DEMO Democrasoft Holdings Inc (CE)

Technology paired with true story wins Digital Book
World award

 

NEW YORK, January 16, 2013—  Democrasoft,
Inc. (OTC: PinkSheets: DEMO), VOOK and first-time author Jonathan D. Messinger
today jointly announced that Messinger’s e-book 11 Days in May is
the recipient of this year’s Digital Book World Publishing Innovation Award
in the category of best non-fiction ebook. The announcement was made today at
the Digital Book World Conference + Expo at the Hilton Hotel in New York City.
According to the Digital Book World website, the award honors “the most
innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks, and book apps in 14 categories. It is the
mission of the PIAs to highlight excellent publishers/authors, encourage new
thinking, and improve the reading experience in the digital age.”

Messinger’s ebook
11 Days in May: The Conversation
That Will Change Your Life,
published by Waterfront Digital Press and created by Vook, uses Democrasoft’s
unique new WeJIT technology to allow readers to communicate directly with the
author and with each other, from topic-based discussions within the ebook.
These discussions are made possible with author-embedded links in the ebook
that connect readers and authors in an embedded online discussion space where
they can engage with each other in various types of structured discussions.  

The award-winning book was written over the course of eleven days in May
2012, hence the title 11 Days in May. When envisioning the ebook, “I was inspired
to create a total immersion experience,” says Messinger. “What that meant I
wasn’t exactly sure, I just knew that I needed to somehow make 11 Days in May not just an engaging book, but an interactive story.”

Messinger’s
inspiration led him to a collaboration with Democrasoft and its brand new WeJIT
collaboration tool, assembled by VOOK. Now, through the enhanced version of his
ebook, readers can respond to Messinger when he asks questions like “who am I?”
“why am I here?”and “where did I come from?” Thirty-two embedded WeJITs link
readers to a collection of one-page online WeJITs, each dedicated to a
particular topic or debate.
William Gladstone, founder and CEO of Waterfront Digital Press, notes that
readers of the ebook can forward the URL link for any embedded WeJIT to anyone,
through social networks like Facebook or Twitter, even to those who don’t yet
have the book and might not have heard of it.

“What’s amazing
is that readers are actually poised to increase book sales by inviting others
to join in specific discussions launched from within the ebook” said Gladstone.
“That’s a first in the publishing world and when you combine it with the other
interactive features offered on the Vook e-publishing platform, we think you’re
looking at a watershed event for authors and publishers around the world.”

“The combination
of Vook’s publishing platform and Democrasoft’s WeJIT capabilities has
redefined publishing, turning a terrific book into a real game-changer,” says
Matthew Cavnar, Vook’s VP of Business Development.

According to
Richard Lang, CEO of Democrasoft, “The opportunity that WeJITs represent for
the publishing industry is to recognize that WeJITs can become a portal to new
‘real estate’ within an ebook, where publishers can participate in the benefits
of multi-way collaborative discussions within their publications.”

11 Days in May is available
from Vook at http://vook.com/storefronts/book/11-days-in-may.html as well as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and
Apple’s iBookstore.

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.

 

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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.

About JD
Messinger

Former CEO of
Ernst & Young Consulting, Singapore, Messinger is one of 37 Distinguished
Graduates from the United States Naval Academy. 
A former nuclear submarine officer and the Exxon executive who helped
supervise the Valdez Oil spill cleanup, Messinger was nominated as CNBC Asian
CEO of the year, was the Channel News Asia “IT Person of the Week” and a senior
advisor to the Singapore Prime Minister, members of parliament in Great
Britain, China, Brunei, Australia and Malaysia on corporate, national and
industrial evolution, innovation and energy. 
A television and radio show creator, his position papers have been
distributed to three U.S. Presidential candidates and dignitaries around the
world.  For more information please visit
www.JDMessinger.com.

About
Waterfront Digital 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. As the
world’s premier literary agency for computer and technology authors, Waterside
Productions’ agents have successfully represented more than 5,000 books to over
50 publishers, generating more than $200 Million for authors. Waterfront has
worked with some of the top authors in the world including Eckhart Tolle,
Deepak Chopra, and Neale Donald Walsh. For more information please visit www.Waterfrontdigitalpress.com or www.Waterside.com.

About Vook

Founded in 2009, Vook has created an innovative
technology platform that allows content holders to create great ebooks, add
video, audio and images, publish the ebooks to their own Web pages and to the
major e-retailers, and track their sales. Vook provides a turnkey solution for
content strategy, including editorial, marketing and distribution services and
has worked with a range of partners, including The New York Times, NBC, Simon
& Schuster, Google, American Express Publishing, and Newsweek Daily Beast.
For more information, please visit http://vook.com or contact Allison@vook.com.

 

 

 

                                                                                          

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