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Reedsy Book Editor - Professionally designed books in seconds

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Aram Shahinyan
Watched the promo video and tried to check it out. I noticed some onboarding UX issues. When I clicked on "Sign up with Facebok", I was transfered to a page, where the system had already grabbed my data from facebook and asked me to tell more about myself. I do believe most users try to pass this step as fast as possible and start using the product keeping in mind they can always make modifications to their profile info afterwards. I tried to click the continue button a few times, but it was inactive and it wasn't evident that the mandatory fields that should be filled in in order to proceed were the "location" and "password" fields. So it took me 1-2 minutes to figure this out and move on. Good luck!
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@aramiggs Thanks for the feedback! We basically automatically generate author profiles for our users (example: https://reedsy.com/author/michae...) and to make them great from the first second you see Reedsy we ask a few additional questions during the signup. Agreed we could do better with the information pulled from Facebook.
Aram Shahinyan
@emmanuelnataf I think that just highliting the mandatory fields would solve all the problems :)
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@aramiggs Added to the todo list ;). Thanks!
Aram Shahinyan
@emmanuelnataf my pleasure :)
Chez Ackerman
This looks like such a great alternative to something like Work or Pages for writing a book. The versioning is such a nice addition!
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@chezacke Thanks Chez! Enjoy it and I look forward to your feedback!
Sarthak Grover
This is very cool! I see that you allow exporting to ePub format (for Amazon I presume) but would it also have a deeper integration to walk you through the entire ePublishing process on Amazon (or do you see the tool expanding to include that experience)?
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@sarthakgrover At this point we work with several distributors/aggregators so provide perfectly formatted files (Kobo and Ingram) but don't offer distribution services ourselves. Authors and publishers can come, download professionally designed files and then use them with the service they like (there are a lot of players offering distribution services: Draft2Digital, BookBaby, IngramSpark…). Note that the epub files are perfectly compatible with Amazon KDP which convert them into mobi files.
Sarthak Grover
@emmanuelnataf Okay, that is fantastic. The sample book looks really nice! What are your thoughts on media (photographs) etc within the book? Are you going to stay focused on just the writing aspect (which is great!) or is that something you see happening in the future?
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@sarthakgrover So you can already drag and drop images into the editor and it formats them perfectly for a 6" x 9" book (standard American trade book format), same for the ePub file. For very illustrated books (art books), we still recommend to hire a professional typesetter, book interior designer. The Reedsy Book Editor will be perfect for fiction and simple non-fiction work :).
Sarthak Grover
@emmanuelnataf Awesome! This is making me want to write now =) Looking forward to trying it out.
Dan Walker
Everyone is commenting that this looks nice, which it definitely does, but has anyone tried it? I just created an account as I wanted to try out the editor, but I can't even find it? I created my account and I have a 'My Collaborations' in the sidebar, but that just tells me to fill in a profile and link up with social networks etc. Well my book is personal so it's not a collaboration, and I don't really want a profile or to 'connect with others', I just want to write and export - is that not possible? The landing page simply says 'Write, Edit, Export' but I can't figure out step one unless I have to jump through the hoops first? I closed the window and decided to just stick with my normal editor, but would be interested in knowing if I just missed the 'Create Book' icon somewhere...
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@idemonix Hello Dan, it's simply because you signed up as a freelancer and not an author… I have switched your account, just reload Reedsy :).
Dan Walker
@emmanuelnataf Ah ok, I was a bit confused by which to pick (I'm a freelancer that's thinking about writing a book) but to be honest I didn't think it'd have any bearing on the editor so I just kind of rushed through the sign up to get to the meat and potatoes. Will give it another look later, thanks for the reply.
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@idemonix No worries!
Roberto Núñez
I think this is a great tool! I am definitely going to use it. A lot to develop still but it's a good start. O'Reilly developed a similar tool https://atlas.oreilly.com. It has some extra features compared to Reedsy, but they stopped giving access to it. I would love to see Reedsy getting to that point.
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@robernunezz Thanks for the feedback! Agreed, we went for a simpler tool as a start as it'll cover most needs.
Joey Frasier
Looks awesome. Any reason we couldn't use this for shorter form content like White Papers?
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
Joey Frasier
@emmanuelnataf Excellent. I shall give this a try and get back to you!
Emmanuel Nataf
Maker
@joeyfrasier Hehe! Keep us posted, we'd love to see the results!
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