We've been dropping hints for a while, but can finally make an official announcement: Scrivener for iOS is now in development.
At long last, it's here - Scrivener 1.0 for Windows is now available for download and purchase. Please see the product page here:
One of my favourite Douglas Adams quotes is this:
One of the main issues with supporting a deep program such as Scrivener is providing enough help and tutorial materials. Although it's relatively straightforward to pick up and start using Scrivener, it can be used in many different ways, and while our tutorial and Help manual are thorough, we're aware it would be really useful to provide some more workflow-oriented tutorials and walkthroughs. To this end, we've already decided to put some time aside after releasing 2.1 (out soon) to write some more tutorials for the Knowledge Base wiki, and to put some more screencasts together.
Scrivener is now live on the Mac App Store! A big thank you to those who have been wanting to buy Scrivener from the App Store and who have waited eagerly to do so - we really appreciate it. And kudos to whoever the reviewer at Apple was, too, as he or she gave us feedback very quickly in areas we needed to fix, and I'm really happy to say that the Mac App Store version of Scrivener is identical to the version we sell directly - no features had to be stripped.
The big Mac-related news of the past week has been the release of the shiny new Mac App Store, which got plonked into the Dock of anybody who upgraded to OS X 10.6.6. Accordingly, we've been receiving a number of enquiries about our plans: some potential customers want to know if we'll be coming to the App Store because they would rather buy from this central app hub; others, and some existing customers, are concerned that we will move to the App Store and stop selling via our own site, as a couple of high-profile apps have done, and about what the ramifications of such a move would be in terms of upgrades.
For those participating in NaNoWriMo this year - or who are just curious about the features in Scrivener 2.0, which will be released officially next Monday (1st November) - we have just posted a special NaNoWriMo preview version on the following page, as promised:
Here is an introductory video that shows you how to get up and running with Scrivener. There are two versions, one showing Scrivener 2.0 for Mac and the other showing the Scrivener beta for Windows (Mac users will relish how much more polished the Mac version is, but Windows users can take solace from the fact that the Windows version still has a way to go before it is released early next year, so does indeed have a lot of rough edges at this stage).