Three years ago today

This came up under my "3 years ago today" thingie on Facebook.  

Results of an afternoon's bigthink about PageKicker.

1) All books are built on the fly by robots endowed with crude anthropomorphic personalities.

2) Books are defined by catalog entries that express intention rather than as final fixed expression.

3) Catalog entries can be created by humans using web form or programmatically by analysis of documents, web pages, selected text, social media streams, news feeds, metadata catalogs, or structured and unstructured data sets.

4) Catalog entry attributes include keywords, unstructured content, search strategies, style, preferences, and design.

5) All book builds include latest permissioned content.

6) All book builds use the latest software. New features are readily added to the production pipeline.

7) All book builds benefit from latest machine learning against an ever-growing corpus.

8) All books follow the Chicago Manual of Style and have customized and unique covers, front matter, body, and back matter with high-quality presentation. They pass the duck test: they look like a book and quack like a book.

9) Building a PageKicker book costs only pennies so prices are low.

10) Books can be added to the catalog via script or spreadsheet thousands at a time.

11) PageKicker will rapidly scale to millions of catalog entries and will offer a subscription nonfiction service that provides a compelling alternative to Kindle Unlimited, Oyster, and others.

12) Multiple taxonomies are supported including BISAC and Thema.

13) Multiple languages are supported including English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish, and Swedish.

14) The PageKicker catalog includes at least one book for every node in the BISAC nonfiction hierarchy.

15) On signup the consumer customer creates a personal authoring robot whose behavior reflects his preferences.

16) The robot then creates a shelf of living books that are responsive to the customer's interests and jointly editable with his personal community.

17) Enterprise customers can set up private label stores using their own permissioned content and admin backend to serve their own users.

18) PageKicker delivers broad and deep content into "containers" where PageKicker is the reader's partner in immersive learning. This is an alternative or complementary approach to click-driven web browsing.

19) The size of the financial opportunity is a share of the market for immersive learning, which includes the multi-multi-billion-dollar professional publishing, trade nonfiction, and web "long read" markets.

20) Revenue streams include B2C transactional and subscription as well as B2B subscription and sponsorship models.