In a handful of years publishing companies will be very different. They will combine on-demand, digital publishing with social media and Crowdsourcing. They will give away Web-based books and short stories in exchange for followers and fans that will then get monetized through physical book sales, Kindle downloads, merchandising and ticket sales.
The future is Media as a Service – with the writer at its epicentre. In the process, writers will, for the first time, garner a direct, scalable relationship with their readers and they will find multiple, diverse mechanisms for monetizing their content. Along the way, they will also gain financial leverage.
A FAIRTRADE for writers.
blur Media is the answer to the question, “How will publishing companies change?”. It is a new, on-demand publisher and book promoter that uses the power of crowdsourcing to discover emerging writers. It provides selected authors with the multi-media platform that they need in this revolutionary digital and social media universe. blur Media combines the wonderful experience of reading a good book, with the community, speed and convenience of the web. Social media style. Centered around the author.
It is what Amazon is not and what Scribd wishes it could be.
By going to blur-Media.net, any writer can sign up for a free, Web-based writer’s studio and get discovered alongside other like-minded, emerging authors, sharing his or her work, knowledge and opinions. They can develop writer and reader groups or promote events. In fact, there is little that they can’t do within this digital writer’s network.
blur Media’s first, emerging author to be plucked from the crowd is Philip Letts, notable artist and entrepreneur, with his debut novel ‘Death in Girotondo’. This fast paced thriller follows Angela’s reckless and alarming ride through the beautiful landscape of the Tuscan countryside and can be read, along with the short story ‘The Last Day’, for free simply by signing up at PhilipLetts.net.
PhilipLetts.net is the first writer’s hub developed by blur Media. It’s the kind of platform that every good writer deserves.