What Makes an AI Useful for a Book?
A fluent answer can name a technique. A useful one helps a reader notice what the technique does.
Read articleIdeas from inside the work.
Notes and essays about how ReaderPub is built, and about web-native books, reading, publishing, and the problems that connect them.
The First Book We Could Sell Changed the Question
Making a book readable was one problem. Deciding what a purchase should preserve was another.
Read articleThe Comment Was Attached to a Sentence, But the Conversation Wasn’t
A sentence gave us a starting point. It did not tell us where the discussion should end.
Read articleThe First Real Test Was a Public-Domain Book
A manuscript let me excuse the rough edges. A real book made them impossible to ignore.
Read articleThe First Reader Had to Be a Web Page
I wanted readers to open the same words, not manage another copy.
Read articleA Book File Was the Wrong Way to Ask for Help
The manuscript reached my readers. Their responses kept losing their place.
Read articleThe Book I Was Writing Was Not the Product I Ended Up Building
A founder essay about the gap between reading an unfinished book and responding to it, and how that gap became the beginning of ReaderPub.
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