<p>Sophie is a free, creative commons authoring tool from the Institute for the Future of the Book and the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts that enables collaboration, reading and publication. Its highlights include an authoring environment that allows users to create complex networked multimedia documents, a reader than opens books in a browser without downloading additional software, comment frames for adding discussions within books, digital libraries compatible with the Sophe iPad app, timeline creation and collaborative book creation. As of version 2.1, Sophie includes HTML5 export for data integrating multimedia content and for use on a wide variety of devices.</p>