I like the idea but the site is only in Dutch…
“tenpages.com, for its disruptive new business model that allows aspiring authors to publish the first ten pages of their manuscript on the web. Everyone can buy shares of 5 Euros a piece. When 20.000 shares have been sold within 4 months, the book will be published and distributed.”
At the award ceremony, the founder of tenpages.com announced she expects to expand her activities to other countries soon (hence the .com address of the website). the English speaking market is obviously an attractive one.
BTW – you can view the tenpages.com pitch for the Accenture innovation awards at youtube:
Thanks for that, I’ll keep an eye out the the English launch.