The document proposes a social media platform that allows authors to write books with input from readers. Authors can publish draft chapters for readers to comment on and suggest improvements to help shape the story. Readers can also financially support authors. The platform aims to help emerging authors connect with readers and publishers more easily.

1. Social Driven Book Writing
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2. The idea is to provide an application, available both
on desktop and mobile, that allows authors to
write a book with the help of the community and
the power of social networks, in order to have a
direct feedback (already in the process of writing
the text) from users.
IDEA
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3. •Sometimes writers which are promising do not
write because it is not their main profession
•Be famous among the public is complex
•It is difficult to get in touch with publishers
•Publishers find it difficult to find new authors
•The credibility of emerging authors is difficult to
verify
THE PROBLEMS WE AIM TO SOLVE
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4. We have defined 3 kinds of users:
•Authors
•Readers (and editors)
•Tycoon (funders)
•Publishers
THE USERS
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5. •They register themself and begins to write their own
book / story
•The editing of the story takes place directly in the
application
•At any time you can stop the authoring and it may be
restart in comfort when and where is preferred
•There is a version control system and revision
management
•There is support from editors
AUTHORS
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6. •Comment and rate individual paragraphs and / or
chapters
•Suggest changes
•Suggest how to continue the story
•Propose alternatives to a part of story
•Can turn into authors
•Can continue the story of another user
READERS
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7. •Users that are financially supporting the authors
•They can offer a coffee (symbolic support and signal
choice)
•They may finance the writing of a story
•If they are publishers they can make proposal for
publication
TYCOON
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8. •They have the ability to access the statistics of the
authors
•They can be financing a book
•They can make proposals to authors
THE PUBLISHERS
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9. •When the collection will begin to be vast, we can
create a marketplace for ebooks.
FUTURE IMPROVEMENT
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10. Eugenio Minardi
http://twitter.com/kmox83
http://linkedin.com/in/eugeniominardi
Lenka Solmosiova
http://sk.linkedin.com/pub/lenka-solmosiova/2a/83a/455
Marcello Minardi
http://twitter.com/MaMinardi
http://linkedin.com/in/marcellominardi
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