| Booktype | |
|---|---|
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| Developer | Sourcefabric |
| Initial release | 14 February 2012 (2012-02-14) |
| Stable release | 2.3 / 15 November 2017; 8 years ago (2017-11-15) |
| 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 afree andopen source[1] software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books toPDF,ePub,.mobi, andHTML formats.[2][3] It was launched bySourcefabric in February 2012 when Booktype evolved from the Booki software, which powersFLOSS Manuals.[4][5]
In March 2015 it was announced thatAmnesty 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 aTransifex project.[7]
While Booktype is open source software, it also exports books to the proprietarydesktop publishing softwareAdobe InDesign via the ICML markup language.[8]
Facilitators of thebook 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]
Amnesty International has been using Booktype for their annual reports three years in a row in 2014/2015, 2015/2016[11] and 2016/2017.[12]Books on Demand [de]), the European market and technology leader for digital book publications use Booktype branded as easyEditor for their self-publishing service.[13] The Berlin-based publishermikrotext uses Booktype for their entire catalogue.[14]
In 2016, Booktype was shortlisted for the contentSHIFT innovation award of theFrankfurt Book Fair but did not win.[15]
In 2017, Booktype won the Neuland 2.0 jury award for innovation in media and book publishing at theLeipzig Book Fair.[16]
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