Magicblox.com Announces Next Generation Kids Book Marketing and Distribution Platform

BURLINGAME, Calif., June 24, 2011 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Magicblox.com is a new membership based digital kids book library where any author, illustrator or publisher can easily create interactive eBooks for FREE while benefiting from viral network marketing, instant global distribution and earning royalties whenever children, parents and teachers read their books.  Each month, Magicblox takes all the revenue from membership access passes and splits it 50% into an author pool.  The author pool is then distributed back to each book based on the percentage of reads it generated for that month.

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Once approved as a Magicblox author, Kids book creators and publishers can easily upload their books for FREE using a simple web form, which is not much different than uploading a video to YouTube.  Magicblox accepts PDF's or JPG images and MP3 files for each page that get magically converted into an interactive eBook with audio narrations, page flipping and more.  At this point, the Magicblox team reviews each book and approves it to go live.  Once the book is live on the library shelves, it can be accessed by readers from a web browser, the iPad, iPhone, any Android device, or Google TV with the ability to extend the use of the library through a their partner development API's.  Magicblox also parents to Buy a Book if they still want a pysical copy of their book, effectively turning the library into an additional marketing channel to reach a new generation of readers.

Jason Lane, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and long time technologist, started creating the Magicblox library in August 2010 with the vision of building an extensive eBook library specifically for kids, where parents like himself could get unlimited access to thousands of interactive eBooks for a price more affordable, portable and environment friendly than traditional paper books.  During the first 10 months, Magicblox has continuously added authors, publishers, books and subscribers and continues to see increased growth and usage.

"In addition to the issues I had with buying and accessing physical kids books for my son, I also saw the pain that independent authors go through when creating, marketing and distributing their books.  Most publishers only have enough time and resources to work with a small subset of all the books that get created every year even though most of the rejections I've seen have been fabulous books.  It's time for the world to see all of the books that are created and not just the ones publishers have time for," said Jason Lane, the Founder and CEO of Magicblox.com.

For further information about this topic or to schedule an interview, please contact Jason Lane at 650-452-4852 or email at [email protected]

Media Contact: Jason Lane Magicblox LLC, 650-452-4852, [email protected]

SOURCE Magicblox LLC