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Readers: Discover new books matching your taste
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It’s about discovering books and authors and about providing you with a platform for letting your talent as an author shine - without the traditional limitations of the publishing industry.
Publishers fail to indentify talented authors
As we’ve seen many of our friends’ great stories get turned down time and time again from publishers we decided to take a closer look. The results were astonishing: if many agents and publishers would have had their say worldwide bestsellers like J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter, Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park, Patrick Süskind’s Parfum and many more would not have been published either. Harry Potter was even turned down twelve times – most of the people we know would have given up trying long before that. At the same time too many books are published that nobody reads; this amounts to about 3 million trees that are being cut down annually just for the paper of returned books of the US alone.
Self-publishing fails to create relevance for readers
As print-on-demand publishers, an alternative to the traditional publishers, clearly are not a very attractive option to new authors either with sales of just two copies per book published on average, we decided something had to change fundamentally to open new ways for authors to reach their readers. As Scott Bradner once said on the internet you don’t have to convince anyone that something is a good idea before trying it: traditional publishers have to try to predict the potential of a new manuscript carefully as substantial investments are involved with publishing a book. More often than not those projections are completely wrong. Those investments don’t exist for publishing on the internet or print-on-demand. As the limited momentum of print-on-demand proves, howe -
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