Start a Libbook
Our authoring tools allow you to create your next project all online for free, save and track your versions, then publish to the universe.
Build your team
Create your own writing team! Invite your friends and/or construct a team from the Libboo community of top editors, illustrators, proof-readers, researchers, and promoters. You can allocate them shares of any royalties (if you decide to put it for sale) and
you - the team leader - retain 100% of the copyright.
Publish your work
Our self-publishing engine will walk you through a few easy steps to format your work. Libboo will automatically prepare your content into PDF, ePub, XHTML for all major E-readers - all for
Free.
Team Publish your Libbook
You're in control - at the click of a button, you can choose how you would like your Libbook to be available and Libboo will do all the dirty work in getting it there:
✔ Team Publish and put on sale worldwide at Amazon and Barnes & Noble
✔ Have your Libbook downloadable for free to all devices on Libboo.com
✔ Enable your Libbook to be read online for free only
Promote it!
Now tell the world! Find a promoter or invite a marketer to your team to gain the exposure you need. Get people to interact with your Libbook, find reviewers, bloggers and friends to pass along your content. Connect with social media like Facebook and Twitter, and manage your campaign from Libboo.
If you decided to sell it...
Libboo will automatically manage all of your copyright and royalties for you and your team, from every single store-front you decided to distribute to via Libboo, and be sure each team member gets paid their allocated share.
Writing on Libboo uses the 'Editorial' model of creating content. This means that within each Team (even a team of 1), the Editor has the only version of the content that will ever be published to the public. This essentially means that each and every team member has their own unique version of their Libbook and can only modify their own copy. Each team member however has full read-only access to what each other team member has written, allowing each team member (and importantly the Editor) to copy/paste from each others' work into their own.
To get to the writing screen, click on the 'Edit' button on the left side menu when inside your Manage Book page.
While writing on Libboo, you can easily bring up a team member's version by clicking on the "Add Version" button and selecting the person whose version you'd like to see. You can add as many versions as you like from as many people (including any of your old versions) as you like.
To see more about Voting in a Libbook, click here:
What are Actions?
To see more about formatting your Libbook, click here:
How do I format my Libbook?
Actions are the way in which an Author makes executive decisions regarding what happens to any given Libbook. Actions are started by the Author whereby a 75% or more voting 'Yes' will see that Action happen. Types of Actions available to Authors vary depending upon the status of the Libbook. However all successful Actions are binding and the outcome of that Action will always be enforced.
Publishing on Libboo is easy! When in the
Manage page for the Libbook you'd like to publish, just click the 'Publish' button. If you cannot see the 'Publish' button, then it means you are not the
Author of the Libbook. If you can see the 'Publish' button but it is grayed out, hover over the button and a message will pop-up telling you why you cannot publish.
If you are the only team member, your Libbook will publish immediately. If you are not, then as the Author you will be starting an
Action. Once that Action completes, your Libbook will be published on Libboo and automatically generate all the major file formats for most e-readers.
Once you have
Published on Libboo, your Libbook will have it's own unique page on Libboo (for example:
www.libboo.com/read/food-a-bbq-sauce-recipe.) From there, anyone can read your Libbook online for free! Awesome, eh? However only signed-up and verified members can download Libbooks to their e-reader.
Any member of Libboo will be able to comment, share, review and promote your Libbook. The more interactions your Libbook has with the community, the higher your Libbook will be ranked and the more likely your Libbook will end up being seen by others.
You can Manage a published Libbook just like an unpublished one (although the options may be different).
For details on how to format your Libbook, please see this help question:
How do I use the Edit screen?
A Libbook is the generic term for any piece of writing that gets created and then published for free on Libboo.
Libbooks can be written collaboratively in teams, or written solo by one person. Libbooks can be of any kind: stories, powems, non-fiction, articles, journals etc. etc. Libboo is a free place to create any kind of written piece to share with the world.
The copyright for each Libbook is owned by the team that creates it. The licensing for each books is goverened by the following licence from the Creative Commons: 'This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.'
Managing a Libbook is the process of controlling what happens to your written content on Libboo. What you can do depends upon what your role is within the Libbook.
You can manage any of your Libbooks by clicking "Write" from the "Navigate" menu, and then clicking the "Manage" button next to the Libbook you'd like to manage.
The Author (the person who started the Libbook) has the option to change the fundamental attributes of a Libbook and ultimately decides when to publish.
Anyone can preview the Libbook by pressing the 'Preview' button.
You can filter the events feed to show only certain events by clicking on what you'd like to see from the 'Show' menu.
