Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Book Crowdfunding Platform Pentian Pays Writers and Readers


Spain's Pentian crowdfunding platform for books offers a new business model: paying 50% of profits from book sales to backers of the book and 40% to the author.

With Pentian's model for crowdsourcing books, it turns the backer into a self-interested investor. But like with any investment, one must be willing to gamble.

James Zirn's "Mother Court," a history of legal cases in the the Southern District of New York, recalls a failed attempt to censor Joyce's "Ulysses" in the US.
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Startup Crowd the Book launched in March, is using selective, online marketing to try and "create a wildfire around great books published by small presses."

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