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Question: What book writing software exists for Max OSX?

Chuck Cheeze — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:27:34 -0800

What book writing software exists for Max OSX?

I want to write a book that will be likely published at Lulu. This will be a book on how to use a specific website building CMS, so it will be a typical instructional book.

I know about Scrivener and am really tempted to give it a try.

I also might just use my copy of Pages.

What else is out there?

By: dead_

dead_ — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:28:24 -0800

Asked before.

By: Chuck Cheeze

Chuck Cheeze — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:29:57 -0800

Ahh sorry - I searched by somehow didn't see that.

By: Lauram

Lauram — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:24:11 -0800

Actually, it's been a couple of years since the question was last asked, so it seems worth asking in the light of new software released since then. I don't think the responses to the earlier question mentioned Scrivener.

I wrote a book in Scrivener and loved it.

By: chunking express

chunking express — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 11:58:47 -0800

Apparently Scrivener is the bomb.

Steven Poole has an interesting read story on his move from Word to Writeroom.

By: borjomi

borjomi — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:57 -0800

I was looking for a good notetaking application and ended up trying out a bunch of book writing software. I settled on Avenir and MacJournal. Avenir is supposedly built for fiction, but you can easily adapt it to your own needs as it's fairly flexible. I use MacJournal for daily writing and quick idea jotting.

By: Chuck Cheeze

Chuck Cheeze — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 09:38:58 -0800

Some really great software out there. I checked a few out and will be going forward with Scrivener, thanks all!