Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Etherbox

Description

Etherbox is a constellation of collective tools and practices that developed in and around Constant. The current release of Etherbox consists of Apache HTTP server, Etherpad-lite, Pandoc, Imagemagick, Etherdump.

Developer

Constant

Project page

https://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/etherbox/manual.html#episode-1-etherbox

Code repository

http://networksofonesown.constantvzw.org/01/etherbox-latest.zip

Import / ingest formats

Etherpad

Output formats

HTML, PDF

Platform status

no longer maintained

Practices

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...

Designing

In experimental book design, design is not reducible to aesthetics but an integral part of the story. Closely intertwined, design and writing tend...