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What's your favorite ebook publishing tech stack?

What is your favorite ebook publishing stack (code or no-code)?

I'm looking at things like Bookdown, Pandoc, etc. I'd rather not use Gumroad as I am already committed to Podia for the actual sales process. My ideal setup would be writing in Markdown but simultaneously outputting PDF, MOBI, and EPUB as well as an auto-generated table of contents.

I've looked at a couple friends' setups but would love to hear what others are doing.

Thanks!

on January 18, 2021
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    My ebook publishing stack:

    • Google Docs: manuscript editing
    • GitHub: repo for Markua manuscript source (Markua is Leanpub's Markdown dialect optimized for books)
    • Leanpub: formatting, generating PDF + ePub + Mobi, publishing
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      Thanks, adding this to my notes!

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        You're welcome.

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    As a former Laravel developer and a big fan of their community, I have to drop https://github.com/themsaid/ibis here 😅

    Most likely gonna be my tool for any upcoming ebooks!

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      Thank you, added it to my notes!

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    c/c @randallkanna @arvidkahl @alexhillman

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      I use Apple Pages for PDF design and layout and then pay a nominal fee to have it converted to epub/mobi by someone who specializes in them.

      I'm a fan of the least technical publishing stack possible for the job, whatever that is, since IME more time gets wasted fiddling and tweaking the tooling than it saves.

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        Thanks for your input Alex!