Ryuzine™ is a family of webapps built on HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript designed to deliver a rich “app experience” publishing platform to mobile and desktop browser. Because they run inside the web browser there is no native app to download and install, no app store needed, no DRM, and the “responsive” interface adapts to different screen sizes allowing you to publish once for multiple platforms. The Ryuzine family of webapps includes:
Ryuzine Reader – a publication format that doesn’t require a separate e-reader app because the browser you already use is the e-reader. It offers numerous features including multiple bookmarks, font size adjustment, high-contrast and sepia page color options, integrated “mobile style” advertising options, alternate views, and highly customizable User Interface through a simple “theme” file plus targeting different platforms with different themes. Ryuzine publications can be hosted “in the cloud” on any website, packaged into archives for distribution as downloads for offline reading, or packaged as a native Android app1.
Ryuzine Rack – a “newsstand” style webapp designed to make it easy to promote your Ryuzine publications (or anything else you want to promote). The stand-alone version uses simple HTML files for the “catalogs” of items, can host unlimited additional catalogs organized however the publisher wants (different titles, years, languages – it’s up to you!), user defined “Reading List” feature, items which can be sorted by multiple aspects, and an animated “promotion” carousel. Building the data catalogs for the “stand alone” version is really easy with Ryuzine Writer and the Ryuzine Press Plugin (see below) also has a utility for WordPress-powered catalogs.
Ryuzine Writer – a powerful cross-platform, cross-browser “authoring” webapp for creating Ryuzine publications, custom configuration files, and Ryuzine Rack data catalogs. Compose from scratch in the rich-text editor, start with the Template Wizard, or import and edit existing files. There is also a multi-device “simulator” in which you can see how your publication will look and work across a variety of screen sizes. Ryuzine Writer works in most modern desktop browsers.
Ryuzine Press – a plugin for WordPress blog sites which “bridges” the blog content to a Ryuzine installation on the same server. Create unlimited “editions” from your blog content presented in the engaging Ryuzine format. Promote your editions – and other items – with the (optional) bundled version of Ryuzine Rack. The Ryuzine Press Plugin replaces Ryuzine Writer with the WordPress backend for creating, editing, and organizing your content. It is also compatible with the ComicPress, Easel, and Webcomic plugins for building dynamic online comic books and manga from your existing WordPress-powered webcomic archives.
This manual covers authoring with Ryuzine Press for publishers creating publications and newsstands created from curated selections of WordPress blog posts. This manual is not intended for end users of Ryuzine Reader, it is intended for authors and publishers. All of the Ryuzine products are now free, open source software released under either the Mozilla Public License 2.0 or GNU General Public License 3.0.