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SharedBook is a technology company that has created an on demand, reverse publishing platform that allows users to extract data and content from multiple sources, manipulate it, then distribute their unique new creation online or off.

In the 1990's, Web content was created offline, and repurposed for online consumption. Web 2.0 has produced billions of pieces of content - text, data and photos as well as audio and video - that are published first to the web. But there is little ability to extract this content, much of it holding great value to consumers, to a physical offline product. Reverse publishing inverts the process, taking what was online and recreating it, in a more permanent form - a book.

SharedBook offers individual users and website owners a way to collect, build upon and publish their photos, stories and data (collectively referred to as 'content') from multiple sources into a structured book product that can be virally relayed or professionally printed into a physical book. It provides users with a way to extract content on the web and to combine it with other content sources in a completely personalized way.

For companies and Brands, SharedBook creates a unique marketing product that integrates the Brand proposition and assets with consumer's own content to create a new revenue generating opportunity. The company has seamlessly integrated with Xerox's high end, digital printers to provide a completely customizable end product.

SharedBook specializes in integrating complex structured data from various web and intranet sources into a shared space, where it can be published in various forms both online and offline. The data can be retrieved in a secured and consistent manner from an XML feed (synchronously or asynchronously for perceived performance), or pushed. One of the unique aspects of this data integration involves mapping the data into a rich data model that allows flexibility for clients, partners and users to collaboratively manipulate this hierarchical data in a client-supplied environment. This collaboration technology enables users to create a personalized, customized book, combining personal data with community data interwoven with the client's supplied content and other third party content, as appropriate.

Founded in 2002 and headquartered in New York, SharedBook's original vision was formed in the late 1990's by the founder's early belief in the collaborative nature of the web. Today, SharedBook's on demand, reverse publishing platform gives Web 2.0 companies and users the capability to monetize their content through the publication of books both offline and on.