Built for instructors, academic authors, and teaching teams who want to write a textbook with AI from a course title, lecture notes, and reading lists. Confirm a course-sequenced chapter outline, generate chapters grounded in real scholarly citations and your uploaded materials, and produce complete chapter pedagogy, a 16-week syllabus, and slides before exporting to Word, LaTeX, EPUB, or PDF.
Select the textbook manuscript type, write down the title of the book, and upload your lecture notes, papers (PDF), reading lists (BibTeX or RIS), Word documents, Markdown files, or TXT notes as source material—or import an existing draft in Word (.docx), LaTeX (.tex or .zip), Markdown (.md), PDF (including scanned PDFs), or DRM-free EPUB (EPUB 2/3) at /books/new?mode=import.
The workspace proposes an outline with each chapter's aim, its sections, and how chapters build across the course based on your materials. Rename, reorder, add, or remove chapters until the sequence matches your syllabus, then confirm to start drafting.
Chapters are written in order in the background using verified citations from scholarly indexes and your uploaded notes, and an email notification is sent when the draft is complete. Each chapter is paired with learning objectives, a summary, key terms, exercises with reference answers, a case study, and further reading drawn strictly from the chapter text and cited works.
Revise paragraph by paragraph in the editor, run the whole-book check and citation audit, and generate the week-by-week syllabus and course slides. Export the finished textbook manuscript on a paid plan as a Word (.docx) package, a LaTeX package, an EPUB 3 ebook, or a PDF.
Every textbook chapter includes structured pedagogical components generated from the chapter's own body text rather than invented from outside: 4–6 learning objectives, a chapter summary with 4–7 key points, and 8–15 key terms with definitions. Each chapter also includes a 3–5 paragraph case study followed by 2–3 discussion questions, plus 4–8 further reading entries selected only from the literature cited in the book.
Each chapter provides 6–10 exercises arranged in pedagogical sequence: recall questions come first, followed by application and analysis problems, and concluding with one open-ended question. Reference answers are generated alongside the exercises so instructors can prepare problem sets and grading guides simultaneously.
Beyond the manuscript itself, the AI textbook writer produces a week-by-week course syllabus organized around your chapters—defaulting to a 16-week table covering Week, Topic, Chapters, and Activities & Assignments—and generates accompanying course slides.
When drafting chapters, SciVolume cites only works that exist in the scholarly indexes or in the materials you uploaded. Paragraphs built from your lecture notes or papers carry a source mark so you can read the draft and your original material side by side, and the citation audit checks every reference against its source passage to report whether it is supported, not mentioned, or contradicted.
Once the textbook glossary is settled, terminology remains uniform across all chapters, and figure, table, and equation numbers update automatically if you reorder chapters. Citation styles—APA, Chicago (author-date and notes), MLA, Harvard, IEEE, Nature, and GB/T 7714 (numeric and author-date)—can be switched without breaking references.
For university faculty turning years of lecture notes, slides, and reading lists into a structured textbook with chapter objectives, graded problem sets, and a 16-week syllabus.
For instructors teaching specialized or emerging courses where no single textbook covers the syllabus, allowing disparate papers and lecture notes to be unified into a coherent manuscript with verified citations.
For technical educators and institutional instructors developing structured training books that require chapter summaries, defined terminology, case studies with discussion questions, and exercises with reference answers.
For authors and departments adapting an existing textbook into Chinese, English, Japanese, German, French, or Spanish as a paragraph-aligned translated edition with equations, figures, and citations preserved in place.
.docx), Markdown (.md), and TXT files..docx), LaTeX (.tex, or a multi-file .zip project with \input/\include automatically expanded and .bib bibliography files automatically imported), Markdown (.md), PDF (direct text reading when a text layer is present; scanned PDFs recognized page by page by AI), and EPUB (DRM-free EPUB 2/3, split into chapters by the ebook's built-in table of contents) via /books/new?mode=import. Single files up to 60 MB and manuscripts up to 3,000,000 characters (longer works prompt for splitting); imported outlines and chapters are recognized automatically and can be adjusted when confirming the outline..docx package), LaTeX package, EPUB 3 ebook (usable for Apple Books, uploading to Kindle/KDP, etc., with figures and equations packaged with the book and inline citations linked to the back-of-book bibliography), and PDF (exported via print layout). Exporting requires a paid plan.Creating a new textbook manuscript requires a paid plan. Monthly credits are valid for 30 days, and additional credit packs can be purchased as needed.
| Plan | Monthly billing | Annual billing | Monthly credits (30-day validity) | Active manuscripts | Translation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | — | 0 | 0 (read sample book only) | No |
| Scholar | $20/month | $120/year | 500 | 1 | Yes |
| Pro | $50/month | $300/year | 2,000 | 5 | Yes |
| Studio | $150/month | $900/year | 7,000 | 20 | Yes |
Credit rules and estimation example:
Start a new manuscript, select the textbook type, enter the course title, and upload your lecture notes, papers (PDF), Word files, Markdown notes, or BibTeX/RIS references. SciVolume drafts a course-aligned chapter outline from your materials; once you confirm the outline, it writes each chapter in the background and attaches source marks to paragraphs drawn from your uploaded notes.
Based strictly on the chapter's body text, each chapter includes: 4–6 learning objectives; a chapter summary with 4–7 key points; 8–15 key terms and definitions; 6–10 exercises (ordered from recall questions to application and analysis, ending with an open-ended question) with reference answers; a 3–5 paragraph case study with 2–3 discussion questions; and 4–8 further reading items chosen exclusively from works cited in the book.
No. During chapter drafting, the workspace searches the scholarly indexes and cites only real works found there or in your uploaded materials. The 4–8 further reading items at the end of each chapter are selected strictly from the literature cited in the book, and the citation audit compares every citation against its source text.
Yes. SciVolume generates a week-by-week course syllabus organized around the book's chapters—defaulting to a 16-week table with columns for Week, Topic, Chapters, and Activities & Assignments—and can also produce accompanying course slides.
On a paid plan, you can export the completed textbook manuscript as a Word (.docx) package, a LaTeX package, an EPUB 3 ebook (ready for Apple Books, uploading to Kindle/KDP, etc., with figures and equations packaged and inline citations linked to the back-of-book bibliography), or a PDF (via print layout). Supported citation styles include APA, Chicago (author-date and notes), MLA, Harvard, IEEE, Nature, and GB/T 7714 (numeric and author-date).
Yes. Paid plans include whole-book translation across six languages: Chinese, English, Japanese, German, French, and Spanish. The translated edition is created as a separate, paragraph-aligned manuscript after you confirm the glossary, with equations, figures, and citations kept in place.
Free accounts include 0 active manuscripts and are limited to reading the public sample book at /demo (no login required). To create a textbook outline and draft chapters, you need a paid plan starting with Scholar at $20/month ($120/year).
Enter a working title and upload your lecture notes to draft a course-sequenced outline, or read the public sample book first with no account needed.