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The process of publishing a book has changed significantly over the past 10 years. Thanks to companies like Amazon, Google, and Leanpub, you can publish your book on your own. This book can help you to overcome all the obstacles along the way, using the most powerful typesetting software available (LaTeX and Overleaf).
Better Books with LaTeX the Agile Way
About the Book
Bundled with this book is a template that will give you a head start in your publishing process. In fact, this very book was produced with the same template. You can check out the template here.
Still unsure whether this book is for you?
Besides providing you with a free, ready-to-use template (for the new Overleaf platform) to publish your next book, Better Books with LaTeX can teach you:
And how to:
About the Author
What would lead a computer scientist to write about publishing books with LaTeX? Clemens Lode has a passion for clean design and streamlined workflows in software projects. The same methods can be applied to publishing and typesetting. In this book, he explains the provided book template—file by file—so that you can adapt it to your needs and concentrate on actually writing and marketing the book.
With his Better Books series, Clemens Lode covers the entire publishing process, from your initial concept to marketing your book on Amazon or Google. The focus of this book is to organize your book's files, images, and formatting, as well as the automated process of uploading your book to a publisher. The focus of Writing Better Books the Agile Way is to organize your content and project as a whole.
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