Atlas Beta – The new learning environment from O’Reilly(chimera.labs.oreilly.com)

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Atlas Beta – The new learning environment from O’Reilly

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9 comments

The url should be changed to:

http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/about

I am using it. My O'Reilly book is not announced yet, but you can join my (non-spammy) mailing list at http://www.solr-start.com/ to be the first to get details (and eventually discounts).

Atlas is not bad. Backed by Git, auto-saves, UI editor with a couple of options (Asciidoc, Markdown, etc) and nice on-demand build system. Can do HTML, PDF, and ePub.

Certainly a lot better than MSWord way of writing a book that I suffered through for my first (non O'Reilly) book.

I am looking forward to when the editing process start, that part was the most painful last time.

But I don't think this is open to a general public to be actually used (yet).

mejarc12년 전

I don't see an obvious way to access the non-book content. The "Read|Watch..." navigation only goes to /about.

dugmartin12년 전

Once you register the buttons change when you look at each book. Most have a free html viewer option.

ben_straub12년 전

We use Atlas to build the e-book versions of Pro Git (which you can download at https://progit.org/). We don't use their editing system, though; it's basically a continuous-deployment system for the book, and it does a pretty great job at that.

ivansavz12년 전

Looks like a proprietary version of: https://github.com/softcover/softcover

jonny211212년 전

Are these ebooks free now?

cirosantilli12년 전

Also note that their to PDF compilation is not free: http://forum.atlas.oreilly.com/t/is-it-possible-to-compile-b...

MetricMike12년 전

From the bottom of the FAQ:

Q. Will all content always be free?

A. Probably not. As the site grows and we add more and different types of material, we’ll aim to offer a rich balance of free and paid content.