Always Fresh Books
Why?
Books, even ebooks are fixed things. What you get is a finite product of that edition. Most likely by the time you read it, at least some things have changed.
How?
Create a format that allows the author to push new editions to current buyers of previous versions. The reader will get an alert that he has now a new edition; a brief description of the changes and additions; and the possibility to read any of the editions published, and at any point also see the current text’s other edition versions.
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Sunscribe to Someone’s Marginalia Feed
Why?
Reading a book and seeing someone’s marginalia gives a whole new experience to reading the book.
How?
Have a service that extracts your highlights and notes you make while reading ebooks. You can also input marginalia of real books you read. You then publish the feed to your marginalia and others can subscribe to it and see it on their ebook reader as they read the book. They can subscribe to marginalia from multiple people and see all of them while reading the book.
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Hyperlinking of Ebooks
Why?
It would be very beneficial if while reading a book you could not just highlight and make notes about a passage in the book, but also link it to another passage in another book.
How?
Have a new protocol for linking between ebooks. Something that is a standard and works on most platforms like iBooks, Kindle, etc. Make it possible to share these links with others.
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Use Online Content Marketing Techniques to Make Book Publishing Success
Why?
It’s is hard to get people to buy and read your book – you need to convince them it’s worth their money and time.
How?
Content marketing is excellent at distributing your presence and creating entrance points for potential buyers. Use the same techniques to get people excited and buy your book. Use a combination of parts of the book and new content to establish many points where buyers will meet your book and enter the funnel. Then use all the other content that you already created (again, parts of the book and new content) to automatically feed the new potential buyer and lure them closer and closer to buying it. You can use whole chapters from the book if they can stand on their own as interesting and useful, or create a special version that can do that. This process can start (it’s better this way) before the book is published.
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How to Help Someone With …
Why?
You have a friend going through a bad period or experience (health, emotional, financial, etc.) How can you help them?
How?
A website, app or even a book, with helping guides for many situations you might find yourself in with your friends and family.
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