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Ketty Introduces AI Book Designer: Revolutionizing Book Production
▻https://www.robotscooking.com/ketty-ai-designer

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Effortless Book Design with AI

The AI Book Designer introduces a groundbreaking approach to book design by allowing users to style and format their books using simple, intuitive commands. Users can say “make the book look modern”, “make the text more readable” or click on a chapter title and instruct the AI to “add this to the header,” and the changes are applied instantly. This eliminates the need for knowing complex design software or coding, making professional-grade design accessible to everyone.

Where we are headed

As we look towards the future development of the AI Book Designer, there are several ideas we are currently thinking about:

AI-Generated Cover Designs: Generate a range of cover options based on user input.
Collaborative AI Design: Enable multiple users to work on the same book design simultaneously (concurrently). This feature could be particularly useful for larger publishing teams or co-authored projects.
AI-Assisted Image Management: Automatically apply styles and optimize the placement of images within the book layout.

Join the Movement

Coko believes AI has the potential to transform book production, making it accessible and efficient for everyone. By combining open-source code and principles with cutting-edge technology, Coko is paving the way for a new era of automated typesetting and book design.

#Typographie #Coko #Intelligence_artificielle

Editoria — Building a Book in a Browser
▻https://www.pagedmedia.org/editoria-building-a-book-in-a-browser

Paginated outputs remain important to scholarly communications, and are still critical for books like monographs. Even in today’s increasingly digital discovery landscape, many readers of long-form content continue to prefer print, and the ability to cite page numbers continues to be critical to creating good old-fashioned tools like a book index. But producing paginated books from HTML source files that could also be used for generating other types of digital files has always been a challenge, as Nellie McKesson notes in her recent blog post on Hederis.

So, a couple of years ago, the University of California Press and the California Digital Library partnered with Coko to begin an ambitious project to develop a workflow application that would allow books to be built in a browser using entirely open source technologies. Editoria is not the first open source, browser-based book production system that has ever been attempted, but it’s (at least to our knowledge) the first that has attempted to replicate the rigorous production editing process and workflow, which includes styling, copyediting, author review, and proofreading, in a browser-based application.

We borrowed the idea of single-source publishing using HTML source from predecessor applications like Adam Hyde’s Booktype, O’Reilly’s Atlas, and Hugh McGuire’s Pressbooks, all of which use some form of PDF rendering engine (often proprietary) to output beautiful, paginated books in addition to EPUBs and other HTML or XML-based files. Then, we’ve tried to stand on the shoulders of those applications by building in a greater degree of workflow support. It’s an ambitious project, and supporting paginated outputs from a single HTML-based source file, has been a non-trivial aspect of the system’s development.

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▻https://editoria.pub
►https://coko.foundation

#publications_hybrides #prepostprint #web2print #digital-first_publishing