ONCE — Writebook
Blogging and posting on social is easy. But why is it so hard to publish a whole book on the web? It’s not anymore. Writebook is remarkably simple software that allows you to publish text and pictures in a simple, browsable online book format.
We put together a simple Writebook manual to walk you through the steps. All in, install and set up should take just about 10 minutes or so.
And, here’s a video showing how easy it is to install Campfire, the other product we make that works the same way. Installing Writebook follows the same process as Campfire.
Yes, Writebook is free for real. It’s our way to give back and encourage people to publish independently on the web. You’ll have to host the software on your own server, but Writebook itself is entirely free. Besides the finished software, you also get all the Rails code so you can see how we built it.
Writebook isn’t an app or service someone else runs. It’s a fully independent system that you run and host yourself. That means you install it on a server you own (or rent) and control. It requires some technical knowledge, but all-in-all it’s quite easy. If you can register a domain name, and change the DNS for that domain name, you can almost certainly handle the install and hosting process for Writebook.
