El Free software it is becoming more powerful and better seen. Such is the case that in the publishing world, the main publishing tools are Free Software. The program Sigil together with other tools such as the word processor or a TeX processor They have taken over more than one desk, but they are not the only ones. book type is hitting harder and harder, reaching the usage quotas of Sigil slowly. book type It is a program of sourcefabric that is released under AGPL v3 license and that is presented as an alternative to Sigil.
The main feature of book type is that it works on a server and not on a normal PC, so we can use it through a web browser from any PC and it is ideal for publications that have several authors or several collaborators. book type records the sessions of each one, the interventions, etc ... so that we can have a single version or manuscript of the work without having to mess around. In addition, once the work is finished, we can choose what format we want to have, if we want to print the book, we will have an ideal type of format to take it to the press, if on the contrary we want to publish it in ebook format, book type recognizes several formats, including mobi, epub and pdf so we could publish it on any self-publishing platform, how Kindle Publishing, Writting Life or Tagus Self-Publishing, the one we want.
A server, Booktype ... will be a lot of trouble and expensive
The operation of book type Although it sounds difficult, it is very easy. Once we download the code, we go to our server and install it there. After installation we will have a personal address to access book typeEg www.mydomain.com/booktype, we write it in our browser and it is ready to go, as if it were a Facebook or a Twitter account, with the exception that all personal or work-related data that we have will not be seen or managed by anyone that we are not.
Opinion
The publishing world has more and more expenses and less income. book type just like it does Sigil, represents a great tool for professional or non-professional publishing. I like the case of Booktype because it allows works with collaborations or with several authors without the process being cumbersome or creating too many versions. Also around it, as with almost all Free Software, a large community has been created that helps to constantly improve the software. The negative point that I would put book type is the short list of platforms it uses. At the moment book type only works for Gnu / Linux and MacOS but not for Windows or Solaris or BSD even though book type you need Apache, a software that is on all these platforms. But I imagine that with the community behind it, there will soon be a version for these platforms. If you are interested in the publishing world or need to create educational materials, take a look at Booktype, it may be your tool.
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