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E-Short is the result of a long cooperation between Books on Demand and Sourcefabric. Tailor-made for BoD, the tool is powered by our free and open software. Sourcefabric believes open code means free speech. It also means smart business.
We threw together a little interactive map of a few of the places where Sourcefabric solutions are making a difference, thanks to input from our community. We couldn't have done it without you.
Last week, we ran a book publishing workshop at Supermarkt in Berlin, Germany and got a bunch of creative people together to publish an open source book.
BookJS is still under heavy development, but over the past nine months it has achieved quite a lot of things that had been impossible until now. Here are some of the most outstanding features that BookJS currently has.
Managed Booktype hosting is available from Sourcefabric, with support for creating both public and private books. If you do not wish to collaborate on writing with authors outside your organization, then having your own Booktype server makes more sense. Also, if you don't have reliable access to the Internet, having your own Booktype server is a practical alternative to cloud-based services. For example, a school with laptops that can connect to each other on a network but not to the Internet may find a local Booktype server valuable.
Booktype took part in this years Frankfurt Book Fair, one of the largest industry and public events dedicated to the world of books. As part of the Digital Innovation Sparks Stage events, Booktype hosted the launch of "Framed Horizons: Student Writing on Nordic Cinema".
In this blog post I will try to show how the web view can be customized with simple template modification. By default, Booktype comes with predefined templates but they can all be easily customized to fit your needs.