Berlin-based e-reading app Readmill adds iPhone version
Berlin-based e-reading startup Readmill launched an iPhone version of its e-reading platform Wednesday. Users’ ebooks will now sync between their iPhones and iPads. Read more »
Readmill boosts independent e-books with new features
Berlin startup Readmill’s iPad-based social reading app has got plenty of attention. Now it’s getting a significant update that will make it simpler and easier to use for everyone — including making it more useful for independent publishers to hook themselves in to. Read more »
Social reading, discoverability and other unsolved problems at BEA 2012
Social reading and discoverability are not the same thing, but they have something in common: They’re the things everyone is talking about at BookExpo America this week but nobody has solved. Read more »
The decline of social-news apps and Facebook as a gatekeeper
The recent dramatic declines in users of some Facebook social-reading apps from newspapers like the Washington Post reinforces a lesson that media companies need to keep in mind at all times — namely, that Facebook is the information gatekeeper now, and you are just a provider. Read more at GigaOM »
Here’s How Social Reading Might Actually Work
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Many community-based reading apps rely on the readers to get the conversation started. That’s great if your Facebook friends are sparkling l… Read more »
