Scrivener 2.0 public preview now available

Barely a week before NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) begins, the public preview of Scrivener 2.0 is out. This version is sans the project templates that will be available when the full version hits next week. In addition to the 2.0 preview, a beta version of the new Windows client is also available. We've been looking forward to the release of Scrivener 2.0 and will be putting the public preview through its paces in the next few days.

The public preview version of Scrivener is free to use until December 7. Any NaNoWriMo participants who achieve their goal of 50,000 words will qualify for a 50 percent discount off of the full version of Scrivener 2.0. Those who do not make the quota can get 20 percent off by using the discount code NANOWRIMO during purchase.

Scrivener 2.0 is US$45 for a regular license and $38.25 for an academic license. A registered owner of Scrivener 1 will be able to update for $25. Those who bought Scrivener on or since August 1, 2010 will be entitled to a free update.

Scrivener 2.0 requires OS X 10.4 or higher and remains a Universal application, but there is some extra functionality with Snow Leopard. The full version is expected to be released a week from today.

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Source: http://www.literatureandlatte.com/nanowrimo.html

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cycladic

@reclark: The public preview does NOT overwrite an existing 1.* version.

The public preview is named Scrivener NaNo 2010 and sits in a folder called ScriNaNoMacPreview. You can have both installed, work with the 2.0 preview to your heart's content and even keep both 1.* and 2.0 if you decide to continue with 2.0.

If you import a project into the 2.0 preview, it will update that project but also make a backup of the version 1 file.

I like the GUI of verson 2 much, much, much better than version 1.

October 26 2010 at 4:34 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

reclark

Does the public preview over right your existing 1.** version?

October 26 2010 at 1:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

P0150N37RY

anyone noticing how glitchy the beta is? i'm getting random freeze-ups.

October 26 2010 at 1:38 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ElM

Nice, I'm going to give it a shot with NaNoWriMo. Now if I could just hook up a typewriter to my iMac, like these folks did..

http://www.laptopdrv.net/2010/09/01/turn-your-old-typewriter-into-the-mechanical-mac-keyboard/

October 25 2010 at 8:07 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Brad

Which do you guys recommend, Storymill or Scrivener 2.0? I know it's a subjective question, but I want to know what to start my NaNo in so that I won't have to switch in the middle.

October 25 2010 at 7:37 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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kakapo

I have both and prefer Scrivener... I also have Jers Novel Writer. It has some great tools, too.

But all in all, I like Scrivener the best.

Cheers.

October 25 2010 at 8:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

warreno

Interesting. I'm retrieving it just to give it a whirl, though my go-to word processor for several years now has been DevonNote, which allows me all kinds of nifty nonlinear compose/edit/organization options.

For iPad, I'm using Notebooks, which dose basically the same thing, but ... on the iPad.

Nonetheless, thanks for the pointer. Those of you gearing up for NaNoWriMo, good luck!

October 25 2010 at 7:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply