Litnet is literary marketplace which allows authors to monetize their books at any stage of writing. Our model of distribution decrease the problem of piracy and couldn´t be easily copied by traditional e-book stores (Kindle, iBooks, Tolino). We sell the ebook a step before the traditional ebook stores and get main revenues from sales.
Current Status
Three language versions are launched: - Russian (July 2015) - Spanish (February 2018) - Ukrainian (February 2018)
200 000 - daily users ~$1,5M - turnover in 2017 ~$100K - net profit in 2017
Market
English language - ~$7000M German language - ~$600M Spanish language - ~$90M Russian language - ~$60M
Spanish language, Turkish, Indonesian etc. have high level of ebook reading but piracy is very big problem. We plan to creat new markets of the legal distribution on the territories with high level of piracy.
Problem or Opportunity
Piracy is the main problem of digital books. Advertising costs are too high for literature digital goods because they need to compete with more profitable businesses (online and mobile gaming).
Solution (product or service)
1. Piracy. We give the rightsholder (author or publisher) to publish the ebook part by part. Readers have to pay once(!) the price of the book and get access to the book. They become the followers who read the new episode when the rightsholder publish it. So the book is selling but doesn't appear in the pirate libraries because they publish the full text only. So the book is protected from piracy for the first 2-3 months - the time of highest interest and sales.
2. Promo. Readers visit the Litnet every day because they follow the updates of the books. The rightsholders may propose new books for their readers because they have them as followers. It works like a social network contacts. And all these promo activities are very targeted and free.
Competitors
E-book stores such as: Kindle store LitRes iBooks
Crowd-publishing platforms: Wattpad FanFiction
Literary communities: Goodreads LiveLib
Advantages or differentiators
We combine best features of all our competitors bulding a literary network where writer may: - publish books (sell or publish them for free) - network with readers and colleagues - sale book even on the stage of part-by-part publishing
Finance
Monthly turnover of Russian version is ~$260K Everage price of the book is $1,67
Business model
Sales comission (common for all marketplaces) Advertising Social networking (sales of rewards)
Money will be spent on
New market penetration
Offer for investor
We propose a company share and strong vision of future exit for both of us (founders and investors)
