Patent ID: 8463821

Claim:
A computer implemented method for building and publishing online books, comprising: storing a plurality of source files in an online library, each source file produced by one or more authors for one or more books, wherein each book is a singular document that is published in a format readable by a web browser; receiving a selection of a group of the source files stored in the online library to build the book; reading the selected group of the source files from the online library; compiling the selected group of the source files; converting the selected group of the source files to the format readable by the web browser to build the book; publishing the book on a web site; performing a quality analysis of the published book; creating a report describing a result of the quality analysis; archiving the book on an archive server; and at predetermined time intervals without user intervention, repeating the reading, compiling, converting, publishing, performing the quality analysis, creating the report and archiving the book, to provide a latest version of the book, and generating a notification of the report comprising a link to the report to the one or more authors of the book.