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I love this piece in the Washington Post today skewering a culture in Silicon Valley of treating the founders of very questionable start-ups like celebrities when few have actually done anything: “Recently, my friend Dmitry Shapiro asked: “Why are so many great developers spending their time trying to create products specifically designed to addict and help us waste our time?” Along...
read moreAn Open Letter: Hi! We’re co-founders of 24PageBooks, a start-up conceived in 2010 and launched in early 2011. Though we are not a “technology” company, our business model is enabled by technology including the widespread acceptance of eBook formats and access to distribution via cloud-based services like Amazon, Apple iBooks and Nook from Barnes and Noble. And our backgrounds are...
read moreWith the ebook revolution and easy access to worldwide distribution via Amazon, Apple, etc., a lot of people are jumping on the “I don’t need know stinking publishing deal” bandwagon, motivated by stories of authors selling millions of copies of their self-published books. After all, all you need to do is use some format conversion software to turn your Word doc into an ebook...
read moreThat’s the average length of a 24PageBooks project. The average length of a trade paperback how-to book is around 65,000 words or around ten times that. And many are much longer. As we add projects to our list and writers come forward with subjects we’d never have considered but that make perfect sense, we’re still finding no problem with covering a topic in 6000 words. Like...
read moreFYI, For Immediate Release May 19, 2011 Contact: Martin Edic, 585-727-3119, martin@24pagebooks.com http://www.24pagebooks.com Ebook Start-up 24PageBooks Inc. Launches With Funding From Kima Ventures Rochester, NY. With a sea change taking place in the world of traditional book publishing and ebook sales surpassing those of conventional print paperbacks, 24PageBooks inc. is launching it’s...
read moreWe’re just starting to publicize what we’re doing but check back here for the latest coverage across the web, social media and traditional media: Actualitte‘ http://www.actualitte.com/actualite/25875-24-pages-books-editeur-numerique.htm Upstate New York Start-up...
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