Writing / Story-telling / Publishing Tools

Writing-focused /Assistance

SocialCuration

Document Revision /Collaboration

EnterpriseCollaboration

StoryCollaboration

Digital PublicationAssembly

Digital & Self-Publishing

SocialReading

Description

Tools focused on enabling non-professional writers to explore,develop and share their writing

& story-telling skills throughtext & other media, often in

collaboration with / input fromothers.

One person creates a story,possibly with some input from

others, but mostly blog +curation of available elements

on the social web.

Tools focused on managing thecollaborative creation andrevision of a single work

product (typically among a pre-defined group of contributors).

Business-targeted, enterprise-class tools primarily targeted at

collaboration and projectmanagement of documetns

and workflow.

Tools focused on creative storydevelopment with a very highdegree of collaboration, and

where a community of authors /creators / artists co-create andco-manage a work vs. any one

single artist.

Tools focused on assemblingdeveloped media into a

finished digital or phsyicalproduct.

Tools focused on self-publishing a work once it has

been written.

"Social Reading" & other socialconsumption tools focused onenhancing a core reading orconsumption experience withrelated/linked social content

and interaction.

Examples

- Libboo++ - Figment++

- InkPop (acq by Figment)- Writing.com

- HyperInk- Scripted

- CrowdProse- Cowbird (Images & Text)++

- Content.ly++- Storify++- Pinterest- Snip.It

- Zemanta

- Google Docs - WriteBoard- MixedInk++- PiratePad++- SocialText- ZohoWriter

- Zotero- Thumbscribes

- Adobe (Acrobat)- Atlassian Confluence

- Basecamp- Broadvision Clearvale

- Colaab- Chatter (SalesForce)

- Huddle- Sharepoint- Socialcast

- Tibbr- Wiggio

- Yammer- Zoho

- Sosius- nu+/Yooplus

- Podio

- AUTHORBEE- Hadza (Vids)++

- Ruckus Media (Kids)- BoxFiction (TV)

- HitRecord (Music)- BookRix SocialBook (Tweets)++

- LeanPub- Moglue- Adobe

- Woodwing- Webdoc

- PressBooks- Periodic Technology

- Pages- SmashWords

- Sigil- Scrivener

- KindleDirect- PubIT

- Pandamanian- MyStoryBook

- Composer- Moglue

- ActiveReader- Kwiksher

- InteractBuilder- Demibooks Composer

- Adobe- Woodwing- Aquafadas

- BookOnPublish- Publish88

- Red Foundry (apps)- Webdoc

- Blurb- Plyvore- Hype- Mixel

- Byliner++- Bookish- Amazon

- Outskirts Press- Tate Publishing- AuthorHouse

- aNobii- SmashWords

- Aventine Press- BookLocker- BookPros

- BookSurge Publishing- CreateSpace

- Creation House- Dog Ear Publishing- Infinity Publishing

- iUniverse- Llumina Press

- Lulu Press- Mill City Press- Morgan James- Outskirts Press

- Page Free Publishing- Pleasant Word

- Publish America- Tate Publishing

- Trafford Publishing- Universal Publishers

- VirtualBookWorm- Wheatmark

- WingSpan Press- Xlibris Corporation

- Xulon Press

- Scribd- KOBO Pulse++

- SubText++- BookGlutton

- Findings- Readmill- HuffPost

- Boston Pheonix- TheAmandaProject

- Findings- Readmill

- Copia- 24Symbols- OpenMargin- Broadcastr

Emphasis:Primary ("w/" indicates secondary)

Creation vs. Distribution Creation w/ Distribution Creation Creation Creation & Distribution Creation & Distribution Creation Distribution Distribution Creation vs. Consumption Creation w/ Consumption Creation & Consumption Creation Creation & Consumption Creation & Consumption Creation Consumption Consumption Professional vs. Amateur Amateur Professional w/ Amateur Professional Professional Amateur w/ Professional Professional Professional & Amateur Amateur Core vs. Meta Content Core Meta w/ Core Core Core Core w/ Meta Core Core Meta Original vs. Curated Content Original Curated w/ Original Original Original Original Original Original Original Document vs. Story Management Story Story Document Document Story Document Document Story Individual vs. Collaborative Creation Individual w/ Collaboration Individual w/ Collaboration Collaborative Collaborative Collaborative Individual Individual Collaborative Single vs. Shared Control Single Single Single w/ Shared Shared Shared Single Single Shared

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