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Think of web content in a CMS. All the assets are in a database and they get spat out through a pipeline giving a formatted end result.

I've never written a book in a DBMS(!) but it seems plausible.

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I honestly doubt that "a DBMS" (especially from the Foxbase era) is really a good choice because formatting, even very basic markdown (titles, bold...) would require custom code or extensive postprocessing.

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