2. The Origin of BookSelf
Do you ever have days
when you want to read a
new book, but you’ve read
all the books in your
house? Stop looking at One of the very first logo designs.
your bookshelves, look to
BookSelf!
3. What is BookSelf?
BookSelf is a mobile app that helps
users find a new favorite book.
The app functions as the user
answers questions about their
mood, age, and gender. Based on
their responses, the app
recommends a personalized book
selection.
4. Who Needs BookSelf?
BookSelf is great for people who enjoy
reading, especially on eReaders. Often
people finish a great book and need a
recommendation for a new book. This
app will solve that problem.
5. Benefits Of Bookself
• The only book finder that utilizes a
quiz to prescribe a book type.
• BookSelf would be the only
personalized book recommendation
app on the Android platform.
6. Competition
• Our competitors (YALSA’s Teen Book
Finder and Kids’ Book Finder) have
smaller, more specific age groups.
• Our app is made for the Android while
our competitors’ app works just on
Apple devices.
• BookSelf will eventually allow the user
to purchase books from a partnered
source.
7. Screen Displays
The background for each question has
a bookshelf with books that pertain to
the question.
For example, for the age question,
there are books such as The Golden
Age, The Age of Miracles, and Old
Yeller.
8. Reasons To Invest
Our application will be a great investment because:
It is unique and solves an identifiable problem quickly.
Revenue from electronic books exceeds paper back medium.
Partnering with book sources will generate additional
revenue streams.
Upon completion of the lite version, we will offer a full
version that will return multiple book selections and contain
a more comprehensive mood assessment.
9. Cost
We will incur the following expenses to complete this app:
Cost to hire a developer: $2,500 - $5,000.
Google checkout merchant (revenue stream from new/updated versions) as
new versions will be considered updates.
We will utilize students from our school for the graphic
design and our FBLA club will recruit student employees.
We will implement shoe string marketing focusing on app
review blogs, Facebook, and twitter. Enlisting the help of
our friends and families we will encourage downloads and
ratings.
10. Revenue Stream
The lite version of the App will be free of charge.
The extended version of the APP will cost $1.99 and offer the user more
robust mood questions and will return several book recommendations.
Partnerships with electronic book retailers will provide recurring
revenue as users purchase books.
