You name the subject
Anything: a war you never followed properly, an idea you half know, a field you always avoided. There is no catalogue to pick from and no right way to phrase it.
One word is enough. So is a full sentence.
How it works
From a subject to a finished book.
Nothing here is a demo. This is the real sequence, in the order it happens, with what you control at each point.
We ask you a few questions
First the angle: a subject has several, and we show you the ones that fit yours, or you describe your own. Then where you are starting from, how much concrete detail you want, the tone, the length, and the language you want to read in.
This is where your book stops being a generic book on the subject.
You see the plan before anything is written
A full outline: the chapters, what each one covers, and the order they build in. Read it, and if it is not the book you wanted, revise it.
The plan is free, and you do not need an account to see it.
The book is written
Chapter by chapter, in order, each one aware of what came before. Then a closing chapter gathers the key ideas. It takes a few minutes, and we email you when it is done.
35, 50 or 80 pages, as you chose.
What makes it a book
Not an answer. A book.
Every OnTopic book has the same anatomy, whatever the subject.
How the Middle East became so complex
What inflation is and why it affects you
The history of the Cold War, explained simply
A cover
Your subject, with a spine and a place on a shelf, in the library that holds everything you have had written.
Chapters that build
Each one assumes what the last one taught, so the understanding accumulates instead of restarting.
A recap at the end of each chapter
A few lines that fix what just happened, before the next chapter moves on.
Key terms, defined in place
The words a subject cannot be explained without, defined where they first appear and collected for the whole book.
A closing chapter
The essentials: what to remember, gathered once the book is finished.
On paper-like screens
Read it where you actually read.
A finished book can be sent to a Kindle or a Kobo in one tap, and it arrives as a proper e-book: a cover, a table of contents, chapters your reader can navigate. Or read it in the app, which remembers where you stopped.
Kindle
Kindle: send it to the address Amazon gives you, once.
Kobo
Kobo: connect Dropbox once, and books land in your reader.
OnTopic
In the app: your place is kept, on every device you sign in on.
Start with the thing you never understood.
The plan costs nothing, and you will know in a minute whether this is the book you wanted.