Don't forget Lyx! In fact, I will take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to the developers and communities of Lyx, BibTex, BibDesk, Tex, Latex, Open Off

Don't forget Lyx! In fact, I will take this opportunity to give a huge thank you to the developers and communities of Lyx, BibTex, BibDesk, Tex, Latex, Open Office, and NeoOffice. With their tools and online documentation, my wife just self-published a book, including a correctly formatted Kindle edition. She is generally not technical, but was able to figure out a workflow that worked for her and produced a really good looking product. I think she dealt directly with "code" exactly once (separating "front matter" from "main matter" in Lyx). Thanks!