Get Your Own Personal Exhibition Catalog
Why?
For the museum, it’s a way to sell more books by having different price levels. The visitor gets a chance to personalize their book and get one at the price level they want to spend (not necessarily cheaper.)
How?
Every time the visitor sees an exhibit they would like in their book, they select it (using an app, a special device they get when they enter, etc.) When they finish with the exhibition, they choose the type of book they want (how many pages, size, the amount of text, level of production quality, etc.) and after a short time they can pick it up at the museum shop printed especially for them just the way they wanted.
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Audiobook Highlights and Notes
Why?
You are listening to an audiobook, and you hear something you would like to “highlight” or write a note about.
How?
Have a function in your audiobook player to mark a section of the audiobook, phrase or a short sentence. You should also have an option to add your own note to that “highlighted” section. This – converted to text – should be accessible as a list of marginalia in the book.
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Continue Reading Your Physical Book on Your Ebook Reader
Why?
You are going somewhere and don’t want to carry the physical book with you, but would still want to continue reading it.
How?
A function of the ebook software on your smartphone or tablet that allows you to point the camera at the page you are currently reading in your physical book. The app will recognize it and take you to the same spot in the ebook so you can continue reading.
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Use Strange Book Spines to Increase Sales
Why?
Help customers pay attention to your book.
How?
Before publishing your book, go to bookstores and look at the other books’ spines in the section where your book will be. Then have a spine designed for your book that stands out and would attract customers – something that will be so strange that will make them notice it compared to all other books there.
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Crowd Sourced Book Abstracts
Why?
Get the most important points of the book without needing to read it, then read it if you want to dive deeper.
How?
A website that allows anyone to write a summary of a book (non-fiction, business books, or even fiction) using a template of what needs to be in brief. And of course, anyone can read these summaries to get the gist of the book.
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