I’m pleased to announce that DailyLit has just launched a sequel to the first Intellectual Devotional series on DailyLit — The Intellectual Devotional II.

The Intellectual Devotional has proved to be one of DailyLit’s most popular series.  It’s based on the bestselling Intellectual Devotional series by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim and features daily lessons drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: History, Literature, Philosophy, Mathematics & Science, Religion, Visual Arts, and Music. Readers have consistently raved about this series.

You can read more about The Intellectual Devotional II (and sign up for it) here.  And if you missed the first in The Intellectual Devotional series, you can find it here.

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 47 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

This week DailyLit launched The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs to commemorate a man whom some have called a “visionary” and “the pioneer of the personal computer revolution” (he’s the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple). After hearing of his death this past month, I watched a video of his speech at Stanford University’s graduation. I knew then that I wanted to create and launch a series that featured his words, which I found so inspiring.

I hope you’ll enjoy The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs on DailyLit — and if you have a chance, watch his moving graduation speech.

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 47 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

In honor of Agatha Christie’s birthday today, DailyLit is featuring two of her works available on DailyLit (for free, of course):

-The Mysterious Affair at Styles (77 parts)
Here’s a description:
This is Agatha Christie’s first novel and the debut of her infallible detective Hercule Poirot. In the midst of World War One, a group of guests at an old mansion in the countryside find themselves caught up in a murder plot. Someone has been poisoned to death and the killer is at large among the visitors. Who could it be? Who else may lose their lives before the killer is caught? Luckily, Hercule Poirot is on the case and, as befits the best murder mysteries, a tangled web of secrets and dark motives is revealed as Poirot’s brilliant methods bring him closer and closer to the truth.

-Secret Adversary (102 parts)
Here’s what it’s about:
Down on their luck and without any prospect of employment, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley come up with a plan for financial success: to form their own detective agency. To their surprise, Tuppence is offered a job right away. To protect her identity, she uses a pseudonym, borrowing a name that she and Tommy had heard at random in a conversation in town. When Tuppence tells her potential employer, Mr. Whittington, that her name is “Jane Finn,” however, he begins acting strangely and makes Tuppence promise to keep a certain mysterious piece of knowledge secret in exchange for money. Tuppence has no idea what this knowledge might be, but clearly there is more to Jane Finn than either she or Tommy ever could have imagined. With a strong appetite for a good mystery, Tommy and Tuppence embark on a quest to figure out just who Jane Finn might be and exactly what top-secret information she might have. The two rookie detectives are in for a wild ride, certainly more than they ever bargained for on their first case. Try to keep up with them as they navigate a newfound world of intrigue, conspiracy, and danger.

Happy birthday, Agatha Christie!

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 40 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

Assuming all goes well, I’ll have arrived in Germany early this morning (I’m writing this post in advance given my for-certain-bleary-eyed-state after any night flight).

So, I thought I’d take this time to highlight books by German authors on DailyLit (from the brothers Grimm to Thomas Mann to Friedrich Nietzsche). You can even read books in their original German here. I’m afraid my German isn’t quite up for it (maybe one day I’ll get to the Oberstufe); how about you?

Viel Spass!

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 40 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.

We’re celebrating the French national holiday, Quatorze Juillet (July 14th) today, also known as Bastille Day. To celebrate, I thought I’d feature titles by French authors available (for free of course) on DailyLit:

-Jules Verne’s Around the World in Eighty Days in French here and in English here

-Emile Zola’s Therese Raquin in French here or in English here

-Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame in English

-Alexandre Dumas’ The Three Musketeers in English

And for those of you who want to learn French, you can get daily installments of Berlitz Essential French Phrases.

Happy Quatorze Juillet!

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DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected to be the #1 Book Website by the Sunday Times, DailyLit has sent over 40 million book installments. DailyLit’s books and series are all free and feature bestselling and award-winning titles. Installments can be read in fewer than 5 minutes and can be read wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, or iPhone.