<story><title>How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>vram22</author><text>Other ebook creation &amp;#x2F; selling options:&lt;p&gt;Leanpub: &lt;a href=&quot;https://leanpub.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;leanpub.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Softcover: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.softcover.io/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.softcover.io&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;
By Michael Hartl, author of the Rails tutorial.&lt;p&gt;Lulu: &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.lulu.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; is still around too, originally by the creator of Red Hat.&lt;p&gt;O&amp;#x27;Reilly Atlas: &lt;a href=&quot;https://atlas.oreilly.com/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;atlas.oreilly.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt; - new; may be only for books you write with them as publisher, not sure.&lt;p&gt;There must be some others too.</text></comment>
<story><title>How I made the print and eBook versions of my web book</title><url>http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2014/11/03/bringing-my-web-book-to-print-and-ebook/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>netcan</author><text>This is the sort of stuff that was mainly in the realm of publishers until recently. I&amp;#x27;m always curious about the degree to which what publishers, record labels and similar industries do is being parceled out to smaller services.&lt;p&gt;When writers write about why they need publishers, they usually mention editing, marketing &amp;amp; advances. I imagine for many people marketing is not very relevant. Either the publishers will not do much of it anyway or the author has access to an audience himself. Advances are also (I imagine) not that important to many authors. Maybe some need the commitment as part of their process but purely as a way of financing, I don&amp;#x27;t see an insurmountable requirement that this be bundled with the other things they do. Most authors are not going to make money anyway so a small chunk now or a slightly larger trickle later doesn&amp;#x27;t matter much either way.&lt;p&gt;Is there a thriving industry of editors for hire? People who will take raw text and turn it into books?&lt;p&gt;What&amp;#x27;s the state of this ecosystem today?</text></comment>