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It's difficult to do a head-to-head comparison because it's not very often that you'll find someone who has experience using both Mashery and Apigee. So, from the Mashery side, I can comment on what is available because I am deeply familiar with the solution.
For documenting an API, Mashery has two product features that come standard to all clients: (1) ...
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For me, as somebody said already, simple text files with markup languages (AKA Latex) with Github or Bitbucket is the best option not only because it will allow you to share your work with the people you need (editors and co-authors) but also because it will help you to safely backup your files and control every change.
Btw, both - Github and Bitbucket - ...
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I would recommend giving Google Docs a try. It's free, and allows each of you to see eachothers changes as they happen in realtime.
Quite useful. Allows commenting and reviewing too, and there's inbuilt revision control so that you can go back and see who did what, and when.
Using version control systems might be too complex. I suggest this simplified ...
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Somebody already suggests but I'm really satisfied with Latex.
It's distraction free, can be used in ANY text editor you want and has the BIG advantage of separating formatting from content. In my case, I just created my own class to have the final document formatted as I want.
Another huge advantage is that, since it's plain text, you may threat it as ...
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Any text editor can be made completely functional using a Markdown-like syntax called Fountain (info at fountain.io), which is similar to the formatting standard used here on *Exchange.
The simple markup language was designed by a team including Stu Maschwitz (who made Han Solo step on Jabba's tail in Star Wars for crying out loud) and John August, ...
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You can rent a Mac in the "Cloud" using MacInCloud. They have several pricing plans including pay-per-go (which unfortunately has a minimum charge and automatic recharge). The cost may be prohibitive if you don't expect many (or any) sales.
An alternative is to upload your book using Smashwords, which is an Apple-approved aggregator. They'll take a cut of ...
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TL;DR:
Don't bother with Apple iBookstore unless you really, really want to because their market share is very small, albeit not insignificant. Instead, focus on Amazon, B&N
and maybe Google eBookstores.
You could buy a secondhand Mac but that might be a bit much to invest in just to submit your eBook to Apple.
Or, you could use an ...
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I write while lying on my stomach my bed, with all the covers shoved to one side. I have Christmas lights hanging on the wall it's up against, which is really nice.
It's like when one of those expensively-done iPad commercials comes on and the girl in the commercial, who is rich enough to afford an iPad, is also apparently rich enough to have a patio with ...
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Springhole.net has a whole collection of generators depending on your genre. I usually don't use the ones for character names, but the ones for country names, item names, plant names--those are great. I find it really difficult to come up with spellwords that don't sound stupid, but that site can be a really helpful one.
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