Stumbled upon this gem via @brainpicker's article on Crowdfunding for Creativity. authonomyTM is a writing community for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at HarperCollins. Their goal is to flush out the brightest, freshest new literature around. Basically they want the crowd to spot the next big bestseller. At the end of every month the top 5 ranked books are delivered to the desks of HarperCollins editors. The board reads them and delivers feedback to the author’s authonomy profile. Each book only has one chance at this. In addition, you can submit your own manuscript, get advice, or write reviews of others. This is a fun idea-- there's no way any one editor can interact with all the content available on any given day or read all the thousands of potential books out there. Tapping the crowd for their collective curation seems like a good way to address the problem-- as long as the crowd is educated. Any other publishing companies doing something similar?
Monday, March 14, 2011
HarperCollins crowdsourcing community
Stumbled upon this gem via @brainpicker's article on Crowdfunding for Creativity. authonomyTM is a writing community for writers, readers and publishers, conceived and developed by book editors at HarperCollins. Their goal is to flush out the brightest, freshest new literature around. Basically they want the crowd to spot the next big bestseller. At the end of every month the top 5 ranked books are delivered to the desks of HarperCollins editors. The board reads them and delivers feedback to the author’s authonomy profile. Each book only has one chance at this. In addition, you can submit your own manuscript, get advice, or write reviews of others. This is a fun idea-- there's no way any one editor can interact with all the content available on any given day or read all the thousands of potential books out there. Tapping the crowd for their collective curation seems like a good way to address the problem-- as long as the crowd is educated. Any other publishing companies doing something similar?
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