New editorial model

Interesting approach of using online crowds to separate wheat from chaff when looking up for next blockbuster book. Of course it all depends on the quality of people who are judging the content:

Shapiro has assembled a group of 50 readers, who are supposed to vet the stories. The first 1,000 words of each submission are sent to a subset of those readers, who are then asked whether they’d read more.

source: techcrunch.com