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| Developer(s) | Sourcefabric |
|---|---|
| Initial release | 14 February 2012 |
| Stable release | 2.3
/ 15 November 2017 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Python |
| Operating system | Linux, OS X |
| Available in | Albanian, Catalan, English, Estonian, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian; translatable |
| Type | Bookmaking software |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License v3 |
| Website | booktype |
Booktype is a free and open source[1] software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to PDF, ePub, .mobi, and HTML formats.[2][3] It was launched by Sourcefabric in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, which powers FLOSS Manuals.[4][5]
In March 2015 it was announced that Amnesty International was using a pre-release version of Booktype 2.0 to publish its Annual Report on the state of human rights, in multiple languages.[6]
Booktype interface localizations are crowd-sourced from volunteers in a Transifex project.[7]
While Booktype is open source software, it also exports books to the proprietary desktop publishing software Adobe InDesign via the ICML markup language.[8]
Facilitators of the book sprint method - creating a book collaboratively in a short period of time - regard Booktype as a "specialist software for doing book sprints".[9]
Booktype is no longer under development.[10]
- ^ "Booktype Features".
- ^ "Who's the Patron of eBooks? (FOSOTNTT)".
- ^ "Meet Open-Source eBook Editing/Publishing App 'BookType'".
- ^ "Booktype Launches Crowd-Sourced eBook Tools".
- ^ Charman-Anderson, Suw (14 February 2012). "Booktype: Book collaboration made easy". Forbes.
- ^ "Why Amnesty International uses Booktype 2.0 for report publishing". 25 March 2015.
- ^ "Booktype localization on Transifex".
- ^ "Adobe InDesign integration with Booktype's publishing platform". 16 March 2017.
- ^ "What is a booksprint? And introduction".
- ^ "Sourcefabric Booktype". 9 June 2022.