Authonomy – Crowdsourcing for books.
September 10th, 2008 • Ideas & Innovation
Spotted on springwise.com – Authonomy is the output of the innovative minds at Harper Collins Publishing house. My mout is salvaiting with the idea of reading the books / excerpts already posted on this site! It is crowdsourcing for books. People/ Writers write about 10,000 words of their novel and upload it on this site. Readers will then read what they find interesting and vote on it. The top 5 books that receive the most votes will be read by the editors at Harper Collins! And well..from there on. .who knows what can happen?
For a writer, the writing part of the book is almost the easiest part. It’s the publishing that kills the spirit. This site, if anything, provides motivation for writers to get published. I’m very interested in seeing how this turns out – many such publishing models have come and gone and failed, but this model with the backing and commitment of a major publishing house behind it might just work.