Hello Product Hunt! Founder of Reedsy here, happy to respond to any question you might have about the Reedsy Book Editor. You can also read more about how we built it here: http://blog.reedsy.com/reedsy-bo...
You can see a sample of a formatted book here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/789vh8...
@emmanuelnataf Looks fantastic! Two questions for ya ->
1. Is there any way to import content from an RSS feed?
2. Is there a read-time feature? I like to know how long a chapter would take average readers, so that I can balance the book out into manageable chunks.
@msitver Hello Michael,
1- We plan to add import from most traditional text files (doc, rtf, etc.) but not from an RSS feed at the moment (first time we see demand for it). We'll have a think though, an RSS feed is pretty straightforward to import!
2- Statistics/analytics about the book is planned. So a lot of more than read-time is coming :).
@emmanuelnataf homepage looks great. I haven't signed up for a trial, but I have a few questions:
1. Is it possible to insert images inline? I write mostly technical books with lots of screenshots.
2. What does code formatting look like? (as in, can I format text "as code")
3. Why no MOBI export?
@mijustin
1- Yes, just drag and drop.
2- We haven't added that for now. What would you be interested to see though?
3- We could add it but felt it wasn't necessary for now: adding your epub to KDP gives you a MOBI that works perfectly. Do you feel it's missing?
I'm a big fan of Reedsy. The publishing industry continues to see disruption from various places, including Reedsy. Authors, of significant popularity, are coming from everywhere, and Reedsy provides a great platform for them to now write, design and publish their books. The book editor is one more step to helping authors get their content into the world. Disclosure: I'm an investor in Reedsy.
@dredurr Many things:
1- The Reedsy Book Editor is web-based with auto-backups
2- We control the formatting of the book from the very beginning to save a lot of time once the book is ready for publication. Scrivener is an interesting tool to work on the storyline but it's a real pain in the ass to get a good epub/PDF file for distribution from it.
3- Scrivener doesn't really work for book editing. Reedsy will soon add Google Docs-like features for live track-changes, commenting, etc.
Wow this is so cool!
I word surrounded by a lot of writers and I always pity them when I take a glance at all the outdated tools they use for production (cough MS Word cough).
I'll be sure to share this with all of them!
@noxowe We built Reedsy for a more "mainsteam" market: anyone with absolutely no technical skills can use it and get a book formatted the way a Penguin would do it. Gitbook is closer to Leanpub and better fitted for technical books that are continuously updated.
Think of Reedsy as a medium for books with some of the collaborative features of a Google Docs. Versioning has already been built but not released yet; it will come in the coming weeks.
@emmanuelnataf Thanks for your fast response. This is a huge plus :)
If you have versioning, I would love to try Reedsy, just you know, I'm a developer :D
@casielane Yes Casie! When downloading the PDF file of your book, you will get both a digital-ready version for online distribution and one that you can send to a printer.
This is also why we are working with IngramSpark: you can create a perfectly formatted file on Reedsy and then using for print-on-demand on Ingram :).
You can see a sample of a formatted book here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/789vh8...
I love the concept but when I joined and tried to create my first book I keep winding up in the marketplace instead of the book editor. What gives? Shouldn't we create our book first then go to the marketplace when it's done or when we want to hire someone? Something smells fishy here.
@paisano Hello Paisano, I believe my team has been in touch. But basically since the editor is completely new we haven't changed the redirection yet. Just go into "My Books" in the sidebar to start writing. Hope this helps!
@emmanuelnataf yes your support team helped right away. It was a firewall issue for me. Not a glitch on your part. I'm loving it... thanks! I spoke to the celtx.com team long ago when they decided not to support books or novels anymore to focus only on screenplays and told them that someone else would come along to do it and sure enough here you are. Thanks!
Very big fans of Reedsy -- the team, their products, everything. I know first-hand as an author that writing and formatting a book is not as simple as opening Microsoft Word. But Reedsy is intent on simplifying things so that it can become as simple as that.
@helencrozier the Reedsy Book Editor is completely free. Authors and publishers only pay when they contract for services; Reedsy charges a 10% commission fee to both clients and professionals.
wo wo wo . Seriously, I am loving it. I have started writing a book months ago and I think this is the place where I am gonna finish it. It got everything what an author needs, Editor, help from other professionals..... its so COOOOL!
So far I'm pretty excited about this product! It will be a great asset for POD services, like Createspace. Although, as far as I can see you can't use it to create a Word Doc which means I can't use it for Smashwords, which does make me a little sad. So probably will still write my book in Google Docs and then copy it to Reedsy, use it for formatting. Then copy back to Google Docs so I can transfer it to Word and then format it for Smashwords.
Had signed up for Reedsy some time back. Was in search for a service that'd help me create a book out of my blog. I was hoping to import the Wordpress XML to the editor. Is it part of the roadmap for the product? Any possibility that I perhaps missed the feature?
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