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The idea behind Booktype and Objavi is to support as many different types of output formats as possible and have the ability to create high quality outcomes for each from a single source document. Objavi started out as a part of the Booktype project, where it's role was making PDFs and EPUBs from books created inside the Booktype editor.
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BookJS has been developed by Johannes Wilm, one of the core Booktype developers. What it does is very simple - you can add the javascript to any HTML page and it will format it like a book - directly in the browser. You can see page numbers, the table of contents, a title page, and left and right breaking pages etc. There is a very simple example of it in action here: http://sourcefabric.github.com/BookJS/
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We are building out the Booktype development community. There are many new ways to get involved on Github as well as the forums for more direct conversation about the tool Booktype.
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Publishers, newspapers, print-on-demand services, educators... breathe a sigh of relief. Booktype Pro is here! No more lost manuscripts, overwritten Word files, awkward wikis or cumbersome CMSes. Replace all that hassle with a free, cloud-based service you can get started with right away.
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Published for the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012, the Booktype magazine looks at publishing, epubs, e-books, print-on-demand, open education resources and more.
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Just two weeks until the Frankfurt Book Fair 2012. Booktype will be there the whole week and we would love if you come visit us. Check out the Tools of Change Conference and the Sparks Stage for our presentations and the Innovation hall where we will have a booth with our magazines for you.
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Sourcefabric USB sticks are preloaded with all our software. Buying one of these sticks will help Sourcefabric and also allows you to easiiy test Newscoop, Airtime or Booktype open source software for independent news.
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Siyavula makes free textbooks for students in South Africa through online collaborative writing. The Booktype software enables community contributions and improves the process of publishing whether it is online or in print formats.
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WYSIWHAT? was a week of unconferencing and development workshops at Sourcefabric in Berlin that brought folks from Newscoop, Booktype, Superdesk, OERPUB, Connexions and Siyavula together to discuss the future of the WYSIWYG editor.
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Collaboration on a book is a normal part of writing and producing a book, but there are several work models that a writer can choose from. Adam Hyde discusses the spectrum of collaborative book publishing.
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Creating spotless book design is easier than you think. We will learn how to do this using the coding language CSS and the open source software Booktype.
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Hosting an academic workshop on open source software, Booktype, opens up the conversation about book publishing in a digital environment.
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