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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.  Read more »