While hiking with my natural mother over Father's Day in 2009, she was talking about writing a nutrition book for the masses. Her book encouraged experimenting and re-teaching your taste buds to detect chemicals and find the natural food that is best for you. She had written a few chapters in her spare time, but didn't have the time or energy to complete the book. She was also running into road blocks with finding a publisher that didn't want her to invest money for publishing her book.
So while we were hiking and discussing her book, I was considering options for how to get that important book published and had an idea. A properly marketed website called Book Futures would allow independent investors to review book or movie ideas and invest in them directly. This could provide seed capital and allow the author/screenwriter an advance to concentrate on completing his/her vision. Investors would certainly provide enough oversight to ensure their investment was well tended and depending on risk, would share in a substantial portion of the profits.
Eventually this idea could be used for business investment capital without requiring any oversight or regulatory control. Interested parties are always watching. Small niches can be filled without going through a hierarchical system that requires the review of a finite number of editors who do not have the time to devote to certain ideas that might otherwise be marketable.
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