WEBook

December 30th, 2008 in Writing, by Head Honcho

http://www.webook.com

“I have to admit. I have always had closet fantasies of being a writer.” – Blogger, Genealogy Reviews Online

Anyone who loves writing might agree to what the blogger said. We might just have the same closet fantasies of being a writer – a well-known writer with best-seller books that are made into movies. But the road to having a book published is a long, winding one. And most would not dare tread the path and will just have to settle being a coder, a bartender, a homemaker and the likes.

What if there is a platform that would gather up these folks and all the other kinds of writers out there into one community that just might help them in getting a book published – turning a two-year self-publishing struggle into just two months? I am sure you would like to check it out.

WEbook is an online book publishing platform, a collaborative writing website and a social networking community all wrapped into one. It allows enthusiasts to meet, write, react, and think together to create a writing project – essays, thrillers, short stories, books, etc.

Users can start using WEbook as an interactive platform with great tools for “anyone who has something to say”. Writers, editors, readers, thinkers, teachers and students can all use WEbook for free of charge. And the benefits for joining WEbook are numerous.

How does it work? Writers start a project and have an option to invite other people of collaboration on the project. The completed item will then be opened for ratings, reviews, comments or feedback. This is now the part where crowdsourcing comes in and becomes of use in leveraging the crowd to rate and vote their favorite work. The best ones will then be, at WEbook’s discretion, published. Once the author or authors choose to publish using WEbook, they “share 50 percent of the profit on sales with the author and the book’s major contributors as a fee for publishing the title”.

Since its launch on April 2008, WEbook had become home to thousands of users who used the site’s free-of-charge services. They have published their first fiction book called “Pandora” collaboratively written by 39 authors then distributed by Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.

As the women behind WEbook mentioned – writers care a lot about their rights. Below is a video about rights and legal details for WEbook authors.

Currently, the community members in WEbook have just recently voted on these projects for publishing: Shirt for Dessert – a charming, rhyming children’s book; The Legend of Vinny Whiskers - brings to life a compelling, complex, and fully-realized animal society; and 101 Things Every Man Should Know How to Do – authored by nine women and nineteen men from locales as widespread as France, England, Austria, Korea, and New Jersey.