Wil Harris is the CEO of Unbound, a digital publisher with ambitions to disrupt an industry he says is almost unchanged in hundreds of years.Unbound uses a crowdfunding model to finance the publication of books.In this episode we talk about: Why Publishing is “ripe for disruption” The risks of running a disruptive player against legacy giants The benefits of crowd-funding How Unbound’s encouraging wider diversity in authors How they’re encouraging big name writers to work with them The internet was built for niche communities, and how to appeal to them His career from starting one of the world’s first YouTube production companies to books For more news, interviews and analysis got to standard.co.uk/business or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper.  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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