An integrated software system that searches the Internet for related content, fetches it, builds it into an attractive book and places that book into an e-bookstore in ~ 60 seconds per book.
Power tool to empower readers, authors, publishers, and booksellers
A firehose to pump differentiated content into online bookstores in response to demand
Test Books
IMPERFECT JUSTICE Anticipated: The Caylee Anthony Omnibus
Mix & Match – 18 docs about the case
$2.99, 48 US, 3 UK; 25 in release month for IMPERFECT JUSTICE
Test Books
The Battlecruiser Omnibus
Everything in Wikipedia about battlecruisers (121 docs)
$4.99; 153 sales in US, 51 in UK from 5/11 through 4/11 = $38/month
Other Examples
The attack on Pearl Harbor can be summarized by a single Wiki entry but that leaves out the histories of the ships that were attacked, the oral histories from survivors of the attack, the timeline of the attack, the Congressional review of the attack, profiles of the Japanese attackers (carriers and planes), and so on, including rich media.
Romney & Bain Capital: not just Wiki sources, but public documents, permissioned content, links to news a la Instagram; NCP e-books could be automatically updated on server side and refreshed when user connects.
B2B verticals: assemble high-value reports summarizing results of public contents plus API links to proprietary databases held by partners.
Build books in volume Each $200/cloud
server can build 3000 Readers or 300 one-million-word Explorers a day
Goal is to exceed Amazon's 30,000 public domain titles and 120,000 under $2.99 within first year of operations
Books are built both by editors and programmatically
Can build hundreds of books from single list of keywords at one push of a button
Revenue streams Direct sales to readers
Power workbench for authors & publishers
Software as a Service to small and medium publishers
Customer acquisition & sales velocity for online booksellers
– New readers stock up with inexpensive content
– Existing readers visit more often
– $ value is multiple of average revenue per user x incremental users and visits attributable to increased content selection
Status
Alpha software, prerevenue spinoff from small publisher Nimble Books LLC
Feasibility of technical concept is established
Next steps: operationalize, acquire alpha customers, test business models, establish long tail revenue parameters
How to get there faster
Angel investment 3 Python developers ($100K/FTE), each
focused on:– Search & fetch content
– Build quality improvements for e-books
– Commerce & data mining 1 UI designer ($100K/FTE), strong tech skills
in CSS, JavaScript, PHP 1 customer service/admin person ($75K FTE) Preferred pipeline to major online bookseller
or distributor Office space Fee-based professional services Direct costs are low: $200/month for each new
cloud server (scale with growth)
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