BlueGriffon EPUB Edition beta1

BlueGriffon EPUB Edition logo I have in front of me right now the beta 1 of BlueGriffon EPUB Edition. That beta is EPUB2-only, no EPUB3 yet. I am going to give that beta1 for tests purposes (blogging allowed, no embargo, redistribution of course forbidden) to a number of selected people in the coming days. Please don't ping me if you don't get an invite, the list of testers is already frozen.

cross-platform Windows, OS X and Linux
powered of course by Mozilla
no proprietary pivot format at all
creates *.epub, opens *.epub, edits *.pub, saves *.epub; of course including if the ebook was not created by BlueGriffon
Web standards compliant
based on BlueGriffon
allows UI-based editing of all metadata
allows UI-based editing of guide, spine and ncx

Let me clarify one detail in case you missed it: this product will not be Open Source and will be fully commercial. The changes to the files already present in the Web editor BlueGriffon (not the EPUB one) will of course be published to fully respect the MPL but will be quite useless since almost all the magic happens in new files.

You can already see a few recent screenshots at http://bluegriffon-epubedition.com (that's a carousel).

Stay tuned !

Update: I also posted a screenshot of BlueGriffon EPUB Edition editing a japanese version of the Qu'ran released as an EPUB2 ebook.

6 comments

1. On Wednesday, June 20 2012, 17:46 by Anonymous

Giving up on open source?

2. On Wednesday, June 20 2012, 17:48 by Daniel Glazman

@Anonymous: for this product, yes. We have always said, from the very beginning, that it would be commercial and closed-source. No other option on such a market if we want to trigger a revenue stream from our hard work, unfortunately.

3. On Thursday, June 21 2012, 11:28 by Loïc d'Anterroches

It looks promising but put a bit more screenshots of the editing parts. The small configuration dialog windows are not making me dream, but the 2 (out of many) screenshots where I can see the edition pan yes.

Any pricing information?

4. On Thursday, June 21 2012, 14:24 by Vladimir

Could hope to be among testers? I'm advisor of some e-publishers in Russia.

5. On Thursday, June 21 2012, 17:09 by zheng

want to join the beta tester,may be translate it into chinese. thank.

email: zheng (at) epubsys.com

6. On Friday, June 22 2012, 21:54 by BBR_67

Bonsoir Daniel,
n'avez vous pas pris du retard par rapport à Sigil 0.5.3 (open source), à Jutoh 1.53 (payant) ou à la magnifique extension Writer2xhtml (open source) pour LibreOffice ou OpenOffice - laquelle fait des epub presque parfaits, sans beaucoup de retouches CSS (avec des tableaux bien formatés) pour les lecteurs sur iOS et Android - ?
Cela fait presque un an que l'annonce de ce logiciel (avec du Epub3) a été faite sur votre site...
Qu'est qui pourrait me faire changer d'avis par rapport aux deux logiciels + l'extension cités ci-dessus ?
Bonne soirée.

BlueGriffon^TM