Reedsy announces the Reedsy Book Editor
LONDON, UK - February 16th 2016.
Reedsy is proud to announce the release of the Reedsy Book Editor.
The Reedsy Book Editor is a powerful free tool designed and built from the ground up, specifically for book production. Reedsy's ambition is to make writing the hardest part of publishing high-quality books, and the Reedsy Book Editor is a key part of that.
"Times have changed," said Matthew Cobb, Lead Designer at Reedsy. "Book distribution has been disrupted for a couple of years now. Authors can instantly publish their book to a global audience with relative ease. But what about the actual production process? There are many ‘writing tools' out there, but none of them actually addresses the issues at the heart of authors' problems."
"Currently, authors use a combination of tools to write and edit their manuscripts. But to turn them into quality books, they are forced to either pay for expensive professional designers or use inflexible online software that poorly formats their final ePub and print-ready files. Such tools pay no attention to the actual craft of typesetting, and authors do not have time to learn complicated programs like Adobe Indesign. Wouldn't it just be simpler to have one powerful tool to write, edit and format a book all from one place?"
The Reedsy Book Editor combines a beautiful writing experience with powerful collaboration and typesetting features. Authors will be able to write their book - from start to finish - and then export high-quality ePub and PDF files, ready for both digital and physical distribution. The typesetting happens automatically in the background, formatting the manuscript based on a choice of themes created by professional designers. The only thing authors need to worry about is the content of their story.
Authors maintain full autonomy over their manuscript from start to finish. The final product can be used for publication on Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iBooks or any other ebook retailer. The PDF files will be compatible with most major print-on-demand services.
"This is not your average text editor," said Cobb. "The powerful automated typesetting and formatting capabilities of The Reedsy Book Editor have been produced using the latest available technologies, after several months of development. There is a lot of number-crunching that goes into making sure each character is placed exactly where it needs to be."
Shortly after the initial release, authors will be able to work on their manuscript in real-time with their editors, who they can hire through the Reedsy Marketplace. The collaborative features of The Reedsy Book Editor allow multiple people to work on a manuscript at once, tracking their changes for review and leaving comments for discussion and clarification. It will supercharge the author-editor relationship, empowering more efficient collaboration between authors and Reedsy professionals.
Features Summary (coming features in italic):
Free beautifully designed book writing tool (Medium for book publishing!)
Instantly export to a range of professionally formatted print-ready templates.
Export ePub and PDF files in seconds
Writing Timeline to go through all the different versions of a book in seconds; auto-backups
Live track-changes and commenting systems
The Reedsy Book Editor extends Reedsy's ambition to assist authors in crafting beautiful books. This began with the Reedsy Marketplace, launched in November 2014, which allows authors to connect with the industry's top professionals (editors, designers, publicists or translators). Reedsy's careful curation (only 1% of applicants are selected) and user-friendly interface earned the startup the title of BookTech Company of 2015, awarded by British trade magazine The Bookseller.
Renowned authors organizations, online retailers and distributions services now recommend Reedsy to their authors looking to get their books edited, designed and marketed. In particular, Reedsy will be providing editing services to Kobo Writing Life authors and offering both its Marketplace and its Book Editor to IngramSpark ® authors in order to create higher-quality, professionally-formatted books.
"What I like about the Reedsy platform is that it provides indie authors with an online marketplace to get many of the services they need to create a finished and polished book. The website is very intuitive and easy to use. This is definitely a service that will benefit IngramSpark authors and why we are happy to recommend."—Robin Cutler, Senior Manager for IngramSpark.
Reedsy expects to support tens of thousands of authors and publishers in 2016, making the company the foundry of bestselling books.
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Notes to Editors
URL to the product homepage (live on February 15th): https://reedsy.com/write-a-book
You can read more about Reedsy in the "Company Profile" document, available here.
Images can be downloaded here:https://www.dropbox.com/s/7xepondtzzr4sfg/PR%20Images%20Book%20Editor.zip?dl=0
To see the Reedsy Book Editor in action, click here.
Press Contact: press@reedsy.com