I recently made a service named Docverter[1] that attacks this from the other end, where you write your book in Markdown or various other markup formats and produce ebook files via pandoc and calibre. It's way more do-it-yourself, but it could be a useful backend for this or other services.
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#32It's black and white and red all over. Please tell me you deliberately chose that color scheme for that reason. You'd be my hero if you did.
Oh it is not so bad..but I agree it needs a little tweak. I really like the 'pinterest look' red buttons though!
He's not saying it's bad -- he's saying that the color scheme is reminiscent of the old joke "What's black and white and red all over" ("A newspaper" as in "re[a]d all over")
The joke also applies to ebooks if you do well, so could be a very appropriate one.
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#33I've wanted something like this for going on two years. I even went so far as to start building it (wireframe: http://basseq.com/fun/epub/; some epub publishing code written), too, but lost momentum back in September and it's been sitting in my project folder.
So I'm excited someone took this further. I'll be playing with this more. Drop me a line if you're looking for more thoughts, feature ideas, or help.
Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#34I've wanted something like this for going on two years. I even went so far as to start building it (wireframe: http://basseq.com/fun/epub/ ; some epub publishing code written), too, but lost momentum back in September and it's been sitting in my project folder. So I'm excited someone took this further. I'll be playing with this more. Drop me a line if you're looking for more thoughts, feature ideas, or help.
Thanks ,sending you an email.
Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#35I recently made a service named Docverter[1] that attacks this from the other end, where you write your book in Markdown or various other markup formats and produce ebook files via pandoc and calibre. It's way more do-it-yourself, but it could be a useful backend for this or other services. [1]: http://www.docverter.com
Great tool, thanks for sharing!
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#36Re: Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks
#37Hello HN, I have been building Papyrus for the past few months. It is a simple web app that allows people to create ebooks easily. Would love to hear your feedback.
Cool looks very nice! I might use it for my new years' resolution to write something:p I would only be cautious because I'd be afraid of losing data (what if I write a whole book with your site & suddenly you go offline) & on the pdf version there 's also a white border around the book, it might be nice to be able to remove this or change it. For the rest it looks very awesome! Nice templates, easy to use etc=)
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#38Nicely done - I too was looking for pricing information but after reading comments here see that its still in development. Bookmarked - good luck!
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#39Tried creating an ebook out of some of my old blog posts. Import from URL feature is pretty cool. Loved it. The frictionless way to try the app is also great. Bookmarking the site. Can I import a couple of my Dropbox docs directly?