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We are proud to announce Wikipedia Tours, a first ever in publishing history (at least we think so!) Led by DailyLit, tours feature Wine 101; Presidents of the United States; “Best Picture” Oscar Winners; Famous Women throughout History; Major World Religions; Wonders of the World; Famous Inventors; World Capitals; Famous Poets and Greek Mythology. Each tour is available for free and gives you a bit of knowledge each day, with a link to the associated article on Wikipedia. Many thanks to Joe Wikert for being the creative spark behind these tours.
May 13th, 2008
We’re excited to announce that Tom Peters’ 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money is now available for free on DailyLit. Each day, you can receive in your Inbox (or via an RSS feed) a motivational tip for success in Tom Peters’ singularly irreverent style. In Tip #3, Peters describes the “THANK YOU POWER” so on that note, I’d like to thank Tom Peters and his agent, Erik Hansen, for allowing us to feature these tips and for inspiring us to make DailyLit better and better.
May 12th, 2008
Whether you read sacred texts to satisfy intellectual curiosity or out of devotion to your faith, daily interaction with religious works can inspire you in unexpected ways. To that end, we are working on offering a diverse selection of religious texts. In addition to daily installments from the Old Testament and New Testament of the Bible, DailyLit now offers The Koran (Al-Qur’an), which can be read in its entirety in 285 installments.
April 28th, 2008
Mischa Berlinski’s FIELDWORK, a National Book Awards finalist, has just been launched on DailyLit. This is the first book we’ve launched with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and we’re excited that it’s such a notable one. For more detail, please read our announcement.
April 14th, 2008
It’s a first for DailyLit. We’ve just released the highly anticipated thriller HOUSE RULES by Mike Lawson as a first serial – prior to the scheduled June 10th publication date for the book. In fact, Dickens’ books were initially published in installments, and we’re happily following in his tradition. Although unlike in Dickens’ time when folks would need to wait a week or month for the next installment, via DailyLit, you can read HOUSE RULES every day or weekday, according to your own schedule (and keep going if you have more time). It’s traditional serialization with a 21st Century technological twist, and we’re excited to be working with Grove/Atlantic.
April 10th, 2008
Harlequin titles are up and running! We now have over 100 Harlequin titles up on DailyLit, and there are 20 brand new Harlequin titles every month. Imagine how decadent it would be to read a Harlequin book on your Blackberry or iPhone during your commute or while you’re waiting to pick up the kids. And what a fun, last minute Valentine’s Day gift these books could make: Tycoon’s Valentine Vendetta; His for the Taking; or Expecting his Love Child could end up in your friend’s inbox at the click of a button. Check them out. I think I’ll send my husband one of the Hide this Italian Book for Lovers from Berlitz which teaches romantic phrases in Italian. There’s also one for French and Spanish. You can find them here. Happy Valentine’s Day!
February 13th, 2008
In the future, people will have devices they can carry wherever they go. Using the devices they will talk to each other through the air, snap pictures, organize their calendars and maybe, just maybe, even read books.
Oh wait, the future is now! But if you like reading about the future, we’ve just released a whole slew of science fiction titles, from such classics as George Tucker’s A VOYAGE TO THE MOON to David Weber’s IN FURY BORN.
November 28th, 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
We have added books in German, French, Italian and Spanish (ok, technically only one book in Spanish so far, but more to come). If there are other foreign language titles you would like to see on DailyLit, please post in the book request forum or send an email to support.
September 23rd, 2007
Hooray — we are wearing our party hats to celebrate two big milestones. There are now over 500 titles available on DailyLit and we have have processed over 100,000 subscriptions. A big thank you to all readers. We hope you enjoy DailyLit as much as we do.
August 4th, 2007
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