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Kinda my feeling. But I won't trash Scrivener.

> Vellum does almost nothing in comparison except produce a limited range of beautiful books.

Exactly. That's all I want. Hopefully a higher price means they can live on that alone.

And they have fonts which not everyone in the world is using. Maybe Scrivener does too; haven't checked.

But maybe this will start a flame war: Guy Kawasaki recommends Adobe InDesign. To hell with monthly fees, so no.




InDesign is great, if you want to precisely layout print books. It does not support ebooks at all.

Doing both at once is Vellum's sweet spot.

If you don't want to pay subscriptions, I've heard Affinity Publisher is a good option.




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