Classroom Salon is our story.

Publishers are worried... …because in a technological future, textbooks are history.

Three Major Problems Facing Post Secondary Publishers Used Book Market… 30-40% Loss of Potential Revenue --$2 Billion Piracy… that Threatens to Destroy the Business Model Difficulty… Driving Online Adoption by Students

We network the textbook. What is our solution?

The Magic Content and interpretation combined Patent pending Content and interpretation combined Patent pending

Networked book provides analytics to publishers and users like never before

Networked book discover experts, knowledge assets, form social networks around books

Our business model is simple… We sell Salon seats to publishers Salon seat: a container that packages social learning Salon technology with publisher content *We charge $5 per Salon seat (publisher verified model) *Work with existing marketing and distribution model

Salon has already received $.5 million in funding from National Science Foundation and Gates Foundation Salon has invitation only users from 50+ institutions

Pilots with major publishing McGraw-Hill Norton

Competition

We are seeking $0.5 million in seed funding Salon Seats 2012 – 100, – 300, – 700,000

The Team Dr. Ananda Gunawardena Founder, Professor, Author, Technologist Dr. David Kaufer Co-founder, former head of English at CMU Dev Doshi, CMU Lead Tech Yitz Francus Business Development

Our Exit Strategy? Acquisition

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