[flaie]

Good reading! I did learn a lot regarding tools I didn't knew and I will definitely check Reedsy and Scrivener, I did use leanpub which was really good, doing almost everything for me.

The hardest part is about marketing for me, and I am happy that I first wrote the book for me and see the completion as an achievement, I talked with a lot of people who thought it was kind of easy to get rich just writing books, I don't think so, not easily.

Also, it's really tough to promote a book without feeling like you're over-trying to do it, and regarding an IT book, except for a reddit community, or twitter I wouldn't know where to start.

I have even been invited to online conferences, people seemed to be interested (don't think they were faking it), but it generated zero sales :)

[ghaff]

I really like Scrivener for putting together a book from scratch. The downside is that it's mostly a "just you" tool. Once you get into collaboration/outside editing/etc. I find you need to switch to something else. IMO, it's still worth it but I find it's something I use to get to a rough/first draft and then I switch.

[iainctduncan]

Scrivener is the bomb. If it had vim bindings I'd be in heaven. And it's nice to support a small company making a product entirely focused on just being GOOD.