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Re: Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

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Congratulations on the launch. As the first author on the platform, http://conqueringthecommandline.com , and as the author of two other books ( http://books.markbates.com ), I can say that this was the easiest, and nicest tool chain I've worked with. It took me from saying "I'm never going to write another book again" to "I have so many books I want to write now!".

Very nicely done. Just finished reading the whole. Hope you'd write the sequel.

Re: Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

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This looks great. I was not able to find out myself: Where is the source-code hosted?

That is totally up to you. You can write your book and push changes to GitHub, store the book files in your Dropbox directory, tempt fate and just store them locally, etc. Softcover just pulls in the HTML and eBooks that are compiled from the source code, as well as the book config files, and generates the views and links.

Thanks for that info, but my question was about the source code of Softcover itself.

Re: Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

#63

Congratulations on the launch. As the first author on the platform, http://conqueringthecommandline.com , and as the author of two other books ( http://books.markbates.com ), I can say that this was the easiest, and nicest tool chain I've worked with. It took me from saying "I'm never going to write another book again" to "I have so many books I want to write now!".

Very nicely done. Just finished reading the whole. Hope you'd write the sequel.

Glad to hear you like it.

Re: Show HN: Softcover – A publishing platform from the author of the Rails Tutorial

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I noticed that when changing from one chapter page to another, it loads much faster than the original rails tutorial, that takes forever. Nice improvement, still note a little latency though. It will be nice for people to study the Rails Tutorial Book when published on Softcover's new platform. Is going to happen?

There is already a version of the Rails Tutorial book that builds on Softcover, and in the coming weeks I plan to move the full tutorial over to the Softcover platform (taking care to preserve things like legacy download links). Watch for an announcement once the change-over is complete.
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