quillp made it to the Seedcamp finals
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008Seedcamp has announced its finalists and we’re thrilled to be among the 22 teams out of the 380 startups who applied who are invited to the Seedcamp Week September 15th-19th in London. Judging by the program and the high-profile-panel it promises to be a very exciting one for sure! We’re looking forward to meeting all [...]
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quillp featured in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung
Monday, August 18th, 2008Yesterday quillp was featured in the German weekly Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. On page 68 quillp is described as “ambitious platform connecting readers, authors, and publishers [...] A well thought-out algorithm matches people with a similar taste in books. Authors can publish their manuscripts on quillp; publishers can discover authors and contact them. The features are [...]
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Open beta coming up
Friday, August 8th, 2008A little over a month after our closed beta launch we’ve incorporated a lot of your great feedback and quite a lot of things we wanted to put in place prior to opening quillp up to the public. Thanks a lot for all your great ideas and please keep them coming!
Aside from a number of [...]
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How to read a book
Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008Our closed beta is humming along nicely and the first quillpers seem to have a lot of fun stacking up their virtual libraries and browsing their closest library match’s libraries for new book ideas. In just one day (actually in just an hour of one day) Katja and Marcel have taken us by storm, dwarfing our libraries which [...]
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Closed beta - here we come
Friday, June 27th, 2008Over the last couple of months everybody here has put in crazy hours to turn quillp from an idea into reality. In the next couple of days we will be starting to send out invitations for our closed beta - on a small scale for now to test the performance and to get rid of [...]
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2.8 million trees cut down for books that nobody reads
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Aside from spotting talented new authors publishers have the problem of projecting the sales of the books they publish to plan the print-runs accordingly. Due to the lack of reliable predictions the opportunity costs of running out of books because they’re sold out are usually higher then printing more books and pulping the unsold copies [...]
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