Free book publishers software for linux

Pandora is a simple web document and application platform written in Ruby. Pandora Publisher aims to make it easy for a team of people to quickly collaborate on the network and develop custom document components and extensions to meet their specific needs.
Main features:
Easy to install and maintain
- Just unpack the package archive and run under Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. The only prerequisite is Ruby, which you can install following these instructions.
Simple, extensible, and powerful
- Pandora does not require any relational database, but it lets you build your own web applications that can use databases with Ruby and Pandora Box object-oriented application framework.
Textile and Silk Veil formatting for site contents
- There is no need to code web pages in HTML with Pandora. Instead, just use Textile and Silk Veil, which are almost as easy to learn as plain text formatting.
Portable web site contents
- Pandora site contents are stored in a simple format that can be exported, zipped, moved, and viewed anywhere with its built in web server.
User selectable page design and templates
- You can easily customize the appearance of your Pandora site by creating new skins with Ruby, HTML, and CSS.
Integrated user account management functions
- Pandora comes with a built-in user account management functions that perform automated email verification and support a manual or automated registration approval process.
Enhancements:
- A new way to delete existing pages and chapters, a recent changes page, a default sidebar for new books, a trail path attachment indicator, and iconified file links were added.
- A defect that caused an exception when a book is deleted was fixed.
- The documentation was edited.

BookDB project is a Perl/Tk book database.
BookDB is a library database, which can perform searches by title, author, publisher, ISBN, and catalog number. It also allows the user to edit and delete catalog entries, which are stored in an XML format.
It is primarily intended for smaller libraries that do not need to run a complex database system.
Enhancements:
- I am taking this down for the time being. It has been pointed out that there is rather large error in V3. I am working on a new version to correct some mistakes made in V3. In the mean time, here is a copy of V2, which will be backwards compatible with the future installment.

BooKreader is a Linux KDE twin-panel text files viewer specialized for reading e-books.

It supports multiple bookmarks, custom fonts, encoding selection.

The main feature is the reader has two-page style, so it looks like a real book.

Book Layout Generator is a tool that comes handy when printing long documents in a book fashion.

Book Layout Generator tool generates the correct page sequence to print long documents in a book fashion.

You just need to specify how many pages are there in your document and whether to print 2 or 4 pages on each papersheet side (the latter requires cutting the sheets). You can optionally divide the document into sub-volumes and pack them separately. This tool will produce the exact sequence to feed your print dialog with.

If you need to print a book from bottom to top (some books are read from right to left), you can also check the proper option for doing that.

AJAX Book Reader is a complete AJAX client-server application that may be used with a Web browser to display a sequence of text files one page at a time.

The display style is completely controlled by a configuration file. The first application of this is as a book viewer where each chapter resides in a seperate text file.

AJAX Book Reader application is also suitable for any case where it is not practical to show all of the text to be displayed at once in the browser window.

It is assumed there is a directory that contains text files named [book][chapter]#.[ext]
and directory has been assigned to the $shelf variable in .pt-config
and [book] is 1 to N characters to identify a collection of chapters
and [chapter] is the chapter seperator (default=c)
and # is the 0 based chapter number
and [ext] is the extension of the text files (default=.txt)
and each file contains one chapter of text
and there is optionally a chapter index file [book].lis
in the shelf directory where the first line is the title of the book
and the second line is the authors name
and subsequent lines are the chapter names

It is further assumed that read.php contains the div tags < div > with an id of title, where the books title will be placed author, where the authors name will be placed navbar, where the page/chapter navigation controls will be placed page, where the text of the page will be placed

.pt-config should be changed to suit your preferences but there is nothing else especially designed to be user configurable in the other files

Ptk Phone is a small program written in Perl/Tk to be used as an address book.

It handles email addresses and comments as well.