Editions du Public: Crowdsourcing The Money To Publish Books

Selected by the editors at an independent publisher in Paris from among 80 submissions (so far), 16 manuscripts are posted on the publisher’s website; “co-editors” invest €11 in whichever titles they choose. Once a manuscript has 2,000 co-editors, the publisher then prints copies of the book for sale in bookstores and online; each co-editor receives a free copy and, depending on sales, a return on the original investment of up to €88.