Second of the Technology Business Models. Fabienne Riener presents Sourcefabric, an open source publishing platform for print and digital books.

1. Hi, this is Sourcefabric
Fabienne Riener / @sourcefabienne

2. Sourcefabric...
....provides content creators with open source software,
expertise and support to produce quality content and
deliver it through whatever channels.
Create Once Publish Everywhere

3. Sourcefabric...
Officially founded in 2010, but founders have been
active since the beginning of time
Started in the world of Journalism
Non-profit status, registered in the Czech Republic
For-profit sister company, being registered in
Germany this month

4. In numbers...
60 Team members present in 12 Countries
50,000 downloads annually from over 120 countries
7 Awards
we speak 25 Languages
4 Projects / Products

5. Win
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• Lovie Awards, 2012 r
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• Guardian Digital Innovation Award, 2012 ne r
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• Future 10, Perugia International Journalism Festival, 2012 ner
• African News Innovation Challenge, 2012 Win
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• Knight-Batten Innovations in Journalism, 2011
• Packt Open Source Media Awards, 2011 Fina
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7 Awards
• Google Ashoka ChangeMakers Award, 2011 Fina
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6. 4 Projects / Products

7. Q: But how do we make money when it’s all
open source?
A: SERVICES
...professional support & managed hosting
...custom developments, workflow integration
...consultation, concepts, design
(multi-channel publishing, workflows, online/print products, business models etc.)
...workshops, training
... commercial spin-offs

8. Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser

9. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Authors
Publishers
Print on Demand Services
Universities / Academic Publishing
Corporate Businesses

10. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Authors
individual books (alone or with others)
hosting & support -- booktype.pro
structure & design -- custom templates

11. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Publishers
optimise and speed up workflow
workflow integration (workflow, content archive, output etc.)
costum feature developments
archive (for some)
output specifics
consultancy, training, documentation

12. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Self-Publishing & Print on Demand Services
add ‘write your book’ to ‘publish your book’
workflow integration
custom developments (templates, publishing wizards etc.)
templates, design etc.

13. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Universities / Academic Publishing
1) collaborative content creation (thesis, teaching materials etc.)
2) content archive (remix, reuse, editions)
training, documentation
custom developments

14. Who is Booktype for?
Collaborative creation of books & ebooks in the browser
Corporate Businesses
1) creation of corporate documentation (policies etc.)
2) archive management (remix, reuse, editions, versions)
custom developments
templates, design
training, documentation

15. Q: What else is important?
A: COMMUNITY => ECOSYSTEM
...other developers *speed up development*
...third party implementors *build up user base*
...b2b partners *access to markets*
THE MORE PEOPLE LOVE OUR TOOLS, THE BETTER FOR US

16. Q: But how do we make money when it’s all
open source?
A: SERVICES
...professional support & managed hosting
...custom developments, workflow integration
...consultation, concepts, design
(multi-channel publishing, workflows, online/print products, business models etc.)
...workshops, training
... commercial spin-offs

17. Grazie!
fabienne.riener@sourcefabric.org // @sourcefabienne