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Way to go! Would you consider a blog post about the self-publishing experience?
by freediver 7y ago
Way to go! Would you consider a blog post about the self-publishing experience?
- btbytes 7y agoAs user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the help of Pandoc). You can see that the example chapter of this book looks exactly like the bookdown output[2]. The bookdown PDF explains in detail how to use Rmd+RStudio+R+Pandoc+Markdown to publish this. [1]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/ [2]: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/bookdown.pdf https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/bookdown.pdf
- bweber 7y agoHere's the complete source for the last text I authored using this pipeline: https://github.com/bgweber/StartupDataScience/tree/master/book https://github.com/bgweber/StartupDataScience/tree/master/bo... You can use the same tooling to create an epub output, but the formatting will be substantially different.
- bweber 7y agoI might do one of the trade-offs between self-publishing and working with a publisher. With Kindle Direct Publishing, it's pretty straight forward. It's more about the tooling to produce the text and the process of using Kindle Direct.