CoLab42.com - How it Works Colab42 facilitates the self-publishing process by connecting writers with creative professionals that can share in the revenues of a book project.

1. The Collaborative Laboratory Publisher
www.colab42.com

2. Colab42 is a collaborative, crowd-sourced publisher
that delivers the support of a BIG publishing house
and the creative control of self-publishing.

3. Writers that choose to self-publish are entering
an increasingly crowded market.

4. …an increasingly crowded and tough market.
41% of self-published authors paid for eBook cover
design; 29% paid for proofreading or editing services.
Those who invested in their work earned approximately
13% more than those who did not.
Less than 10% of self-published authors make enough
money to live off of, and more than half interviewed did
not even recoup their initial investment.
Average investment? $685.
Those who self-published for the first time in 2011
published 2.8 books on average and 90% said they
would continue to do so.
According to the New York Times, “81% of people
believe they have a book in them…and should write it.”
http://www.infodocket.com/2012/10/24/new-statistics-from-bowker-self-publishing-sees-triple-digit-growth-in-just-five-years
Not a Gold Rush – The Taleist Self-Publishing Survey
New York Times

5. Colab42 is a collaborative, crowd-sourced publisher
that delivers the support of a BIG publishing house
and the creative control of self-publishing.
We do it by delivering the services of self-publishing service companies
and the creative crowd-sourcing of sites like Kickstarter.
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Creative Control

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Writers submit a manuscript.

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Author picks creative team members to
work with to deliver a finish project.

8. 3
Authors & Creative Professionals receive
quarterly revenue based on their work.

9. Corporate Indie & SP Service E-Pub Crowd- Self-
Publishers ePublishers Agencies Platforms Funding Publishing Colab42
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