wePapers is Creating the World's Biggest Study Group

An article by Ayelet Noff    1 Comment

One of the companies that I got the chance to talk to at SeedCamp Tel Aviv was wePapers, a new academic social sharing network where college and university students can work together in study groups and publish academic documents online.  I spoke to Co-Founder Hanan Weiskopf, who described to me what makes wePapers unique, what their revenue model is and what they plan for the future.

wePapers, which launched their public beta two months ago after eighteen months of development, offers two key features.  The first feature gives students the opportunity to upload documents that, as Hanan said, “would otherwise end up in a garbage can.”  Instead of the knowledge in these documents going to waste users can upload, preview and share them with other students.  The other key feature of wePapers is that it is a platform for student collaboration through study groups.  They have also partnered with Yedda to create a Q&A section on the site.

I asked Hanan how wePapers is different from applications like Google Docs and he pointed out that Google Docs was not designed with students in mind, while wePapers is.  Additionally, Google Docs allows you to share documents with a select group of people.  wePapers gives you the option to share with a few other students in a study group or to share with the world.  Additionally, as opposed to a Google search, when you search in wePapers you know that all of your results will be academic content.  You will know that it is relevant, what school it came from and who wrote it.

Hanan also talked about wePapers’ diversified revenue model.  Aside from ads, wePaper will also offer premium content by allowing publishers to publish documents, articles, books and even full courses on the site.  They also plan to sell textbooks and offer printing services so that students can bundle together content from the site and have a printed copy delivered to them.

To see my full interview with Hanan watch the video below.