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Long Tail GraphPreserving knowledge

BiblioLabs LLC is a hybrid software-media company, with a focus on using technology to give new life to historic books and other media. While there are tens of millions of books that are currently out-of-print and/or copyright, the high cost of manually recreating these works has resulted in only the most promising works getting resources for digitization and marketing. And how exactly does one determine which books have the most “promising” potential?  The Company took a decidedly different approach.

Selling Books on The Long Tail
When the Internet enabled the discovery of books in an unconstrained manner, a new market was born called the Long Tail. The Long Tail represents products that have a long shelf-life, but that typically sell in small quantities.

The BiblioLabs team decided to build a system that greatly reduced the cost of publishing any book, and thereby takes the risk out of the selection process. Moreover, it is a system that actually shares both the risk and the reward with the libraries and other institutions who have worked so long and hard to preserve this content.

Global Book Manager (GBM)
The company developed a scalable enterprise software application suite called Global Book Manager (GBM) that provides an end-end-end solution for the creation, marketing, enrichment and distribution of historic content.  While the Company’s BiblioLife digitization platform is decentralized (located anywhere in the world, thereby keeping costs down and protecting the historic content), the GBM platform is centralized inside a secure, scalable and proprietary data center, where large banks of computers can work on the content creation process 24 hours a day. The benefits to partners and customers include:

  • The highest possible quality product for consumers, with vigorous quality assurance standards
  • Availability of content in a wide variety of trim sizes (regular and large size), binding types (paperback and hardcover), formats (print and e-books) and languages
  • Broad content distribution, with availability in over 4,000 retailers, web sites and distributors
  • A wide variety of attractive book cover templates, including custom cover designs for unique collections
  • The ability for strategic retail partners to customize and/or co-brand the product
  • A content enhancement platform (BiblioLIfe) that allows institutions and web communities to earn revenue by adding valuable information about the product and thereby improve searchability and sales