SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
Aug. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: Pinksheets: DEMO) and VOOK
ePublishing in San Francisco,
today announced the arrival of the world's first two-way
interactive e-book, which features a new technology that allows
real-time author and reader-to-reader dialog and collaboration from
inside an e-book.
The newly-released book grabbing all the attention, 11 Days
in May, published by Waterfront Press, will offer readers the
opportunity to communicate directly with both author JD Messinger,
and also with other readers, from right inside the e-book. This
groundbreaking discussion capability is made possible by a new
cloud-based collaboration technology developed by Democrasoft,
which links any reader with a book's author, other readers or any
other person with access to the Internet. The new technology is
called "WeJIT," and it promises to forever change the way authors,
their books and their readers come together.
According to Democrasoft Chairman & CEO Richard Lang, WeJIT is a new approach to
collaboration that allows instant communities to form around any
topic of common interest. With a few clicks, an individual WeJIT is
formed by any individual wanting to enable an instant,
collaborative community. In essence, the WeJIT is a one-page
website, with a unique URL, dedicated to a particular topic of
discussion, debate or even decision-making, in a multitude of
engagement models. It can be formed in a matter of seconds, free of
charge for individual use (www.MyWeJIT.com). In the case of 11
Days in May, author JD Messinger has created and embedded 32
WeJITs inside his new e-book, on an assortment of topics covered in
the book.
"This is an amazing way for me to communicate with my readers,
while they're actually reading the book," said Messinger. "It
creates the opportunity for readers to have vibrant dialog and
exchanges on the multiple ideas contained inside the book. In a
way, it creates an instant book club around any subject that
readers care to participate in and to involve others in."
William Gladstone, founder and
CEO of Waterfront Press, the publisher of both the e-book
and printed editions of 11 Days in May, also
points out that readers of the new e-book can actually forward the
URL for any embedded WeJIT to anyone, even those who don't have the
book and may have never heard of it.
"What's amazing is that readers are actually poised to increase
book sales by inviting others to join in specific discussions
launched from within the e-book," said Gladstone. "That's a first
in the publishing world and when you combine it with the other
interactive features offered on the VOOK epublishing platform, we
think you're looking at a watershed event for authors and
publishers around the world."
Matthew Cavnar, VP of Business
Development at Vook, said that the Vook ePublishing platform
combined with the WeJit capabilities perfectly compliment the
interactive features already embedded within 11 Days in May.
These other features include images and videos; specially composed
music; Messinger's CNN radio interviews with famous guests, and
original artwork.
"The combination of VOOK's publishing platform and Democrasoft's
WeJIT capabilities is something that we believe is going to
completely redefine e-book publishing," said Cavnar. "We are very
excited about the possibilities going forward and believe that this
combination is about to take what was already a terrific e-book and
turn it into a real game-changer."
Lang says that the inclusion of WeJIT capability in e-books,
beginning with 11 Days in May, is evidence of one of the
core advantages that WeJITs bring to online collaboration:
"portability." He points to the fact that every
self-contained WeJIT discussion or collaboration is associated with
a unique URL (web address), which can then be shared with anyone,
using existing social networking platforms such as Facebook,
LinkedIn, and Twitter, to name a few. He said that in future
e-books, readers themselves would be able to instantly create and
share WeJITs around any topic they are reading about in an
e-book.
"WeJIT is not a competing social network," said Lang. "Instead,
WeJIT is a way to enable an instant community to form around any
individual topic, comprised only of people with an interest in that
particular topic. There's no need to join, manage or moderate yet
another platform. WeJIT is to collaboration what Google is to
search."
Lang said that anyone wanting to create their own WeJIT to
instantly engage any group, large or small, on any topic, can do so
by visiting: www.MyWeJIT.com and creating a WeJIT for free.
According to Lang, the WeJIT platform is available to larger groups
and organization under a variety of licensing arrangements,
including white-label.
11 Days in May is available for hardcover pre-release at
www.Amazon.com and www.BarnesAndNoble.com. The e-book is
available now from Vook at
http://vook.com/storefronts/book/11-days-in-may.html.
About JD Messinger. JD Messinger is the former CEO of
Ernst & Young Consulting (Singapore), one of 37 distinguished graduates
from Annapolis (1981), a former
fireman, nuclear submarine officer, and former radio and television
show creator, producer and host. In the world of business, JD
helped supervise the Valdez Oil spill cleanup and is an advisor to
Fortune 100 clients and governments on five continents. He lives in
Texas with his wife and their
three children. For more information please visit
www.JDMessinger.com.
About Waterfront Press and Waterside Productions, Inc.
Waterfront Press is a wholly -owned subsidiary of Waterside
Productions, Inc. a full-service literary agency founded in 1982 in
Cardiff, California. As the
world's premier literary agency for computer and technology
authors, Waterside Productions' agents have successfully
represented more than 5,000 books to over 50 publishers, generating
more than $200 Million for authors.
Waterfront has worked with some of the top authors in the world
including Eckhart Tolle, Deepak
Chopra, and Neale Donald
Walsh. For more information please visit
www.Waterfrontdigitalpress.com or www.Waterside.com.
About Vook. Founded in 2009, Vook has created an
innovative technology platform that allows anyone to create great
e-Books, add video, audio and images, publish the e-Books to their
own Webpage and to the major e-Tailers and track their sales. Vook
works with a range of content partners including NBC, Simon &
Schuster, Franklin Covey and Hay
House and most major distribution channels including Apple, Amazon,
Google and Barnes & Noble. For more information, please visit
www.Vook.com.
About Democrasoft. Democrasoft, Inc. is an innovation and
licensing company with a history of pioneering technology. It is
the creator of the Collaborize platform and Collaborize Classroom
(www.CollaborizeClassroom.com), the award-winning blended-learning
platform for grades K-20. It is also the creator of WeJIT
(http://www.mywejit.com), a new model for self-contained,
topic-based online collaboration that stretches across various
platforms and communities. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating
a vision of online "social networking with purpose." For more
information, please visit www.Democrasoft.com.
For inquiries or more information, please contact
Imal Wagner at
ImalWagner@gmail.com.
For more information about WeJIT's, or to schedule an
interview with Democrasoft senior management, please contact
Mark Kithcart
at: mkithcart@collaborizeclassroom.comor
call 888-993-8683 x 706.
SOURCE Democrasoft, Inc.