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Startup No 177 - StartupRealities 2020 series StencilBooks is a publisher which uses one-page-size chapters in all books it publishes. The company will publish a book only if the author complies with the 1-page rule: every chapter must be a stand-alone story and must be contained within a single page. CEO QUOTE "We bring discipline to the post-linear world. Wikipedia articles are non-linear while traditional books are linear. But why should novels be linear? Why can't a reader open a book at any random page and read a story and understand everything, without prerequisites? This is what we are changing in the world of publishing with our 1-page rule. If poems can show discipline by following a rhythm and a set of rhymes, so can novels and even non-fiction books be disciplined by following a strict format." said StencilBooks founder and CEO Stella Boocker . Book (the Guthenberg Bible) (image source: Wikipedia )

StartupRealities No 167 ClubCelebr is an event organiser which brings together B-list celebrity authors and speakers such as Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin and puts on various activities that pool their followers and ideas. The joint activities include: A) Publishing books with different chapters contributed by different ClubCelebr authors. B) Delivering MBA programs, with each celebrity guest-teaching in several classes. C) Participating in TV talk shows with several members contributing commentary in every episode. CEO QUOTE " ClubCelebr is forming K-pop groups of intellectuals who are already famous, but not super famous like the Kardashians or Lady Gaga or the Queen. We are trying to create new Bloomsbury Sets and new Schools of Athens . The rule of thumb is that if your computer spellcheck underlines the name of the celebrity or if your voice recognition dictation does not transcribe the name correctly, they haven’t made it to the stratospheric celebrity level yet and c...