I know you get plied with request for various new versions of Scrivener a lot, but has there been any consideration to creating or porting a version of Scrivener to a cloud server…sort of like Google Docs or some of the other Office compatible programs that reside “in the cloud”. I for one would pay for an annual subscription (within reason of course).
Thank you.
This topic comes up once in a while, and I think the usual difficulty cited is that writing projects vary so widely, and uses of the program, that it would be hard to have a server version that could respond quickly and efficiently to those demands.
At present you may save projects to cloud servers (like Dropbox) and work with those projects in various locations. And maybe one day there will be a USB version of the Windows version to run on host computers. Or a tablet version that will allow writing and revision, for synching to Cloud copies.
Hi,
This is a business model we’re not really interested in at the moment, I’m afraid. It would involve a completely different infrastructure, and one that we would be unable to support. We’d need to be able to provide web servers and maintain them and ensure that users always had access to their documents and suchlike - that’s a completely different kind of business. That’s not to say never, but this would only happen if we achieved world domination and could hire many minions. 
All the best,
Keith
I’ve never heard of an evil genius who waited until after achieving world domination to take on minions. I think they have to promise small islands to those who sign on for basic food, lodging, and matching jumpers, and then count on them being offed in the line of duty.
Actually, such infrastructure owned by Scrivener is not required. Several companies, e.g. Google and Amazon, offer their cloud systems (for a price) and I suspect they include APIs to ease the implementation so you wouldn’t have to re-invent everything. However, there are issues with data integrity and privacy and the fact that cloud services are yet another subscription mechanism.
That’s true, but it’s still a business model we’re not interested in at the moment.
Just for the record, what kind of jumper would we get as a minion?
(It can get pretty cold here during the winter.)
Red, of course, they’re expendable.
I like it!
Does ‘expendable’ mean the same thing as ‘expensive’? That sounds very classy. Sign me up!
I’m going to need the jumper by the middle of November.
Why wait? Y’ can 'ave this one now.
Vic
Oh dear, this is really going to date me, but I had to toss this one in:
[Things I’d Do as an Evil Overlord]
#133. If I find my beautiful consort with access to my fortress has been associating with the hero, I’ll have her executed. It’s regrettable, but new consorts are easier to get than new fortresses and maybe the next one will pay attention at the orientation meeting.
Personally, I think the government is neglecting its duty to promote economic growth by its wilful failure to provide career advice to aspiring Evil Overlords. I mean, where is the succession planning? Have they not realised the vacancies that are starting to appear at the top of our financial institutions – who’s going to replace them, heh?
So, a public service, here is the link to the original free handbook for those contemplating a career in Evil Overlordery: http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html
Readers of this forum will be glad to see that Keith has already implemented point 12 in that several of us in this forum are clearly on the level of the average five-year old…
Clearly you haven’t been following the UK’s Leveson Inquiry. (Although admittedly the overwhelming impression is that it is actually the aforesaid EOs who have been providing the career advice to the politicians.)
Not at all. I wholeheartedly welcome the splendid efforts that Messers Cameron, Hunt and Osborne have put in to increasing the power of existing EOs. After all, how could a government which values unelected unaccountable power used purely for private gain over public good possibly fail to support the BSkyB bid? The very thought is laughable.
No, it’s the future Evil Overlord I’m concerned about. Where are they going to come from?
Rumour has reached me even here in the Land Behind the Great Firewall that finally some among the supporters of EOs have woken up to the fact that a rival bid for EOship to the one being investigated by Leveson has been developing nicely in the finance sector!
X
Indeed. Although some feel that both are in fact the miscegenation of one Evil Overlordspawner sometime in the 1980s…