My name is Yann. I am studying at HEC (stands for "Hautes Ecoles de Commerce", it's french) and I have a master in science and executive engineering from Mines Paristech (a french engineer school) . I don't know if you are familiar with the french scholar system but I don't believe that it is very important anyway.
I want to build a plateform that suits the best to french authors and to what they Will need. That is where my idea started. Some of my friends wrote books but they cannot do anything with it. As you surely know, the UK/US market of self-publishing is far in advance from the french one and that is why I am contacting you. I need to know what you want exactly. What kind of website/service would be the most suitable for you, as a UK author.
Don't get me wrong, I am still studying entrepreneurship and I choose this project to be one of my school project to help some of my friends. It was for me a good opportunity to help them by getting my degree. So, my question is NOT how much would you pay for some services because I won't make any money of it. I will create my own company later I believe in one of my passions (spearfishing, skydiving, chess...). I don't know yet but I want to mix both (entrepreneurship and hobby).
Anyway, my goal is to have a UK website working that would be expanded to France when the market will be mature.
The kind of website that I thought of would be proposing visibility. I thought of two kinds of visibility: - elected from readers (they have the power) - new books (if it's good it will do a bump, if it's not the author could change the cover quickly, or change strategy in general)
I think there should be a community of readers,... and authors. It would be free to publish for authors and free to read for readers. Again, it is a school project, the best it will be and the highest my grade will be !
I hope you can give me some ideas, feedbacks/comments... anything. I made a questioner by the way. It would litterary take less than 20 seconds to go through it, I would really appreciate it. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ot5X...
I truly believe we can help each other. Do not hesitate to contact me.
My name is Yann. I am studying at HEC (stands for "Hautes Ecoles de Commerce", it's french) and I have a master in science and executive engineering from Mines Paristech (a french engineer school) . I don't know if you are familiar with the french scholar system but I don't believe that it is very important anyway.
I want to build a plateform that suits the best to french authors and to what they Will need. That is where my idea started. Some of my friends wrote books but they cannot do anything with it. As you surely know, the UK/US market of self-publishing is far in advance from the french one and that is why I am contacting you. I need to know what you want exactly. What kind of website/service would be the most suitable for you, as a UK author.
Don't get me wrong, I am still studying entrepreneurship and I choose this project to be one of my school project to help some of my friends. It was for me a good opportunity to help them by getting my degree. So, my question is NOT how much would you pay for some services because I won't make any money of it. I will create my own company later I believe in one of my passions (spearfishing, skydiving, chess...). I don't know yet but I want to mix both (entrepreneurship and hobby).
Anyway, my goal is to have a UK website working that would be expanded to France when the market will be mature.
The kind of website that I thought of would be proposing visibility. I thought of two kinds of visibility:
- elected from readers (they have the power)
- new books (if it's good it will do a bump, if it's not the author could change the cover quickly, or change strategy in general)
I think there should be a community of readers,... and authors. It would be free to publish for authors and free to read for readers. Again, it is a school project, the best it will be and the highest my grade will be !
I hope you can give me some ideas, feedbacks/comments... anything. I made a questioner by the way. It would litterary take less than 20 seconds to go through it, I would really appreciate it. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ot5X...
I truly believe we can help each other. Do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you for reading this message.
I wish you all to be successfully !