Development of real-time collaboration system for e-book writing

This paper proposes a system design of real-time collaboration platform which is created as an alternative solution to produce e-book using collaborative writing framework by Lowry et al. The system is designed to assists a group of authors to collaborate on writing, editing, reviewing, and revising document as a digital book across multiple devices in real-time interaction using internet network. The system integrates tools and collaborative writing framework in a web application as customizable workflow that guide writer team producing their work in effective and efficient means.