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Taipei’s (Taiwan’s capital) newly elected mayor, Ko Wen-Je, used gitbook to successfuly publish his campain’s official “whitebook”.

After the native editor for GitBook, we are now releasing a web editor fully integrated with the GitBook platform and GitHub.

Readers can now contact authors directly from their books’ homepages.

Authors can now customize their book’s homepage with personalized branding and custom domain names.

Authors can now create automated messages that will be sent to every new reader of a paid book.

GitBook (1.1.0) now supports KaTeX as a replacement to MathJax, giving you beautiful pre-rendered math that is eBook compatible!

GitBook now accepts PayPal in addition to credit cards for books purchases and authors can now withdraw their profits through PayPal.

GitHub just makes it easier and much faster to set up a GitBook when creating a repository.