Booktrope
Publishing reinvented, using today’s web-based tools for book development, production and marketing.
- Stage Full Product Ready
- Industry Other
- Location Seattle, WA, USA
- Currency USD
- Founded January 2011
- Employees 8
- Website booktrope.com
Company Summary
Booktrope is the creator of Team Publishing - a low-overhead network of autonomous creative teams who create/market books (team includes author, editor, marketing manager and designer). Teams are paid with royalties on sales. Revenues are from sales of ebooks and print-on-demand books, so over 90% of product costs do not occur until after sale. Our simple model is easily scalable using online collaboration tools and new book technologies.
Team
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Katherine Fye SearsCo-Founder/CMO
Formerly Marketing Manager at NetApp, ADIC, Siemens, founder of Kantrak.
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Ken ShearCo-Founder/CEO
Formerly led e-discovery startups (EED, SPI Litigation Direct), author, attorney.
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Andy RobertsCTO
Formerly Dir of Development at TSS, a lead gen B2B startup that recently exited for $230M and earlier, web architect at IBM, UPS, NBA.com.
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Heather LudvikssonCOO
Formerly Business Analyst and Global Strategic Marketing Manager at Kimberly Clark
Advisors
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Stephan Coonrod K&L GatesLawyerUnconfirmed
Previous Investors
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Friends/Family/FoundersUnconfirmed
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