Letterpress allows you to write and publish your own book online with a pretty live-preview WYSIWYG Markdown editor.
Letterpress is a Meteor application that has been built from scratch using test-driven development. You can follow a step-by-step guide of how this was done in the The Meteor Testing Manual.
Click here to see the demo site - in progress, see below for completion details
##Features:
- Landing Page (in progress)
- Configurable Content
- Headings
- Blurb
- Images
- Chapters Preview
- Author(s) Information
- Gumroad Integration
- Mailing List Signup
- Meta Tags for SEO and Sharing
- Configurable Social Media Links
- Configurable Content
- Access Control
- Login
- Admin
- Invite User
- Upgrade / Downgrade User
- Revoke User
- Login
- Chapters
- Add / Remove / Publish / Unpublish
- Markdown Authoring
- Mark as Free, Paid or Premium
- Disqus Integration
- Downloadable Book Formats
- ePub
##Usage
To run Letterpress, clone this repo and type:
meteor --settings settings.json
You must have a settings.json that has the same fields as the default Letterpress settings.json file.
##License Free free to use the code to write and host freely accessible non-commercial books. If you wish to sell your book, please talk to us first and we can agree something reasonable. No seriously, it's really reasonable!