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Classroom Salon is our story.

Classroom Salon is our story. Publishers are worried. …because in a technological future, textbooks are history. Three Major Problems Facing Post Secondary Publishers. Used Book Market… 30-40 % Loss of Potential Revenue --$ 2 Billion. Piracy… that Threatens to Destroy

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Classroom Salon is our story.

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  1. Classroom Salonis our story.

  2. Publishers are worried... …because in a technological future, textbooks are history.

  3. Three Major Problems Facing Post Secondary Publishers Used Book Market… 30-40% Loss of Potential Revenue --$2 Billion Piracy… that Threatens to Destroy the Business Model Difficulty… Driving Online Adoption by Students

  4. We network the textbook. What is our solution?

  5. The Magic Content and interpretation combined Patent pending

  6. Networked book provides analytics to publishers and userslike never before

  7. Networked book discover experts, knowledge assets, form social networks around books

  8. Our business model is simple… We sell Salon seats to publishers Salon seat: a container that packages social learning Salon technology with publisher content *We charge $5 per Salon seat (publisher verified model) *Work with existing marketing and distribution model

  9. Salon has already received $.5 million in funding from National Science Foundation and Gates FoundationSalon has 8000+ invitation only users from 50+ institutions

  10. Pilots with major publishing McGraw-HillNorton

  11. Competition

  12. We are seeking $0.5 million in seed funding Salon Seats 2012 – 100,000 2013 – 300,000 2014 – 700,000

  13. The Team Dr. AnandaGunawardena Founder, Professor, Author, Technologist Dr. David Kaufer Co-founder, former head of English at CMU YitzFrancus Business Development DevDoshi, CMU Lead Tech

  14. Our ExitStrategy?Acquisition

  15. Please visit our table

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