Wil Harris is the CEO of Unbound, a digital publisher with ambitions to disrupt an industry he says is almost unchanged in hundreds of years.
Unbound uses a crowdfunding model to finance the publication of books.
In this episode we talk about:
Why Publishing is “ripe for disruption”
- The risks of running a disruptive player against legacy giants
- The benefits of crowd-funding
- How Unbound’s encouraging wider diversity in authors
- How they’re encouraging big name writers to work with them
- The internet was built for niche communities, and how to appeal to them
- His career from starting one of the world’s first YouTube production companies to books
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