Books as Code: Writing and Publishing Books with Markdown and Git

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Learn how PubDown turns Markdown and Git into a complete book publishing workflow, generating print-ready PDFs and EPUBs for KDP and other platforms.
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PubDown is a simple open-source publishing tool that lets you treat a book like a software project. Write your chapters in Markdown, define the book structure and metadata in YAML, and manage the entire project with Git and GitHub—including version history, branches, collaborative writing, and reviews. With a single build command, PubDown turns your sources into print-ready PDF and EPUB files suitable for Amazon KDP, Google Play Books, Apple Books, Lulu, and other publishing platforms. It can also import existing DOCX manuscripts and convert them into structured Markdown projects.