Peter Hudson

I've used an early version of this with my mobile app Shelfie and it gave us a huge improvement in image loading speed.

I'm a big fan of Neal Stephenson's books... There was something in Peter Thiel's books about all the PayPal mafia loving his book Cryptonomicon.

For anybody overseas, the apps are currently only available in the "anglosphere" (US, CA, UK, IE, ZA, AU, and NZ)... the reason for this is that when we sign with publishers they generally have digital rights on their ebooks in linguistic blocks of countries. Publishers typically sell foreign language rights in both print, digital, and audio to other publishers in different language markets....

For everybody who's about to reach for their copy of Harry Potter, Hunger Games, or Games of Thrones... we have to sign deals with each publisher to get their books on the platform. We have about 100k titles signed so far from about 400 publishers. That works out to about 15% of the books identified in an "average" Shelfie (your mileage may vary). We only have 2 out of the "Big Five Publishers"...