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What sort of content? Are the authors known? Do they have some name recognition that can be leveraged?

• kolinko 16y ago
  Are you asking about the authors that I'm already in contact with, or the authors I'm looking for? If you're asking whether the authors I've already struck a deal with are famous - no. One application is a polish travel guide (Wyspa Wolin) and the author had previously written a book on the subject, the other one is a game that has very nice graphics - the author is a painter. Of course I publish information about the authors and their brands. Hopefully the company will get to participate in more and more famous ones. The content I'm looking for - for now it's too early to specialize in just one, so just any content that is not too hard to transform into an application and is not too niche ( polish travel app was too niche :)
  • rmah 16y ago
    You wrote, "for now it's too early to specialize in just one". That's the opposite of commonly recommended strategy. You specialize when you start out, not later on. You diversify when you have some amount of success. Anyway, to answer your original question: go to a bookstore. Contact the author directly with your offer. It's possible the author will have the rights to put the content into an iPhone app. Even if he doesn't, he's probably got lots of other content that hasn't been published. If you want to think bigger, contact the publisher directly. They have lots of authors and you may be able to negotiate a deal. Alternatively, look at websites, blogs and such. Contact those authors.