Book Oven

An Open, Webby, Book-Publishing Platform

The key insights behind Book Oven were the following:

• publishing a book is (almost always) a collaborative enterprise
• online tools (should) make collaboration on making books easy(er)
• if you build a "book" in the cloud, using structured mark-up, then expression of that book in various forms (print, epub, pdf, mobipocket, html, etc), on various devices (including paper & print) becomes arbitrary, and should be nearly trivial
• further, if the "book" exists in the cloud, then the range of things that can be done with this "book" multiplies significantly
• if a system built on these ideals is implemented well, it will be transformative, both for professional publishing workflows, and for the emergence of a new grassroots of indie publishing.