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Unbooked What is Unbooked? A term that at one time was limited to 'not written in a book'. Common usage extended this context to allow it to be used to mean unrecorded - as in accounting (transactions not recorded in the accounting records). Today, the term unbooked is widely used to refer to available time in a service providers booking sheet - unbooked time at the dentist, the hair salon, the gymnasium. More recently, there has been a flurry of businesses that have built up around this term, including Unbooked Pregancy Testing, and most recently, Unbooked Appointment aggregation. The Unbook Movement A movement started by Jay Cross, called the unbook. The driving forces behind the movement are the acceleration of business change and the inability of traditional publishing to keep up. With new technologies such as print-on-demand and online marketplaces, authors can now publish books, in both electronic and print formats, at the push of a button. The unbook, due to these factors, operates in a fundamentally different way than the traditional book. A traditional book is released in editions. When a work is revised or updated, a new edition is released. These revised or updated editions usually offer small, incremental changes, such as a new preface or introduction, a new chapter, or small changes to the content. An unbook is more like software: 1. An unbook is never finished, but rather continually updated, based on feedback from users andtheir evolving needs. 2. An unbook is released in versions. As in open source software, version 1.0 of an unbook is a significant milestone, indicating that it is stable and reliable enough for use by the general public. The significance of a new release is indicated by the size of the gap: For example, the difference between 1.1 and 1.1.3 is minor, while the difference between 1.1 and 2.0 is major. 3. An unbook is supported by a community of users who share their experiences and best practices with each other, and help each other troubleshoot problems encountered in their practice areas. An unbook’s community is a very real part of the unbook’s development team. Unbooked Businesses A range of businesses have evolved making use of the Unbooked Business model, a model that aggregates under-utilised or unbooked capacity in that specific industry. Examples of businesses of this type include Expedia, wotif, OpenTable, and more recently Unbooked 
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