Working at home as a writer? Got a book in progress? HarperCollins uses "cloudvoting" to discover new authors at their beta site Authonomy.
There, you can upload 10,000 words of your book-in-progress. (The only rule is that it be in English. Authors can keyboard in from anywhere.) If website visitors like the sample, you rise to the top and HarperCollins takes note. If they like your stuff, you make it into print.
Meanwhile on the Continent, at TenPages, you can crowdsource your book. How? Get people to buy shares in your budding manuscript. If you sell 2,000 shares in four months, your book gets put into production at one of TenPages' partner publishers. In effect, early readers become investors in the book, and can earn 10% "for up to four years." (At least, that's what Springwise tells me. The TenPages site is in Dutch, and I couldn't find an English version. Alas, I don't have time to run it through translation, either. I'm working on a book!)
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