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Ben, I see you started with Google Docs and switched to Scrivener. Did you ever consider writing in Markdown? (That's what we use for Leanpub manuscripts, and
by peterarmstrong 15y ago
Ben, I see you started with Google Docs and switched to Scrivener. Did you ever consider writing in Markdown? (That's what we use for Leanpub manuscripts, and we produce PDF, EPUB and MOBI.) Obviously your book is done; I'm just interested in your feedback on writing tools. (Basically, I'm doing customer development, trying to figure out if you could go back in time and use Leanpub, would you still use Scrivener, etc?)
- bennesvig 15y agoHadn't heard of Markdown until now. I can always be convinced to try something new, but Scrivener was incredibly simple. I can edit and submit an updated version to the Kindle store in 5 minutes (video of that here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puv9zCwrex4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puv9zCwrex4 ). My formatting isn't anything incredible, so if Leanpub could put together a quality conversion I'd consider checking them out.
- peterarmstrong 15y agoIf you email your manuscript to peter@leanpub.com I'll have this done for you so that you can compare. Ideally if you can save it as HTML we can convert it to Markdown automatically. However, if this is a hassle, then send me whatever format you have. The nice thing is that since you're publishing an in-progress book your approach lines up exactly with what we encourage authors to do. When you publish new versions your readers get free updates automatically, etc. We produce files that can be put in the Kindle store, iBookstore, etc and we also sell the PDF, EPUB and MOBI on Leanpub, paying a 90% - 50 cent royalty. Email me if you want any more info...
- mathgladiator 15y agoThanks for turning me on to Leanpub; it looks great for my need. I just wrote a book, and I was going to mess around with my own markdown convert to (something else).