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Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 22, 2017 at 08:12 AM
washere wrote:
>If you think they should charge more than $25 or have
>annual subscription, I’m sure they will be happy to hear your
>suggestions.
In the Lit&Latte forum, people often suggest charging a higher price. Maybe Keith Blount is happy about that, I don’t know. But he keeps saying he does not intend to raise the price, and he does not intend to switch to subscription.
Posted by Lawrence Osborn
Nov 22, 2017 at 10:11 AM
A friend of mine has been beta-testing Scrivener 3 for the past few months, and he has now blogged a review of it, which some of you might find interesting: http://www.garygibson.net/2017/11/scrivener-3-my-review.html
As a user of the Windows version of Scrivener, I can’t wait for the new version. The upgrade price strikes me as very reasonable (but then I would happily pay that much for a good quality fountain pen friendly A5 notebook).
Yours
Lawrence
Posted by Hugh
Nov 22, 2017 at 11:53 AM
Franz Grieser wrote:
washere wrote:
>
>>If you think they should charge more than $25 or have
>>annual subscription, I’m sure they will be happy to hear your
>>suggestions.
>
>In the Lit&Latte forum, people often suggest charging a higher price.
>Maybe Keith Blount is happy about that, I don’t know. But he keeps
>saying he does not intend to raise the price, and he does not intend to
>switch to subscription.
Scrivener is a demonstration of the economic principle that you can sometimes sell disproportionately more if you charge somewhat less. (It was even more dramatic ten years ago when Scrivener launched and when writing apps could cost as much as $100. I remember thinking then that if I was still teaching economics as I once did, I’d have tried to use Scrivener as a case study - of “the price elasticities of demand”.)
Posted by Paul Korm
Nov 22, 2017 at 12:03 PM
There is an updated version of the Take Control book for Scrivener 3.
https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/scrivener-3
The Take Control books are helpful, additional “missing manuals” —although, the manual for Scrivener 3 is itself 847 pages, so an additional book is probably TMI.
Posted by Amontillado
Nov 22, 2017 at 08:41 PM
I bought a new license for Scrivener 3 the moment it was available. I found a couple of glitches that were fixed that day.
My purchased download was maybe an hour into Version 3’s life, and was 3.0(58) - or something close to that. A couple of things didn’t work quite right, but nothing major. Just UI irregularities and the “check for updates” function returned an error.
A second download that afternoon got 3.0(75), which is still what’s there as of now. I can’t find anything not working per documentation.
There is one oddity, but it’s not a bug so much as it’s a wrinkle in mouse and keyboard event handling. This may be due to inheritance structuring in Scrivener’s code, or it may be a MacOS thing.
If you hold the option key down while you click and drag a title from the binder to the editor’s header, it opens a second edit window called a copyholder, but the mouse events have to be in the specific order, and actually option-drag is the wrong way to look at it. The mouse event to generate is option-release.
Option-click-drag-release opens the dragged document in the copyholder and also jumps the editor to the selected new document. Click-option-drag-release works as expected, leaving the main edit window open and opening the new document in the copyholder. In other words, click in the binder before depressing the option key.
I’d call that a rough edge, but it doesn’t crash anything and no data is lost.
Scrivener Version 3 looks pretty cool to me.