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Marketing | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. An overview of the Paperight journey. This article by Arthur Attwell was originally published in. Published by the Goethe Institute. Everyone knows that books are critical to development and education. Everyone knows that bookshops and libraries are vanishingly rare in Africa. Everyone knows that most families have fewer than ten books at home. So why do we still have this problem? A few years ago, the Centre for the Book in South Africa distributed free children’s books to 70...
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book dash | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Tag Archives: book dash. Paperight and beyond: learning from disappointment. At a Mobile Literacy Network Meeting this week hosted by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. I talked about Paperight, why we had to close, and some of the lessons my team and I are taking to our next ventures particularly Bettercare. But first, a quick note on learning lessons from disappointment. Hindsight is cruel, because it’s almost certainly wrong. So, let’s see what happened to Paperight. We work...
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bettercare | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Paperight and beyond: learning from disappointment. At a Mobile Literacy Network Meeting this week hosted by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. I talked about Paperight, why we had to close, and some of the lessons my team and I are taking to our next ventures particularly Bettercare. In the next ten minutes I’m going to talk about three things: what was Paperight, why we had to close, and a few lessons (out of a great many) that I’m taking into my next ventures. In every villa...
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Contributors | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Arthur is Paperight’s founder and CEO. He oversees Paperight’s overall strategy and its implementation from day to day. He’s also our CTO, working closely with the development team at Realm Digital. (Visit his personal blog at arthurattwell.com. Tarryn-Anne Anderson is our chief operating officer. She heads up our work with publishers, and manages our content systems. Oscar Masinyana was our reading-communities manager and content curator till April 2014. He managed our co...
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New experiments shipped | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. From September to November we’ve put together a number of new experiments in product mix and marketing. 6 Sep 2012: New children’s and young-adult fiction from Cover2Cover ( blog post. Big Bug Books ( blog post. Oct 2012: Prototype consumer-focused mobile-optimised site. Nov 2012: Random House Struik (SA’s biggest general-interest publisher) signed and delivered a dozen books, which are currently being prepped for upload to paperight.com. We also got out of the office a bit:.
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Content | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Paperight and beyond: learning from disappointment. At a Mobile Literacy Network Meeting this week hosted by the Goethe-Institut Johannesburg. I talked about Paperight, why we had to close, and some of the lessons my team and I are taking to our next ventures particularly Bettercare. In the next ten minutes I’m going to talk about three things: what was Paperight, why we had to close, and a few lessons (out of a great many) that I’m taking into my next ventures. In every villa...
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Marie-Louise starts at Paperight | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Marie-Louise starts at Paperight. The interviewing process was nerve-racking only because I’d already made up my mind that I wanted to be on this team. Nick and Yazeed made my first interview incredibly welcoming, but sitting in the meeting room in front of 7 people and trying to be the best ‘me’ possible (while balancing precariously on an exercise ball) made me very anxious. But in the end, I got the job! From Yazeed’s side, I assisted with the on-boarding process of new out...
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Thirty months of Paperight metrics | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Thirty months of Paperight metrics. Here’s a series of graphs about Paperight’s journey. They cover two and a half years, by month. We’ve picked our starting date for these as September 2011, when our investment and funding from the Shuttleworth Foundation kicked in. I’d already been working on my own, part-time, on the model and prototype tech for almost three years before that. We’re including:. Our high-level projects and decisions. Our team members and size. If you use the...
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Uncategorized – The Paperight Blog
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Updates from the Paperight team. Author of the Week. The #textbookrevolution hits UCT! As the third week of Paperight’s #textbookrevolution draws to a close, we have a lot to be proud of, and a lot of people to thank. All in all, we managed to gather over 400 signatures from Stellenbosch University students and over 600 signatures from students from the University of Cape Town that’s over 1000 students who love what Paperight is doing for them. It’s helped us to hear that students agree with the #textboo...
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Growing the team and its home | The Paperight Story
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Finance, grants and awards. Growing the team and its home. So I’ve been growing our team in numbers and, I hope, quality, for nine months now. The content team has also been keeping our blog. Busy Nick’s author-of-the-week posts are particularly enjoyable. We have a growing mailing list, and Twitter. Followings. These will be increasingly important over time. A major highlight of the last two months for me has been hiring our outlet team. We have workflows around various online tools for bug tracking, ac...
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