Here is an overview of all the tools I used and the external help I got to create this book in one year.
Proofreading | 792.01$ | Direct Help from external people to review the grammar of my English texts. I've used Proofed for the book interior and Papertrue for the foreword.
Podia | 331.5$ | Indirect The tool I use for the community of co-creators and to host my books
Taskbullet | 220$ | Direct External help with administrative tasks like verifying every link or importing all my notes from Notion to Pages.
Grammarly | 144$ | Direct A tool that helps me to improve my English writing.
Scribd | 87.11$ | Indirect A subscription to get unlimited ebooks and audiobooks. Like Netflix but for books. A lot of the inspiration for my books comes from other books, both for the structure and the content.
Notion | 48$ | Indirect The tool that I use to manage all my writing.
Illustrations | 39$ | Direct A one-month subscription to Streamline to illustrate the last version of the book.
Total:1710.62$
Overview of costs
Once the data is shown in a graph, it's pretty clear that proofreading is the biggest expense I have to create a book, as it takes nearly half of my budget.
Written by Daniele Catalanotto on Thursday, December 29th, 2022.
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