SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
Sept. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: PinkSheets: DEMO) today announced that it
has signed an agreement with Waterfront Press, appointing
Waterfront as a key representative for the licensing of
Democrasoft's WeJIT™ technology into the publishing industry,
throughout the United States. A
WeJIT allows an e-book reader to communicate with the author and
with other readers from within the e-book, expanding a book's
readership and reach, while reading.
The agreement comes in the wake of the recent joint-announcement
by Democrasoft, VOOK, and Waterside Productions, of the world's
first two-way interactive e-book, made possible by WeJIT
technology. 11 Days in May, by JD Messinger and published by
Waterfront Press, includes 32 embedded WeJIT discussions, enabling
the author and readers to interact with each other from inside the
e-book. That announcement quickly led to requests from other
authors around the country to have the same WeJIT capabilities in
their own e-books. Waterside Productions, which has represented
more bestselling authors and more bestselling books than all other
agencies combined, offered to represent Democrasoft throughout the
publishing world on a non-exclusive basis, and will seek to expand
the use of WeJIT capabilities throughout the industry.
William Gladstone, founder and
CEO of Waterfront Press, expressed his excitement at the expanded
functionality and interactivity that the WeJIT can bring to
authors, publishers and readers alike. "There's never before been a
way that readers can actually contribute to the content of a book
through the process of online collaboration," said Gladstone. "The
WeJIT sets up these unique side-conversations between authors and
readers that live and breathe over time."
Waterside Productions has successfully represented more than
5,000 books to over 50 publishers, generating more than
$200 Million for authors including
Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra,
Neal Donald Walsh and many others.
Waterside was also responsible for bringing the highly-successful
series of "...For Dummies" reference books to market.
According to Democrasoft Chairman & CEO Richard Lang "We are thrilled to have Waterside
representing us in the publishing world. They are well-known and
respected in the industry, and we believe they will do a great job
helping us make WeJITs an integrated part of e-books all over the
world."
"The basic WeJIT capabilities are just the tip of the iceberg,"
said Lang. "In the future, we expect to be adding more capabilities
for publishers, authors and individual readers. We believe that the
easy-to-use WeJIT capabilities will breathe new life and longevity
into book publishing and will actually promote new hard-cover and
e-book sales at the same time."
About Waterfront Press and Waterside Productions, Inc.
Waterfront Press is a wholly -owned subsidiary of Waterside
Productions, Inc. a full-service literary agency founded in 1982 in
Cardiff, California. For more
information please visit www.Waterfrontdigitalpress.com or
www.Waterside.com.
About Democrasoft. Democrasoft, Inc. is an innovation and
licensing company with a history of pioneering technology. It is
the creator of the Collaborize platform and Collaborize Classroom
(www.CollaborizeClassroom.com), the award-winning blended-learning
platform for grades K-20. It is also the creator of WeJIT
(http://www.mywejit.com), a new model for self-contained,
topic-based online collaboration that stretches across various
platforms and communities. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating
a vision of online "social networking with purpose." For more
information, please visit www.Democrasoft.com.
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For more information about WeJIT's, or to schedule an interview
with Democrasoft senior management, please contact Mark Kithcart at: mkithcart@democrasoft.com or
call 888-993-8683 x 706.
SOURCE Democrasoft, Inc.