The Publishing Operating System
One manuscript.
Every publishing asset.
Nothing lost quietly.
BookFlow turns a structured manuscript into ebooks, print books, courses and translations — preserving context, sources, terminology, versions and provenance, with a person in control at every step.
The parser, the audit and the EPUB export all run in your browser. Your manuscript never leaves the device you opened it on.
| Source | Becomes | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Heading 1 | block · h1 | 12 |
| Heading 2 | block · h2 | 84 |
| Normal | block · para | 4,218 |
| List item | block · li | 96 |
| Footnote ref | block · note | 34 |
The whole process
Fourteen phases, from the first decision to the rights
A book is not one upload. It is a sequence of decisions with an owner and a date on each — investment, manuscript, production, then the catalogue. Every phase below is real work with a named owner, not a progress bar.
You see this bar the moment you sign in. Each phase carries its own checklist, its own owner and the tool that does the work, so “what do I do now” always has one answer.
Đầu tư
F01–F05 · 29 bước- F01
Chiến lược và đầu tư
Chủ dự án · 6 bước
- F02
Nghiên cứu thị trường
Thương mại · 7 bước
- F03
Định vị và hệ sản phẩm
Chủ biên + thương mại · 5 bước
- F04
Tài chính và dòng tiền
Tài chính · 6 bước
- F05
Quyền, hợp đồng và dữ liệu
Quản lý dự án · 5 bước
Nội dung
F06–F09 · 22 bước- F06
Kiến trúc và chương mẫu
Chủ biên · 5 bước
- F07
Bản thảo và công cụ mẫu
Tác giả · 6 bước
- F08
Biên tập và nghiệm thu
Chủ biên + người kiểm chứng · 6 bước
- F09
Dịch và ngôn ngữ
Phụ trách ngôn ngữ · 5 bước · tùy chọn
Sản xuất và phân phối
F10–F12 · 15 bước- F10
Thiết kế và file
Sản xuất · 5 bước
- F11
Sản phẩm bổ sung và audio
Sản xuất + thương mại · 5 bước · tùy chọn
- F12
Phân phối và bán trực tiếp
Thương mại + tài chính · 5 bước
Kinh doanh và danh mục
F13–F14 · 12 bước- F13
Ra mắt và thử 90 ngày
Thương mại · 6 bước
- F14
Danh mục và khai thác quyền
Chủ dự án + toàn đội · 6 bước
The pipeline
Manuscript to published asset
Import is deliberately separated from audit. Parsing takes minutes, audits run in the background, and you can keep editing the whole time.
- 01
Upload DOCX
Checksummed, original kept immutable, nothing overwritten on the way in.
- 02
Controlled import
Parsed in under two minutes. Every transformation is written down in an Import Report before you confirm a single word.
- 03
Core audit
Deterministic checks for duplicates, terminology, numbers, structure and accessibility. Each finding explains why it fired.
- 04
Publishing readiness
Seven explained dimensions per channel, plus the next best action — never a bare score.
- 05
Export EPUB / PDF
Pre-flight, EPUB3 packaging, reproducible artifacts with version-locked previews.
- 06
Course outline
Chapters become modules, sections become lessons, and every lesson keeps its source lineage.
What it answers
The six questions every publisher asks
Did it import correctly? What is wrong? What should I fix first? Is it ready for each channel? What has to be declared on every file? And when the source changes — what is affected, and is it still true?
- Evidence-aware audit
- Every finding links to the passage that caused it, with confidence, reasoning and stated limits. No black-box score.
- Readiness per channel
- EPUB, print PDF and course packages fail differently. You see what each one still needs, separately.
- One source, many outputs
- Ebooks, print books, courses and translations all descend from the same structured manuscript.
- Metadata as system of record
- Titles, ISBNs, descriptions, AI disclosure and accessibility metadata, reused by every export.
- Book-to-course lineage
- When the manuscript changes, you can see which lessons went stale before a student finds them.
- Health after publication
- Time-sensitive claims, broken links and edition drift keep getting checked once the book is live.
Why now
Compliance stopped being optional
Three regulatory forces are turning publishing infrastructure into a mandate — with budgets and deadlines attached.
- Jun 2025
European Accessibility Act
Ebooks sold in the EU must meet WCAG 2.1 AA / EPUB Accessibility. Retailers are already down-ranking non-compliant files.
- Apr 2027
ADA Title II (US)
Public universities must bring all digital course content to WCAG 2.1 AA. Backlists are a mountain of remediation work.
- 2025–26
KDP AI disclosure
Amazon requires disclosure of AI-generated text, images and translations, with enforcement tightening through 2026.
BookFlow produces automated accessibility audits and conformance-tested output. It is not a legal guarantee of WCAG compliance.
Rate card
Plans that grow with your catalogue
Free
$0See it work end to end
- DOCX import + Import Report
- Readiness preview
- Limited Core Audit
- Watermarked preview
Starter
$19per month
- EPUB + PDF export
- Metadata Center
- Front matter builder
- Publishing checklist
- Full Core Audit
Pro
Most chosen$49per month
- Full Readiness Dashboard
- Next Best Action
- Advanced audit packs
- Glossary + Evidence Inbox
- Course Blueprint
Studio
$129per month
- 5 seats + reviewers
- Approval workflow
- Shared templates & glossary
- Batch pre-flight
- Multi-brand
Publisher (from $399/mo) and Education ($15k–100k/yr) plans add SSO, region pinning and LMS connectors — talk to us.
Your book deserves an operating system.
Import a manuscript now — the parser, the audit and the EPUB export all run in your browser.