Startup Weekend Louisville, KY Oct 2016. Book Club allows you to share and trade books for free.

1. “Books are dead.”
FALSE

2. U.S. Millennials
buy 30% of
ALL purchased
books.
Baby Boomers
account for 26%2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics &
Buying Behaviors

3. Millennials are
saving money.
They are not
attracted to
ownershipMarch 2016 Bankrate, Millennials Saving More

4. From 23 face to
face interviews
People have unused
books.
They want to maximize
the value of those
books.

5. Book Club
connects
book lovers
to books.

6. Book
Club

7. Book
Club

8. Book
Club

9. Book
Club

10. $0.64 to $1.32
per book

11. Louisville buys 689,679 printed
books a year from Amazon.
AAP. Unit sales of the U.S. book market from 2010 to 2015 (in billions). Statista. Accessed 16 October, 2016.
PEW. A Snapshot of Reading in America in 2013. Pewinternet. Accessed 16 October, 2016
Louisville.gov Economic Indicators and Demographics Sept 2014, Accessed 16 October, 2016

16. A FREE
platform with a
focus on
community.
Save on books.
Make new friends.

17. The Team
Passionate about creating and developing a
simple way to connect books to book lovers.
Sheldon Burks
Software Engineer
Phoenix Turner
Marketing
William Widtery
Entrepreneur Robert
Designer/Developer
Jake Steele
Developer