![]() ![]() He added that the company is also pairing its authors with Authoright, which provides public relations services to self-published and traditionally published authors. When asked about the kind of marketing support that the company provides for its authors, Rosenheim said it is “still early days” and gave few specifics, aside from noting that WEbook will provide support for digital and social marketing “specifically” through Twitter and Facebook. WEbook claims that, thus far, its reader community has cast over 830,000 votes. ![]() The algorithm, Rosenheim added, “is several pages long, as there are potentially hundreds of elevating factors involved in the various rounds.” (Most published WEbook authors have priced their hardcovers at $20, paperbacks at $10, and e-books at $5.) Explaining the process by which titles rise to the top, Rosenheim said that users vote (there are staffers who ensure that “no voting conspiracies” unfairly launch titles to the top) and then the site’s Page to Fame algorithm takes over. The company covers everything from cover design to POD and marketing. The WEbook contract offers authors 85% royalty rates, and the ability to price their own content (the only proviso being that print titles cannot be priced below manufacturing costs). ![]() Thus far, the company has published seven titles, and Rosenheim confirmed that 10 more will be released in “the next few months.” The published titles are all available for purchase directly from the site, and through Amazon. Users can rate the projects posted, and the most highly rated titles are published by WEbook. It hosts a variety of content-fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenplays are its four categories-with over 66,000 “projects” available for reading. (Since the site was offline for some time, Rosenstein’s team had to rebuild the original database, and some content was lost in the process.) All users can now access the site for free. The new WEbook went live, quietly, in April 2013, and it currently has over 140,000 registered users. ![]()
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