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Discussion on: Little Webby Press: first successful book generation

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Andre Alves Garzia

Hey Chris, I missed you! :D

So Little Webby Press generates two deliverables:

  • An eBook suitable for eReaders.
  • A static website for the book.

This static website may contain just metadata about the book and links to download, or the book content, it is up to the author. They can also have a sample of the book on the site and unlock the rest of the chapters when the reader is WM-enabled.

I've been focusing on the eBook generation first because it is harder. There are a lot of little gotchas to get an EPUB that passes "Adobe Epubcheck" validation. I believe that next week I'll be ready to start on the site generation.

All the WM tech is on the site that is generated. I can see this as a way for indie authors to control their platforms and monetize them.

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Chris Lawrence

OK good to know, will be good to play with those WM aspects on the website. I believe single payments is a Coil feature that will ship soon. I wonder if it would be fun to experiment with "pay what you want models"

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Andre Alves Garzia

The use case I want to implement is unlocking extra chapters on the site for users who are webmonetized. I suspect this is not that hard. Later once single-payment is more mature I can look into it as well.