Chris Anderson's BookTour Venture Gets $350,000

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on April 13, 2009 - 8:22am.

San Francisco - BookTour, an online community that lets authors publicize speaking events, has raised $350,000 in its first round of funding, from backers including Amazon.com (NASD: AMZN), PEHub.com reported, citing a regulatory filing.

San Francisco-based BookTour is headed by chairman Chris Anderson, also editor-in-chief of Conde Nast's Wired magazine.

The site lets authors create online profiles, and publicize their book tour speaking events, as well as interact with readers.

http://www.booktour.com