As we are often asked for business details, our team has assembled a Sharing-Books Quick Fact Sheet (as of January 2010).

• Conceived in February 2007 - founded in October 2007 - website Sharing-Books.com launched in September 2008
• Built in Joomla open source platform
• website without flash - designed for low bandwidth regions of the world
• Shared Books Ltd (owner of Sharing-Books.com) is a privately held Canadian company, incorporated in British Columbia with a number of individual and corporate shareholders
• Became promotional partner of Room to Read at start-up
• Revenue sharing 1/3, 1/3, 1/3.  Sharing Books is a for profit social enterprise that shares its revenue equally between the book creators, Room to Read, and operating the company
• Published 250 books in its first year, one of the largest publisher of new children's books in Canada and the world
• Sharing-Books.com is used in libraries and schools around the world from California to Ukraine to Australia
• 25,000 e-books downloaded reaching an estimated 125,000 readers
• Held three book creators contests in 2009
• A current project includes transforming our e-books into video-books for distribution on content selling sites.
• Publishing partner of Bookshare.org, the world largest online library for the visually challenged
• Sharing-Books acquires classic children books that are over 100 years old, scans them and republishes them as e-books
• E-books save trees - not printing 250 books saves one paper tree.
• Sharing-Books is an active participant in the annual E-Book Week (March)
• Sharing-Books has been recommended by a number of parenting and technology sites and blogs
• Sharing-Books operates a virtual office with participants from several cities in British Columbia and Alberta.
• Sharing-Books creators come from North America, Europe, India, Asia and Australia.
• We use a unique licensing agreement that lets the creators retain the copyrights to their work.  The license grant Sharing-Books the rights to further develop the intellectual property of the books.
• Sharing-Books has a speed publishing process that can approve and publish a book in 48 hours.
• Sharing-Books' content is vetted by a team of volunteer librarians.
• The publishing process enables book creators to update their books with new versions.
• The PDF version of the books is available to anyone for free, and the video versions of the books will be sold for a micro-payment.