The shift to social reading is “liable to consign the traditional publisher and many a writer to decline and defeat in the Civil War for Books”, Philip Gwyn Jones is to say today (16th April), with the reader becoming the prize. In a speech at the London Book Fair this afternoon, Gwyn Jones... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-04-18 00:00:00 UTC ]
The retail colossus is aiming to recruit fan fiction writers with their own ambitions to sell, but Wattpad is winning users who want to shareIt’s a cheerful orange giant stuffed with fan fiction and smileys which can garner a billion reads for an erotic One Direction story – scoring 25-year-old... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
Mobile devices are increasingly being used for social reading and recommendation sites, the... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
The idea of "social reading" has been around for years, but there's a cluster of new companies trying to make it actually work. Two of these startups, Subtext and Findings, launched Oct. 25. Another, Readmill, built around sharing clips/excerpts, is currently being tested. Subtext, for example,... Continue reading >> [ Source: AdWeek | 2011-11-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
A new social reading app called Subtext today launches on the iPad with a selection of books laden with annotations from authors and researchers. Continue reading >> [ Source: AllThingsD | 2011-10-25 00:00:00 UTC ]