Just released version 0.1.3 of Bookshop, an open source book publishing framework for building pdf/(e)books based on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Bookshop is built in Ruby.

A Conceptual Overview of Bookshop and HTML/CSS/JS Publishing Toolchains.

Version feature adds:
* Kindle support (for Mac, Linux, Windows)
* ePub validation support
* Verbose output for PrinceXML pdf build

Official News Release
We at BlueHead Publishing just released our first public release of bookshop. Bookshop is a an open-source ruby-based book development and publishing framework for authors, editors, publishers and coders in today's publishing industry. Bookshop provides best-practices for developing your books in HTML/CSS/JS, allowing them to be transformed into potentially any book format (Print-PDF, PDF, mobi, ePub, etc.).

I just launched version 0.1.0 of bookshop. Bookshop is a book publishing framework for publishers, editors, and coders in today's publishing industry. bookshop provides a framework for developing books using well-known web languages like HTML/CSS.

Bookshop, a publishing framework for html-to-(e)book/pdf toolchains, just added ERB functionality allowing users to use ERB for their source documents rather than just plain HTML/CSS.

We are gunnin' for our Jan 1st 0.1.0 release! Thanks to everyone for testing bookshop out!

I just finished and released a complete rewrite of the bookshop gem. bookshop is a publishing framework for html-to-(e)book toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their html-to-(e)book (print-pdf, epub, mobi, etc.) flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices, standards and tools from the start.

So feel free to... gem install bookshop

This is a major rewrite/switch from the last bookshop release. We've dropped docbook/xml/xslt/fop as our toolchain and moved to html/css/javascript/boom-microformat/wkhtmltopdf as our toolchain.

There are a number of reasons for this, but primarily we needed a developing environment for our publishing house that didn't suck as bad as working with docbook/xml/xslt/fop/java. Enter html/css/javascript for the source, with boom-microformat for the structural markup, and wkhtmltopdf for the pdf processing.

I just published an early release of our gem, bookshop, an open-source Ruby-based framework for DocBook toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their DocBook-to-Output flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices from the get-go. Reflections, Suggestions, and Assinine Comments Welcome!

The Goal: To go from zero-to-exporting (pdfs, epub or whatever) from your DocBook source files in under 10 minutes.
To Install: sudo gem install bookshop
To Build a New PDF Book: bookshop build pdf