The founders, who launched the crowdfunding literary website at the Hay festival, say that it “democratises the book commissioning process by enabling authors and readers to make the decisions about what does or doesn’t get published”. Jones, who said the initiative was “brilliant... just what publishing needs”, is contributing one of the first titles on the site, a Roald Dahl-esque story of vengeful phones and hoovers called Evil Machines. This Life writer and chick-lit novelist Amy Jenkins is pitching “a more reflective book about relationships”, The Art of Losing, and a collection of short stories from Fischer, entitled Crushed Mexican Spiders, is also among the site’s first titles.
Pretor-Pinney is pitching an iPad app that would take users inside clouds, while The Horse Boy author Rupert Isaacson and cultural historian and film-maker Jonathan Meades will also be proposing books to potential readers.
Pitching a project on Unbound is free for authors, with the founders planning to make money through a 50/50 profit share on successful titles. If a book fails to raise enough money to be published, then supporters will either be able to use their investment for another title, or have the cash returned to them.
“We can make a book viable by selling 2,500 to 3,000 copies. Books like that are not hugely appealing to big publishing houses, but there are targeted audiences who could be very well served by them. There could be 10,000 people who like Norwegian steam-train systems from the 1930s – if we can put them together with an author, then it’s worth everybody’s while to do it,” said Pollard.
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