Books as Code: Writing and Publishing Books with Markdown and Git

After finishing my first book and successfully publishing it through Amazon KDP, I started thinking about translating it into other languages.

English may be the largest book market in the world, but it is also one of the most crowded. There are already plenty of books exploring the simulation hypothesis, transhumanism, and related ideas, which makes it difficult for a new title to stand out.

Other languages, however, open up entirely different audiences—and often far less saturated markets. More importantly, even when readers are perfectly comfortable with English, many still prefer reading a full-length book in their native language. That translated feel like a natural next step.

I decided to start with a German edition. I had used the Reedsy Book Editor to produce the English version, and it had worked really well. It’s a great little tool—but it wasn’t quite the right fit for what I wanted to do...

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