[cuchoperl]

Hello, we want to share with the HN community our startup, Pictorical.

We are two nomadic entrepreneurs from Chile, and a growing community of artists worldwide. We illustrate classic stories, publish them as ebooks (in Apple iBookstore- Kindle and Google coming soon) and sharing the profits with the artists fifty-fifty. Artists then can earn money doing art, thats quite difficult for them.

We look forward to your constructive feedback!

[nandemo]

Saludos!

Great idea. The book covers on the front page look nice too.

1) $0.99? Why so cheap? For reference the Kindle edition of "A Hunger Artist" costs $2.99.

2) Any plans of selling dead-tree books using a print-on-demand service like Lulu? Some of us still like the feeling of good old paper books. I realize it might be much more expensive but with print-on-demand you have little risk.

[cuchoperl]

Hola!

1. We will probably be selling longer books a little bit more expensive. We can't forget we are competing against free ebooks!

2. Yes, we will sell illustrated paper books in the near future. And also t-shirts and all sort of things with your favorite illustrations.

Thanks for the feedback!

[petervandijck]

If you're selling books, you're not competing against free ebooks. People who buy free ebooks are not necessarily the same people that pay money for books.