Developer(s) Sourcefabric Operating system | Written in Python | |
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Initial release 14 February 2012 (2012-02-14) Stable release 2.1 / 9 August 2016; 6 months ago (2016-08-09) Available in Albanian, Catalan, English, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish; translatable | ||
Booktype is a free and open source software for authoring, collaborating, editing, and publishing books to PDF, ePub, .mobi, and HTML 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 Transifex project.
Organisations using Booktype
Amnesty International has been using Booktype for their annual reports in 2014/2015 and 2015/2016. Books on Demand), 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.