GitBook
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GitBook is a tool for building beautiful books using Git and Markdown. It can generate your book into multiple formats:
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- Freemium (Subscription)
- Proprietary (Apache-2.0)
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- Online
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What is GitBook?
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Developed by
Aaron O'Mullan, Samy Pessé Licensing
Proprietary (Apache-2.0) and Freemium product.Pricing
Subscription ranging between $65 and $299 per month + free version with limited functionality.Written in
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Free for unlimited "public book" Able to edit from multiple users Versionning managed (but no, we can't fork ;-) Format supported: PDF, EPUB, MOBI Rich Text supported, with image. Very nice :)
The old version was good, but they created a new version which misses a lot of basic functionality (can not view Markdown source, can not export to PDF). It was a great tool, but it doesn't seem to be maintained anymore.
As it stated, GitBook is great for creating books, as they do not require any special formatting, text/code inclusion and cross-linking. But when it comes to creating documentation (where many people think GitBook is good at), GitBook fails. I've been using it for more than a year as a documentation tool and it is a terrible experience. Our documentation is created in Markdown and the more it grows, the more I am stuck with numerous GitBook limitations. Even creating a link to a document or a page that should be located outside the Summary is a real headache.
Along with Markdown, GitBook supports AsciiDoc that is expected to be a problem solver. However, in GitBook AsciiDoc has an extremely truncated functionality.
The suggested alternatives does different things than GitBook.
GitBook is a tool in which you can create FAQ, Manual, KBs and manage a software documentation collaboratively. Not exactly a book to put on the shelf on download to a kindle, but a live and online documentation site.
All the alternatives listed were more related to books creation and publishing.