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Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 19, 2017 at 11:08 PM
Has anyone tried this?
Posted by Larry Kollar
Feb 20, 2017 at 12:13 AM
If eBook export is still “in progress,” that’s a deal-breaker for me. I should look to see if it offers anything beyond what Scivener + Markdown + Dropbox gives.
Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Feb 20, 2017 at 12:12 PM
As it stands now, Novlr is to Scrivener what a pencil is to a typewriter—an that perhaps is its only allure: simplicity. I wish these folks well, but who would want to spend $120 a year for less functionality than you get with Scrivener for twice the cost of the one-time purchase of Scrivener? They will end up dropping the price or failing, I think.
Off line mode, is a good idea, however.
Steve Z.
Posted by Lothar Scholz
Feb 20, 2017 at 04:57 PM
I think they try the basic capitalist business model here:
If you don’t have enough customers you have to raise the prices to pay your bills.
.... oh wait ....
Posted by Dr Andus
Feb 20, 2017 at 11:30 PM
Stephen Zeoli wrote:
>who would want to spend $120 a year for less functionality
>than you get with Scrivener for twice the cost of the one-time purchase
>of Scrivener?
People who can’t install Scrivener (or run any executables), i.e. the Chromebook generation.
More than 50% of US schools now use Chromebooks, and these kids are growing up quickly:
http://www.techtimes.com/articles/113650/20151207/google-chromebook-now-owns-over-50-percent-of-educational-tech-market-share-in-us.htm
I follow https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeos/ and people are starting to ask for Scrivener-like functionality but they want it online because they don’t want to buy either a Mac or a Windows machine.
But I’m not trying to justify their pricing strategy. Someone will come along and offer something similar for a lot less, and that might bring the price down in the end.