Ask HN: How do you author your eBooks in 2017?

I've been using Ulysses, which is a Markdown based text editor for Mac/iOS. I really like it's organizational features and it's export support for various formats. https://ulyssesapp.com/

It's subscription based, $39.99/year, which unlocks is for both Mac and iOS. It's got sync built-in, which is nice for needed to make corrections or updates on the go or to record ideas when I'm out and only have my phone.

I myself don't publish but I've seen some authors use Markdown and [1] GitBooks. Kelsey Hightower wrote Kubernetes: The Hard Way in the same manner [2]. It reads nicely. For publishing, you could look into GumRoad [3]. When I do some technical writing, I personally like to use StackedIt which supports Markdown and allows you to export to PDF with custom layouts.

[1] https://www.gitbook.com [2] https://github.com/kelseyhightower/kubernetes-the-hard-way [3] https://gumroad.com [4] https://stackedit.io

Google Docs, and then look at how to format to the particular store your aiming to sell in

We just use Microsoft Word and follow the correct eBook formatting standards for where we want to publish. Amazon has some good guidelines on what formating it needs for Kindle. We are tempted to use some of the online services for formatting outsourcing.

Awesome thanks I'll checkout Leanpub :)