{"id":19536,"date":"2013-09-24T10:29:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T08:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/?p=19536"},"modified":"2019-05-02T11:34:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T09:34:34","slug":"youboox-raises-e1-1-million-led-by-atlas-editions-to-become-the-spotify-of-ebooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/2013\/09\/youboox-raises-e1-1-million-led-by-atlas-editions-to-become-the-spotify-of-ebooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Youboox raises \u20ac1.1 Million led by Atlas Editions to become the Spotify of eBooks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19537\" alt=\"accueil_ipad_youboox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/assets\/accueil_ipad_youboox-e1380011263625.png\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On the back of <a title=\"Media for Equity fund 5MVentures launches with investments in YouBoox &amp; JobAroundMe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/2013\/07\/03\/5mventures\/\">raising funds via media-for-equity fund 5M Ventures<\/a> earlier this year,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youboox.fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Youboox<\/a>\u00a0have raised \u20ac1.1 Million from Atlas Editions, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/frenchweb.fr\/youboox-leve-11-million-deuros-aupres-des-editions-atlas\/127050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Frenchweb<\/a>. Founded by Vincent Daubry, Helen Merillion &amp;\u00a0Fabien Sauleman, Youboox&#8217;s goal has been to provide an alternative way for casual book-readers to consume eBooks, namely through a freemium model similar to Spotify. The startup has already released an iPad and Windows 8 App, and has begun signing on independent publishers in France.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Youboox raises \u20ac1.1 Million led by Atlas Editions to become the Spotify of eBooks <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/qwyY7wnFB0\">http:\/\/t.co\/qwyY7wnFB0<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LiamBoogar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@LiamBoogar<\/a> h\/t <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/frenchweb?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Frenchweb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Rude Baguette (@RudeBaguette) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RudeBaguette\/status\/382421611158446081?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 24, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Of course, the key wall in the publisher market will come from the major players, similar to the music industry. Convincing book publishers, who have already seen margins disappear through the price-dropping numbers in the Amazon &amp; Apple eBook stores, will be no easy task; Youboox will likely need to demonstrate that they can convert otherwise unread stock into revenue from users who wouldn&#8217;t otherwise buy the book. electronic or physical.<\/p>\n<p>With the funding Youboox raised earlier this year, it will likely get a big boost in user signups, if it has not already seen the fruits of its media-for-equity funding. With this round of funding from Atlas Editions, Youboox will gain access to bigger publishers through Atlas&#8217; networks, and will have sufficient runway to hire the engineers needed to build a multi-platform, easy reading experience for its readers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the back of raising funds via media-for-equity fund 5M Ventures earlier this year,\u00a0Youboox\u00a0have raised \u20ac1.1 Million from Atlas Editions, according to Frenchweb. Founded by Vincent Daubry, Helen Merillion &amp;\u00a0Fabien Sauleman, Youboox&#8217;s goal has been to provide an alternative way for casual book-readers to consume eBooks, namely through a freemium model similar to Spotify. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":19537,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[8555],"class_list":["post-19536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-finance","tag-ebook-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudebaguette.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}