Ulysses (Mac only including iOS) is the new(ish) kid on the block. And Scrivener has a Black Friday Sale this weekend only. Gwen Hernandez’ Dummies Guide to Scrivener is a great go-along gift. Scrivener (Mac and PC, about $45 but discount coupons available) is widely beloved, extremely flexible and customizable, and outputs uploadable files in a range of formats when the book is finished. If the writer in your life has existing epubs and wants to revise, make corrections, or simply update back matter, Jutoh makes the job easy. As far as I know, Jutoh is the only one that opens epub files.

Jutoh (Mac and PC, about $40) is fast and flexible and outputs a wide range of file formats. Add-on spellcheck comes in languages from Serbian, Estonian, Turkish and beyond. It has a helpful user forum, useful sample documents and templates, will edit existing MSWord docs and turn your documents into epubs. Atlantis (PC only, about $40) is try-before-you buy, fully-featured word processor. I’m assuming everyone has Word but there are other excellent and well-thought-out alternatives/add-ons.

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