Readerie

Share your ebookshelf. Earn income.

  • Stage Product In Development
  • Industry Retailing / Distribution
  • Location Honolulu, HI, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded January 2011
  • Employees 4
  • Website readerie.com

Company Summary

Readerie is crowdsourced rental ebooks - a platform for authors and publishers to increase ebook distribution by crowdsourcing a reader’s existing social networks. Users share their ebookshelf through existing social networks. They get rewarded every time a friend rents an ebook through their personal library collection and the publishers get paid every time an ebook is passed along and read.

Team

  • Russel Cheng
    Co-founder

    Co-founder @Readerie; Co-founded @XM Asia, acquired by WPP Group; Founded @Organic Asia, IPO in 2000; Worked at @Microsoft, Beacon Communications/Leo Burnett Japan.

  • Arnie Yew
    Co-founder, CEO

    Founder @Readerie • Worked at @Ogilvy and Mather, @Grey Advertising / G2 • Studied at @University of Hawaii, Manoa

Advisors

  • Greg Kim, Shannon Pierce
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Bootstrapped
    Unconfirmed
    Yew Family Office, Singapore
    Unconfirmed

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