Despite Apple's protestation that the
iBooks Author EULA was misinterpreted, the idea of a book publishing system that
could be used to grab copyright of the prepared text is annoying — like the sort of EULAs that seem to give photo-sharing sites unlimited re-use rights of hosted personal photos. New submitter
rohangarg points out a publishing system which shouldn't have such problems, and is nicely cross-platform besides:
"A new open-source digital writing and publishing platform has been launched by non-profit group Sourcefabric. Booktype allows for collaborative editing and writing of books that can be easily outputted to on-demand print services and eReaders such as the Amazon Kindle, Nook, iPad, and more with a few simple clicks. Booktype source can be found here."
The
online demo also leads to some downloadable examples (as PDFs).