There are many digital book readers starting to show up in the marketplace and many people are happy with this. Digital books are environmentally friendly, easy to store and never get drawn on by your nephews and nieces.
Newly released books are supplied in digital format on release but what about all of the old books?
There is a price involved in digitising and the investment in the digitisation process is based on the potential digital market for the particular work.
But now there is an opportunity to invest in the digitisation of a book and to benefit from that investment.
Invest in Knowledge is a new, innovative (patent pending) initiative introduced by Kirtas in conjunction with the company’s Digitise on Demand program and retail Website, www.kirtasbooks.com. The program allows anyone to subsidise the digitisation of the world’s knowledge one book at a time.
Kirstabooks handle all of the legal frameworks checking that there has been no previous digital translation, arranging royalty fee's with the author/publisher adding your royalty fee to the books listing to ensure that your fee is paid and submitting the new digital book to the digital book library.
Anyone who purchases a book to be digitised, through the Invest in Knowledge initiative, from Kirtasbooks.com will receive a reprint of that book, as well as 5% of all future sales of that book through that website. Cost is dependent on the size of the book so a quote is given for each digitisation. Consumers can invest in as many books as they would like.
“This is such a tremendous opportunity for the average consumer to help support and fund the digitization of some amazing collections of books,” noted Tom DeMay, Vice President, Business Development. “So not only are consumers doing the right thing, but if they want to ask ‘what’s in it for me?’ We can give you a great answer. Several titles or one popular book could provide a nice return on investment over time, creating a true lifelong investment in knowledge.”
“This is the first mass digitization program that will make unique collections available to the public in a way that increases access, achieves preservation, and benefits at the same time the library, its patrons and the general consumer,” said Kirtas Founder and CEO Lotfi Belkhir. “And it does so without compromising quality or the ownership rights of the libraries to their digitised content.” To learn more about Invest in Knowledge, invest in a book or set up an account, visit www.kirtasbooks.com.
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