Yeah, the video was designed in a way to capture the experience rather than the tech. What isn't fully exposed:
- what you see is what you get. whenever you want, you can download the story in epub, mobi, or pdf format. while you might have to pay initially, you keep the story itself for any future download at each stage of its development in any format.
- writing is in realtime. you can see what others write, google doc style.
- content discovery is an enormous sell point here. you can write in gdocs all you want, but will just anyone be able to find and read and comment on it? we make stories accessible to the entire future pen.fm community to share and enjoy.
- we can update you on stories that you've subscribed to, to let you know anything from the fact that it's updated, or the section added itself.
- does anyone really enough shuffling back and forth between word/gdocs, chat, and forums?
Thanks for that, I get it better now. Writing with this isn't something that interests me personally, but I hope it is funded because I reckon watching other people do it in a "spectator" mode would be pretty entertaining!
- what you see is what you get. whenever you want, you can download the story in epub, mobi, or pdf format. while you might have to pay initially, you keep the story itself for any future download at each stage of its development in any format.
- writing is in realtime. you can see what others write, google doc style.
- content discovery is an enormous sell point here. you can write in gdocs all you want, but will just anyone be able to find and read and comment on it? we make stories accessible to the entire future pen.fm community to share and enjoy.
- we can update you on stories that you've subscribed to, to let you know anything from the fact that it's updated, or the section added itself.
- does anyone really enough shuffling back and forth between word/gdocs, chat, and forums?
- and more. hope that's good for now. :)