BookBrewer in Alpha Testing

On Monday, we began accepting alpha testers to our first "brew" on FeedBrewer. It's an eBook-creation service called BookBrewer. If you joined our alpha testing list here on FeedBrewer you should already have received an invitation to the BookBrewer alpha, but if not please let me (Dan Pacheco) know and I'll hook you up. I can be reached at dan at feedbrewer dot net.

I'm personally excited about BookBrewer for one simple reason: eBooks are a paid-content model that actually works. We did a lot of market research for this product, and the growth in eBook sales -- at the expense of printed books, I might add -- is already incredible. Read more about that on this post on the BookBrewer blog.

But in addition to that, we get a warm and fuzzy feeling knowing that the next J.K. Rowling or Dan Brown may emerge through a grass-roots service like BookBrewer. I and my two co-founders are not only technologists -- we're creatives. All three of us have musical backgrounds, two of us are writers, and one of us is an accomplished visual artist. Ultimately, FeedBrewer and BookBrewer will be defined not by technology and tools -- which will fade into the background -- but by what people create with those tools.

We're also excited to announce what we call the Charter Author Program (CAP for short). In exchange for helping us test out BookBrewer and letting us publish their eBooks, CAP members will get lots of great benefits -- including a free ISBN number (usually $125 a pop), no setup fees and the full per-sale royalty that we receive from publishers. In exchange, all we ask is that they test things out and tell people about us if they have a good experience. if you have a book in you and are itching to get it out, click the link above and enter your idea into the Charter Author Program.