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by chadnickbok
3728 days ago
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Good for you on posting so soon! Must be pretty scary but I'll be nice :) Cool idea - I've always loved reading through the Hugo Awards each year to find new books, but I can never really trust that they're doing a great job. And sometimes Amazon does an even better job, recommending books like The Martian before anyone I knew had even heard of it. What do you imagine 'Premium Content' being? And how do you think you can differentiate from what platforms like Amazon Kindle are doing? You say your background is a game developer - care to expand a little? It seems like something like this would need lots of web development and payments integrations; when you say something like Steam, would this be primarily a website or a desktop app? And would it let me get things in formats I can easily put on my Kindle/e-reader/iPad? Are those formats difficult to generate or pretty straightforward? |
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Imagine that you were reading Game of Thrones, you might consider paying a dollar to read an extra chapter about the Iron Islands. Perhaps a short story of a Greyjoy adventure.
We would be different to Amazon simply because the structure is very different. Most of our content will be free. Our focus will be on building a fanbase for the author, and selling those fans special privileges.
I've been a game developer for many years. I worked for about 10 years on AAA games like Bioshock for Irrational Games and 2K, but about 5 years ago I went indie. I have 2 web games online right now. Neptune's Pride and Blight of the Immortals, both are large web apps with lots of moving parts like payment integrations. www.ironhelmet.com
I think the core technology would be a web app, but we would bundle it as a native app where that makes sense (mobile).
I'm not 100% sure how easy it is to push content to a users kindle directly (which would be ideal), but putting text in an open format and emailing it to them is very easy. I only read on my Kindle these days, and I think one of the core challenges would be to work out how to make it easy for users to spend money with us when they are sitting on the couch with a kindle, not sitting at their PC.