What if you were to make a "Start Chinese web" in the United States?

Absrtact: When you talk about the American pay-reading market you must be the Kindle and the ibooks, when you talk about China's pay-reading market often think of QQ reading and the beginning of Chinese web. Orange Raw and Huaibei is orange, the birth of Huainan is an orange, this is the entrepreneur often say a new topic

When you talk about the American pay-reading market you must be the Kindle and the ibooks, when you talk about China's pay-reading market often think of QQ reading and the beginning of the Chinese web. Orange-born Huaibei is orange, the birth of Huainan is an orange, this is the entrepreneur often say a new topic. Now at home, see Amazon's dream to do very difficult, if in the United States to do a "beginning Chinese network"?

Youshelf, who unveiled today at the 36 Krypton Open day Silicon Valley station, is one such project that they want to replicate in the United States the mature online novel serial mode, based on thousand-word charges. They are not entirely pioneers, of course, and there are already similar companies in North America, such as Wattpad, which is completely free to read, with a total of 67 million dollars in investment.

However, Youshelf has its own characteristics, users can get seamless reading & listening on their platform, as well as the mobile end of the &PC switch experience, effective use of driving, sports and home and other scenes of debris time. There are also social elements added.

Youshelf's entrepreneurial team is very lean, currently less than 10 people, the majority of Chinese faces. Founder Huang is the original Google Senior Product manager, Google China map of the person in charge. He told 36 Krypton that Youshelf was the hope:

Draw on the Asian model, which is already ahead of the West, and use the understanding of North American users ' reading habits and preferences to share a slice of the 20 billion-dollar reading market.

Youshelf is still a relatively early project, hoping to get a 501 million dollar Seed fund, some of which will be used to invite more than 300 writers to the platform over the next 3 months. By the end of 2016, Youshelf would not participate in the income-sharing exercise, and would then charge a 10% to 20% share of the proceeds. In addition, Youshelf hopes to obtain more sources of content through the university's Literature department, the Writers ' Association and the Small publishing group.