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Maybe a good YC candidate? :)

• petercooper 17y ago
  http://www.inkling.com/ http://www.inkling.com/ is doing stuff like this for textbook authors and publishers. But, yeah, totally. It's not just all about typography, editing, etc, but the interaction design too. There are lots of opportunities to pioneer here, even down to producing individual book apps for the regular app store (so iPhone users can read too, or for better interfaces).
• chromatic 17y ago
  I've considered selling editorial services. I haven't figured out how to market them, though -- nor a cost strategy.
  • stan_rogers 17y ago
    You might try checking the existing services selling on, say, Lulu.com -- there are a number of price points with various expectations of service, from the merely editorial to editorial/design/typography, and covering the gamut from the family Christmas album to multi-volume academic tomes. There's got to be a niche or two that isn't being hit or that could use a competitive bump or two. If you can offer Kindle-formatted and Mobipocket in addition to the standard PDF (and make 'em all work right and look good), there's a bit of value-added right there. (And if you can build a tool set to do the majority of the grunt work, you can do it either more cheaply or in higher volumes than the competition.) I'd do it myself, but I'm the type who can "correct" a Douglas Adams until it reads like The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and I'd have to pay people for the privilege (negative pricing).