> There is nothing software-intensive about creating a book. The hard part is typing it in. (If you don't have a keyboard, that is.)
What about dictation?
"Even novelists, working in a form so very written, have needed to write by voice. Stendhal dictated “The Charterhouse of Parma” in seven weeks. An impoverished Dostoyevsky had just six weeks to deliver the manuscript of “The Gambler” or face complete ruin. He hired a stenographer, knocked the book out in four weeks, then married the girl."
What about dictation?
"Even novelists, working in a form so very written, have needed to write by voice. Stendhal dictated “The Charterhouse of Parma” in seven weeks. An impoverished Dostoyevsky had just six weeks to deliver the manuscript of “The Gambler” or face complete ruin. He hired a stenographer, knocked the book out in four weeks, then married the girl."
From "How to Speak a Book", http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/Powers2.t.htm...
(I'm amazed by the accuracy of Dragon Dictation on the iPhone.)