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Book Oven Ready To Bake

I received word the other day that Book Oven is out of alpha.

Their first offering, Bite-Sized Edits, is open to the world. Bite-Sized Edits allows you to upload a document, share it (or not) and offers proofreading tools. According to Hugh McGuire, who created Book Oven:

You can help proofread other peoples’ texts, you can proofread your own text (in private) using Bite-Size Edits, you can invite a small group, or open up your project for proofreading by the world.

Hugh's vision of collaborative or "cloud-based" publishing uses a little bit of crowdsourcing, some innovative tools, and a lot of love for books and reading:

Book Oven was born of this inspiration: to make an online space where writers could gather a group of collaborators (editors, proofreaders, designer) around their work to help take a raw manuscript through to finished product, and then, if they wish, to sell it through online channels (though of course, if they wish to ship the final manuscript to a publisher, they can do that too; or they can just keep it for themselves).

 

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Posted by Laura Dawson , August 7, 09, 9:55 AM , comments(0) , permalink , Email this post
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