Inspired by both a past life in digitization, and my constant desire to finally get my CD and book collection available on my new devices :
Stashed somewhere in your house, chances are you’ll find books you’ve cherised your life, CDs you’ve collected painstakingly and magazines you never want to dispose off.
What if you were offered a service that would digitize your content and have it available to you ?
1) Place an order on the site – stipulate the type, size and condition. Scan an image of the bar code to check if a online version already exists.
2) A courier service picks up your content, packages it and delivers it to the company – you can track the process
3) Company undertakes your order by getting the digitization done at a BPO in smaller towns of India. And offers to store this content if you desire.
4) You get a notification when the process is complete.
5) Mention the devices you want to access this digital content from
6) You get charged on a monthly basis
7) The site has ancillary suggestion services to help match you with new content and / or people who own the same content you have
Would you avail of such a service ?
What would you be willing to pay per month?
Is storage important?
Mahesh Khambadkone
I’ve come across people who do some of the latter items you mention – publishers and corporates / govt offices needing digital conversion, with a resultant content management system.
I feel there’s a demand for a B2C solution, but am trying to figure out prices that would work. Been thinking about this for a while, thought I’d DO something about it after reading about 1DollarScan on TechCrunch yesterday, and put up this post.
I’m even wondering if a user who has a webcam and has a few books / doesn’t want to incur additional costs, could flip their book in front of the camera, and that digital version gets sent to us for copy-checking / OCR enhancements!