Booktype is developed by Sourcefabric but it is open source and it is for you. The more people that take control of their publishing needs and use and extend Booktype the more powerful it will become. It will open up great opportunities for everyone. We hope you will take Booktype and show us what this future looks like.
With Booktype you can make beautiful printed books and ebooks. You can start new books, add content, edit, proof, illustrate, design, and output to ebooks and print on demand without having to leave the browser. This changes everything - books become something you can make, publishing becomes something you or your organisation can do.
Booktype brings book production to the web opening the space for new distributed social processes to evolve around the production of books so books can be created, used and reused in new and exciting ways.
We strongly believe there is a very bright future for books and new models for publishing and we believe it is up to you to define what this future is. We built an extremely powerful open source tool to help you do this. Booktype is flexible to deploy, can be extended and customised, and will forever live in the public domain.
You can use Booktype in a closed business environment for the production of inhouse materials, online for the production of open educational resources, or on the 'open web' for community based production - and any point in between. Booktype gives you the power to change the way books are made, create exciting business new opportunities, and change publishing forever.
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Booktype.com vs Booktype.org
I really think Booktype can work for a lot of people. But I also think that a lot of people do not have the expertise to get the software running. Are there plans to operate like Wordpress.com / Wordpress.org ? So I can make an online "Booktype.com" version, or install the "Booktype.org" software on my own server?
Bernard | February 17, 2012
All these will be useful when it is available on ALL operating systems and will not force anyone to use Ubuntu. Until then, it is impossible for me to use it.
Daniela | February 19, 2012
Creative Commons licnesing option?
Great project! May I work with your team to (a) get a Creative Commons (CC) licnese on your web site and, more important, allow Booktype users to openly license their books with a CC licenses of their choice? http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ You have open source software ... it's a short step to allow for openly licensed content. Happy to assist! Cable Green, PhD Director of Global Learning Creative Commons cable@creativecommons.org
Cable Green | February 20, 2012
Hi Bernard, Thanks for the question! This is something we're looking into. Booktype is a very large piece of software and is potentially not right for everybody (those who only wish to publish a few books for instance). The ability to install the software on your own server is there now if you have the expertise. The ability to buy a cloud hosted 'Pro' version (like our own Airtime Pro is something we're looking at carefully.
@Bernard | February 21, 2012
Hi Daniela, Thanks for the feedback. Booktype is supported on Unix systems like Debian and Ubuntu, and also on an OSX server. so you're not tied into an operating system. Which system are you interested in installing it on? Cross platform support is an enormous task, but we're always happy to look at new platforms to support. What would you like to use Booktype for?
@Daniela | February 21, 2012
Thanks Cable - Booktype allows you to license your book with any license imaginable. This is all configurable when you install the platform. It's remix and reuse options are in fact built entirely with open content in mind. This is where we think Booktype has a huge amount of potential to open up new ways of working together.
Creative Commons | February 21, 2012
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