Should Have Been Mine

An article in the Washington Post today caught my eye. It's about a web-based startup called WEBook that lets authors collaborate on a novel and they all make money when it's published. Some of the books will be sold through Amazon's on-demand publishing and some sold directly at Barnes & Noble stores.

For some reason, this sounds really familiar. I don't know why, but it may be similar to an idea I had several months ago. They probably had the idea at that time, but they were smart and got a company going, with investors and everything.

Which leads me to believe that I in fact do have good ideas from time to time. No one batted an eye when I mentioned a community-written book, and now a few folks are living it up in Mountain View with their good idea. The model can last so long as there are serious players writing there. My brother could benefit from something like that.

Now, what to do with my next big product of random thought before someone makes a corporation out of it...