{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/61efc450dc4aa800136f9bc1/6346d13d7583ef001190ee69?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Unbound’s CEO: “publishing hasn’t changed since the Middle Ages” ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/61efc450dc4aa800136f9bc1/1652349028028-afb34cf9ae27d36a7e01c74a642abf67.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Wil Harris is the CEO of Unbound, a digital publisher with ambitions to disrupt an industry he says is almost unchanged in hundreds of years.</p><p><br></p><p>Unbound uses a crowdfunding model to finance the publication of books.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>In this episode we talk about:&nbsp;</strong></p><p><br></p><ul><li>Why Publishing is “ripe for disruption”&nbsp;</li><li>The risks of running a disruptive player against legacy giants&nbsp;</li><li>The benefits of crowd-funding&nbsp;</li><li>How Unbound’s encouraging wider diversity in authors&nbsp;</li><li>How they’re encouraging big name writers to work with them&nbsp;</li><li>The internet was built for niche communities, and how to appeal to them&nbsp;</li><li>His career from starting one of the world’s first YouTube production companies to books&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p>For more news, interviews and analysis got to <a href=\"standard.co.uk/business\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">standard.co.uk/business</a> or pick up the Evening Standard newspaper.&nbsp;</p>","author_name":"Evening Standard"}