Anna Lewis Wants to Change the Publishing World with VolaBox and CompletelyNovel
Anna Lewis left her government job as a policy advisor in 2008 to pursue her personal interest in entering the publishing world. However, this cool person in technology didn’t take the traditional path and apply for jobs at major book publishers or even small presses. Instead, she used technology to tackle book publishing from a different angle and launched CompletelyNovel, her first tech startup. CompletelyNovel provided authors a platform for communication, advice, and self-publishing—all via the web. Lewis worked on CompletelyNovel with her business partner Oliver Brooks for several years, expanding the site’s features and user base before deciding that what they were doing wasn’t enough. Lewis apparently wasn’t satisfied with just changing how people publish books with the web, but also how people purchase and read eBooks online. That’s why she founded ValoBox in 2011, a company that allows users to pay for cloud-based eBooks by chapter or even by page if they so desire. Those who have ever needed a computer data recovery to retrieve lost eBooks on their hard drive will see the possible benefits of the ValoBox service. Both of Lewis’s startups leverage the Internet to provide new models for the book industry on both the publishing and consumer sides.
CompletelyNovel provides budding authors with both a place to converse and advice each other as well as a platform for releasing and promoting their books. Lewis’s publishing startup offers printing services to individual self-published authors so they can easily create print versions of their work. This is useful even for authors that mostly release eBooks as print versions of the book can often become powerful promotional and marketing tools. CompletelyNovel also offers many helpful web resources and advice to self-publishing authors who are marketing their book online.
Lewis’s second startup, ValoBox, allows users to purchase books and view them through any web browser on any device. This eliminates the common issue with eBooks of different proprietary platforms. Any Internet-connected device from any manufacturer will display books purchased on ValoBox. An arguably even more distinctive feature from other eBook resellers is that Lewis’s startup lets users purchase books by the page or by chapter. This sort of micro-purchase model is potentially useful for items like textbooks or reference books, where the user only needs a certain piece of the total work. If you ever have trouble accessing ValoBox books online, get remote tech support to help you resolve the problem.
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