Unbound crowd-sourced kickstarter-style publishing model
ARTICLE HERE: http://www.fastcompany.com/1769453/unbounds-spine-tingling-effort-to-reinvent...
" Unbound publishing, the Kickstarter for books, just had its very first success: It reached its target so that it could produce and then publish a new book by none other than Terry Jones, of Monty Python fame. Why is the tech and publishing world so excited about a single book from a lone, unheard-of, pint-sized publisher? Because the whole principle behind Unbound is to take the ancient, leather-bound business model of book publishing, rip out its crumbling pages, and replace it with crowd-funding, social interaction, and tandem digital publications and real hardback books. ..."