Atlas Beta – The new learning environment from O’Reilly

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).

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

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.

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

Are these ebooks free now?