Pubsoft is a

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publishing platform headquartered in

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. It serves as the publishing engine for Kbuuk, LLC, a

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software company that provides digital conversion, distribution and marketing services for authors. Pubsoft is designed to allow publishers to create and manage an online eBook store for direct consumer sales. Publishers can also use Pubsoft to handle

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, deliver eBooks to mobile devices, manage author and reader relationships and distribute royalties through an administrative portal that uses

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. The Pubsoft system also provides book-level analytics designed to help publishers and authors move toward data-driven publishing. Originally designed for the trade publishing sector, the Pubsoft system is currently used for a variety of applications by agencies,

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and creative writing programs, enterprises, industry experts and religious organizations. Pubsoft allows companies to manage content by uploading documents and converting them to

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3.0 eBooks, which can then be read in a web browser or on an

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device. Through the Pubsoft backend system, an administrator or instructor can then evaluate reading progress and engagement, as well as assess reading comprehension through customized quizzes.

History

Pubsoft was founded and launched in 2012 by CEO Isaac Shi and COO Dougal Cameron.

Technology

Pubsoft is a multi-tenant

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(SaaS) eBook publishing platform that is designed to support digital publishing industry standard

3.0, an

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-based eBook content standard. Pubsoft utilizes a Model View Controller (MVC) design pattern, and the system contains three layers: a database layer created in

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, a business logic layer built on a

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and a responsive user interface layer created with

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and CSS3. As an enterprise-grade application, the Pubsoft database is built on a relationship schema compatible with Boyce-Codd Normal Form (BCNF), which is designed to ensure scalability, reliability and data integrity. The Pubsoft SaaS application is deployed on

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and

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References

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