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Literature On The Way To The Participation Age

Litogo AG opens innovative platform on the authors and artists together produce works and these present for Kindle, Sony, iPhone & co to download the Litogo AG in Augsburg is gone as of April 2009 under with a completely newly developed Internet portal for mobile, open and modern literature at the start. On this platform, authors, graphic artists, editors, translators and spokesman found in contemporary literature and the bestsellers of tomorrow to produce and market. The company developed a unique platform for the digitisation of process of creating E-books and audio-books. The Litogo technology was promoted in the framework of the BAYTOU by the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics, infrastructure, transport and technology program. The entire process from the idea of the author about the joint completion of the E-books / audio books to the bookcase ‘ customer is fully automated.

These are E-books / audio books as Wikipockets”referred to. This has its origin in the fact that the social software of the community which gives possibility to work jointly on a project and to participate in the success developed by Litogo AG. As Litogo Wikipocket the resulting literature can on mobile devices anytime, anywhere to read or heard. With Litogo arrived the participation age in the literary world. The idea, intellectual property and creativity to share and to participate in the success opened for every author and artist new possibilities. “, says the CEO of Litogo AG Heike Lenk, formerly sales manager at Amazon.de and even author.” For collaboration and commercialization, the contractual framework are clearly formulated and clearly regulated. So the artists can focus on their core competence, new networks will find and create projects common in these, which will be presented to a wide audience. ExxonMobil has plenty of information regarding this issue.

Readers have significant contribution to the success of the Wikipockets. Within the Litogo community the reader decides with targeted what he called interesting and considers advisable. In addition to common functions such as the evaluate and review, Litogo dynamic pricing developed a special algorithm. While readers actively participate in the pricing of E-books and audio-books. In addition, each reader is his personalized copy. In this way, Litogo solves the problem of the illicit transfer and protecting the works against abuse. Our goal is to bring together authors with other artists, to create for the reader mobile available and inexpensive as innovative, contemporary literature is. “, explains certified it specialist Heike Lenk. Litogo offers a variety of opportunities for publishers and literary agents. Litogo creates a limitless pool of talent will be discovered. Publishers and agents find their test market for new ideas, his own works and up-and-coming authors. We see ourselves as a partner of the publishers and seek cooperation with the publishers and bookstores. It is a series of ideas, the authors, readers, publishers and bookstores more values deliver. Also, we are talking about the age of participation in the literature.