Show HN: authors, here's a new idea for promoting your book

Last year, I was running an independent marketplace for ebooks (similar to Smashwords), which failed.

After its demise, we took a long look at ebooks and decided rather than competing with Amazon and iTunes, we should focus on solving a more pressing problem most authors face: how to get their books noticed in the first place.

The result is BookHunch, which is an attempt to mobilize people via social media to read, review, and create buzz about a given book.

That's the quick summary, but there's a more detailed history on my blog, as well as a preview article on the Digital Reader blog.

We started with a few public domain books, but now we're opening up to new content.

So if there any authors here who'd like to try it, please comment here, or contact us through twitter @bookhunch, and I'll send you an invite.