Projekt HSK

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Illiteracy: the inability to read and write a simple message in any language. What about "unscholarity"? One of four persons did not read a book in a year... 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college - Jenkins Group 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year - Jenkins Group

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On the other hand... More than half of us would like to write a book someday - The Guardian (2009.) 11% of those surveyed have made it as far as finishing the manuscript but have "not yet found a way to get it published" Female themes: mistery novel or crime thriller Male themes: SF&F

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Some statistics for Croatia 40% of urban population read one or more books a month, average is 3 books/year (GFK) 47% of buyers are impulse buyers Bestsellers range in 10.000 - 40.000 copies sold Other authors range in 1.000 - 5.000 copies sold, often as little as 500 Expected revenue for author: 1$-2$ per book sold (7-10% of book price), average book price is 14$ Publishers are very picky Publishers don't read all the material Sometimes, author has to pay to get his/her book published and advertised Absurd prices for self-publishing: up to 70$ per book just for printing (an extreme case) Average prices for self-publishing: 6-10$ per book (printing)

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Reasons for Projekt HSK: - quick, globally affordable service for self-publishing in few easy steps: disintermediation - no IT skills required (well, just a little bit) - low prerequisites for publishing, moderate prerequisites for reading, will drop significantly in a few years - books in your pocket, they go everywhere with you, available in an instant - quick and painless publishing on global market - focus on ideas and creativity, not on technology - people will read more if they write more: a "neighbour writer" effect - added value trough advanced services - possibility to actually sell books with very little investment and reasonable revenue (about 60% of book price)

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Technical details - automated creation and publication of e-book - forum for authors and readers - promotion of e-books - free ebook framework for everyone - commercial add-on services - open framework (multimedia, apps...)

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Already done in this beta: universal ebook application web site forum

Will be done: - automated e-book creation - possibility to sell books for $$$ (or )

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Universal e-book application

http://bit.ly/JEBY7e

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Web site & forum:

http://projekthsk.org/

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What we stand for: - promoting reading trough writing - e-books should be affordable - easily publishing on global market - no technical skills (we will do that for you) - encouraging creativity

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What we stand against: - we do not believe in DRM - e-books should not cost as mush as printed books - hate speech, racism, other unpleasant things

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What we need:

Authors who would help us build this project into something great.

Or at least publish some books with us while we're in beta.

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