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At long last, the search is over (again). I had just about resigned myself to paying several thousand dollars to the original coders of the beautiful\u00a0Noble Beast release –\u00a0Steampunk Holmes – to have them update their native app. But then\u00a0two months went by\u00a0without\u00a0so much as an estimate, and I began to fear for the whole project (again).<\/p>\n

So I went back to the intertubes to check if any scrappy upstart had emerged in the year since I’d last searched for buried treasure in that weird, nameless, nebulous\u00a0sandbox where Statisticity plays.<\/p>\n

It didn’t take long to find\u00a0Beneath the Ink<\/a>, a publishing startup\u00a0in the\u00a0enhanced e-book space. Like Noble Beast, they were\u00a0one of the 2014\u00a0Digital Book Award winners (they won for best Adult Fiction – Enhanced Ebook, where Noble Beast won for best Adult Fiction – App). I have no idea how prestigious this award might\u00a0be, but at the very least it hints at\u00a0a finished product and some sort of independent review.<\/p>\n

I contacted Beneath the Ink\u00a0through their website, and they responded quickly and enthusiastically. Since then, I’ve\u00a0had the chance to test-drive one of their finished books as well as\u00a0their just-released author portal. I’m happy to report that – besides a great name – Beneath the Ink has\u00a0powerful software. I’ll be able to\u00a0keep\u00a0pretty much every feature I wanted\u00a0in the native app. That means character profiles, illustrations, additional scenes, images, wikis, and more.\u00a0Beyond that, the author portal is so intuitive and user-friendly that I’ll be able to do\u00a0most of the technical production work myself, despite being a code-tard. And\u00a0where the Noble Beast version would only have been accessible on the iPad, Beneath the Ink will also run on any device\u00a0that can host the epub2 or\u00a0epub3 formats \u2013 including current versions of Kindle, iBook, Kobo, and Nook.<\/p>\n

Finally, this upstart is\u00a0still around and growing fast, which may suggest a\u00a0better business model as well. At any rate,\u00a0I\u2019m cautiously optimistic that they’ll be around\u00a0long enough for Statisticity to see the light…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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