Meet Bookiza—the free and open source book reification framework for the web.

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This site is also available as Superbook if you prefer reading that way. Before you start, it is important to emphasize here that Bookiza is currently in state of great flux and many of its features and options described below are expected to change or be removed completely. Copious amounts of patience is advised.

Wish to contribute? Head over to our repositories on Github.


What is Bookiza?

Bookiza is a book-writing book-making tool.

Create first class books for the web and cut down your publishing and delivery time by half. By half, no less! Bookiza will manage your manuscript smartly and bake-in all the goodness of the web into your book. And all the goodness of a book into your story.

Using Bookiza for developing books is like using any other application framework for developing apps, except here the story and the formatting of the longform i.e. the book is the end goal. You can call it 'book development' for the web, but traditionally, in the physical realm, this art is known as bookbinding. 😇

Print delightful books on web for everyone and not just those who own a Kindle or an iPad. See support information for broader picture.

Who is it for?

Professional writers, comics or magazine makers and artists—ala, people who publish longform regularly.

Bookiza uses the terminal environment (shell) to work. If you're uncomfortable about using shell commands or don't understand what a terminal app is, consider using Bubblin's in-browser book editor instead.

Principles

  1. Random access
  2. Pagewise reference accessibility.
  3. Hard pagination instead of faux.
  4. Intuitive and highly customizable page turns.
  5. Full HTML, CSS and JS support per page.
  6. Line-tracking enabled
  7. Responsive with support from Apple Watch to OLED TVs.

Credits

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