Booktype is a free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to PDF, ePub,

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formats. It was launched by Sourcefabric in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, which powers FLOSS Manuals. 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. 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 Adobe InDesign via the ICML markup language. 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". Booktype is no longer under development.

Organisations using Booktype

Amnesty International 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

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Source code
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