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1 Classroom Salon is our story.

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

3 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

4 We network the textbook. What is our solution?

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

6 Networked book provides analytics to publishers and users like never before

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

8 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

9 Salon has already received $.5 million in funding from National Science Foundation and Gates Foundation Salon has 8000+ invitation only users from 50+ institutions

10 Pilots with major publishing McGraw-Hill Norton

11 Competition

12 We are seeking $0.5 million in seed funding Salon Seats 2012 – 100,000 2013 – 300,000 2014 – 700,000

13 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

14 Our Exit Strategy? Acquisition

15 Please visit our table


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