: Re: Software for keeping track of book edits? So I'm writing a new edition of an old textbook, and I need some way of keeping track of what needs to be done, and what I have done. I could

May I recommend an approach I use since I also license my content for reuse:

Source - HTML source format is my preference, but you can use LaTex as well
Works great for all your distribution formats - PDF, Mobi, Word, etc
Google Web Designer - Editor for all major OS's www.google.com/webdesigner Love this line from License agreement - You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content. In short, what belongs to you stays yours.
Tracking - GIT git-scm.com/
Wether the format is HTML, binary, it will do a great job of tracking changes, branches, revisions and releases, and Github or Bitbucket are great cloud repositories to work with contributors
Tasks - I like Jira www.atlassian.com/software/jira and is also cloud based

I use all three for my works and it has paid off, literally and figuratively - Happy Writing.

Git can be configured to show the "revision" checkin's in Jira, so it is easy to track and allow others to contribute, monitor progress and provide Project Wiki's, etc.

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