About completelynovel.com

Welcome to CompletelyNovel; the book publishing innovation centre. The centre is home to a friendly community of book futurists, provides professional book production facilities and a wide variety of reading, publishing and discovery experiences. Our goal and passion is to create the best possible way to get good books to their target audience. The centre has two wings, the hub and the business wing.

The hub is the place for readers and writers. It consists of the readers cafe, the publishing centre, the news room and ‘my home’.

• The readers’ cafe is the place to discover great books, meet exciting people, win fantastic prizes and join interesting conversations. There are tens of thousands of books which can be read online and plenty of helpful and knowledgeable people to discuss and share experiences with. You will also have the chance to meet authors and by reviewing, reading and buying books have your say over which books should be the next best sellers.
• The publishing hub is an advanced book production and distribution facility. It consists of professional tools to publish, distribute and sell your books in paperback, eBook and streamed formats and interactive guides to provide helpful suggestions and tips along your journey. The publishing centre exists symbiotically with the readers cafe and social media services such as twitter and facebook as well as traditional book shops. You will also find interesting tips, questions and debates from professionals and the community about how best to publish your book.
• The news room brings together the latest news from the world of books as well as our blog and guest articles. Expect to find lots of hints, tips and tricks and the latest news from the world of books. If you’ve got an announcement to make this is also the place to do it.
• ‘My Home’ is a place to organise your book life consisting of your own personalised news feed, library and publishing portal. The news feed shows the latest activity from your friends, discussions, articles and books. The library is your personal book organiser; save the page you’re on, interesting sections, comments and reviews. Your publishing portal provides easy management of the books you’ve published, your sales and your marketing campaigns. ‘My Home’ also contains guides to help you get the most from books and profile and respect management tools.

The business wing of the centre is for agents, literary organisations, printers, publishers and many other book services. This part is still under construction but already provides great services for your businesses to promote their services and products as well as discover the best new books and writing talent.

• Printers – provide printing facilities for the publishing centre. Printers must be able to offer true print-on-demand services to offer services to the publishing centre.
• Literary agents – If you are on the hunt for new but proven authors then start an agent account and get in touch with the best new writers. You can see each books sales, page views, author activity and history to make an educated decision. The work can also be previewed online before contacting the author.
• Publishers – CompletelyNovel provides great promotional facilities. Sign up is free and once signed up it is easy to promote books through competitions, video feeds and even post messages and articles to followers. If you are interested in the future of social media book sales please contact us regarding our future BookStreamer partner program.
• Organisations – If you are a writings school, a literary organisation or offering writing services such as proofing, copy editing or cover design you can start a profile to promote your services.

• The web IS the future for books. We will read web-books straight from the internet. We will read them on our phones, tablets and computers. We will have access to millions of web-books at the click of a button. Paper books will be a premium product, downloaded DRM platform locked eBooks will die.
• Technology makes books better and easier. Internet communications between people, companies and machines have enabled writers to publish and promote books in minutes not months. There is no reason why any book should go unseen.
• Together, book futurists will make publishing better. If you have ever thought of a better way to publish books then we need you. We designed CompletelyNovel to empower a creative community to enhance the world of books. Get involved, let people know what you have done, what you think and share your experience as to how to do things better.
• Each book has its own destiny. CompletelyNovel will never take publishing rights or restrict you in any way. If your book is best suited to a publisher we want to help you get there, if it has a niche audience we want to help you find them and sell your book into that audience.

• Technology should make thing simpler. Publishing a book used to require many skilled editors, typesetters and print engineers and many months of work. Now we can produce professional results in 5 minutes and distribute the result all over the world within days. Good technology should empower everyone to perform complex tasks easily, not just geeks. If you can’t use something, tell us and help us make it better for everyone.
• You are the inventor. CompletelyNovel is a community and you are the community. Your thoughts, problems and suggestions shape what you see. Our job is to listen and help you get what you want.
• Over-the-top service. If you’ve got a problem, we’ll solve it. In fact we’ll solve it and then some. Knowing about problems is essential for improvement. If we can’t solve it right away we’ll give you a realistic time frame and try to find an alternate solution for you. Just ask our members about our service.
• Contracts are evil. No one likes small print and sneeky clauses so we’ve kept things simple. There are no contracts: if you sign up for a service you can cancel any time. In our opinion providing a good service and fostering a good relationship is the best kind of contract possible.

If you have any questions about the team, completelynovel or our philosophies then please contact us and we’ll get straight back to you.