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document Distributed Knowledge, Tools
The point of difference for uTales is that their books are created by a growing worldwide community of more than 1,000 professional authors and illustrators and the company is looking to an...
document Distributed KnowledgeThe project in many ways is similar to Jeff Howe’s 1book140 club at The Atlantic, but perhaps more structured. 1book140 is more of a true crowdsourced book club, where the titles are chosen through...
document Distributed KnowledgeTrueCaller uses crowdsourcing to ask people to opt in by sharing their phone book. The more people share, the more accurate the information becomes. Zarringhalam’s aim is to create a complete...
document CrowdfundingThough Sweeney already had the boat and the books (people give him books, he said, as soon as they hear he’s a librarian), the Story Sailboat needed new sails to be safe for longer trips and...
document Crowdfunding, ToolsTenPages.com was launched in February 2010 as the first professional crowdfunding platform in the worldwide book publishing industry. The launch generated a surprising amount of media coverage in...
document Crowdfunding
"I've been doing this art for years and now I want to bring it out to a wide audience, but I want to do that in a way that's accessible to everyone. Fine artists and photographers...
article Distributed Knowledge
In 1879, James Murray, a leading member of the British Philological Society who edited the first edition of the O.E.D.,put out “An Appeal to English Speaking Readers,”asking for volunteers to...
article Crowd Creativity, Distributed KnowledgeHine challenged Zooppa's global community of creative talent to produce ads promoting his debut novel Russell Wiley is Out to Lunch - an edgy corporate satire that reflects on the challenges...
document Crowd CreativityAnyone can enter a short story in the competition for free and the public can vote on their favourites. If you wish to submit a short story or vote for one, start by creating a free account at...
blog Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
Community members joined the crowd to help develop a future neighborhood that focused on the “triple bottom line” of “people, planet, profit.“ Cooltown used Ning as the online space for gathering...
document Distributed Knowledge, Open Innovation
At BookHunch readers can invite their friends, share notes, and discuss the ebooks they’re reading. It’s also possible just to read the book and ignore all the community aspects of the site, so...
document Distributed KnowledgeA new startup called The Wisdom of Others is taking this one step further by allowing you to take those words, bundle them up, and have them printed into a keepsake-quality book that you’ll be able...
document Crowd Creativity, Open Innovation, Tools
Teaming up with Blurb to ‘print the most amazing Santa photo book ever made’, photo app Shoebox needs your help to find and submit the weirdest, funniest or most awkward Santa photos you can...
document Crowd Creativity, Open InnovationThis striving for innovation led Denison to one of the project’s most innovative aspects. Denison has put out an open call for any ambitious artist to sign-up to the site and upload their...
document CrowdfundingThis fits Unbound's basic model which is to hand select the books they will crowdfund and then to produce the books themselves making them available in hardback and ebook editions.The book...
site Crowdfunding / Investing (Equity, Profit and Revenue Sharing)
Our mission:
1/ propose a dedicated website and an audience to unpublished authors
2/ federate a strong community of enthusiats and supporters (investors) on new book projects
3/ publish and...
document Crowdfunding
Locally Delicious Inc., an Arcata-based nonprofit advocacy group for healthy local foods in Humboldt County, has begun fundraising for their latest book, “Lunchbox Envy.” The organization aims to...
blog Crowdfunding
UK-based crowdfunding site Unbound, which represents itself as a Kickstarter exclusively for books. The site acts as both a fundraider and a publishing house all in one, allowing to get people...
document Crowdfunding
“We feel there are several small factors that set Black Salt apart from other comics. First, there is still a big demand for the action martial arts genre. This genre is a niche target market of...
document Crowdfunding
Ratti Entertainment LLC, is turning to the Internet to raise money to complete the six issue comic book series/graphic novel entitled “Black Salt; The Last Heroes Left”. The comic book story is...