Booktype is a free and

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software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to

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ePub EPUB is an e-book file format that uses the ".epub" file extension. The term is short for ''electronic publication'' and is sometimes styled ''ePub''. EPUB is supported by many e-readers, and compatible software is available for most smartphones ...

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, and

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formats. It was launched by

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in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, which powers

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. In March 2015 it was announced that

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was using a pre-release version of Booktype 2.0 to publish its Annual Report on the state of human rights, in multiple languages. Booktype interface localizations are crowd-sourced from volunteers in a

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project. While Booktype is open source software, it also exports books to the proprietary

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software

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via the ICML markup language. Facilitators of the

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method - creating a book collaboratively in a short period of time - regard Booktype as a "specialist software for doing book sprints". Booktype is no longer under development.

Organisations using Booktype

has been using Booktype for their annual reports three years in a row in 2014/2015, 2015/2016 and 2016/2017. ), the European market and technology leader for digital book publications use Booktype branded as easyEditor for their self-publishing service. The Berlin-based publisher mikrotext uses Booktype for their entire catalogue.

Nominations and awards

In 2016, Booktype was shortlisted for the contentSHIFT innovation award of the

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but did not win. In 2017, Booktype won the Neuland 2.0 jury award for innovation in media and book publishing at the

Leipzig Book Fair The Leipzig Book Fair (german: Leipziger Buchmesse) is the second largest book fair in Germany after the Frankfurt Book Fair. The fair takes place annually over four days at the Leipzig Trade Fairground in the northern part of Leipzig, Saxony. I ...

References

External links

Source code
Free desktop publishing software 2012 software Software using the GNU AGPL license {{free-software-stub