You can safely ignore this post if you are not using gmail or google reader. It turns out that google is so eager to index the entire web that they use information from RSS feeds and gmail to do so. The Googlebot — the program which “crawls” the web to add pages to google’s index — was accessing pages that were linked to from within our emails and RSS feeds, causing subscriptions to be randomly suspended and resumed. As soon as we discovered this we instructed the Googlebot not to touch these pages. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
October 14th, 2007
We are excited that we can now feature best-selling and/or well-reviewed contemporary titles on DailyLit. These titles are copyrighted, and we charge a fee so that we can pay publishers, authors and ourselves :) Most of these titles have free sample installments so you can first decide whether you like a book — you only pay if you want to continue reading. We are adding a broad range of titles including motherhood (e.g., Smotherhood), humor (e.g., Gullible’s Travels), science fiction (e.g., In Fury Born), war (e.g., From Baghdad with Love), romance (e.g., Heiress) with many more titles to come before the end of the year.
P.S. Not to worry — public domain and creative commons titles will remain free.
October 7th, 2007
DailyLit had a makeover. Thanks to Phoebe Espiritu of SimplifierLab for her great new design.
October 3rd, 2007