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Announcing Launch of The Intellectual Devotional II

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.

Most Popular DailyLit Series of 2011

I thought it would be fun to announce the most popular series and stories on DailyLit in 2011.  Drumroll please…

1. MBA Mondays by Fred Wilson

2. The Intellectual Devotional by David Kidder and Noah Oppenheim

3. MBA Mondays II by Fred Wilson

4. Happiness Quotations by Gretchen Rubin

5. White Horse by Margaret Atwood

6. The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs

7. The Little Big Things by Tom Peters

8. Grammar Devotional by Mignon Fogarty

9. With a Little Help by Cory Doctorow

10. Words That Matter from O, The Oprah Magazine

11. Seth Godin: Unboxed

12. Hell-Heaven by Jhumpa Lahiri

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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.

DailyLit Launch of The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs

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.

DailyLit Launches The Intellectual Devotional

In case you missed it in yesterday’s newsletter, DailyLit has just launched The Intellectual Devotional on DailyLit. I’ve wanted to launch this series for a number of years, and, thanks to one of the co-authors, David Kidder, I’m thrilled to finally feature this series on DailyLit.

Here’s what the authors say about The Intellectual Devotional:
“Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection — collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same — a collection of daily lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader. Each nugget of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: History, Literature, Philosophy, Mathematics & Science, Religion, Visual Arts, and Music.” Since these lessons can literally come on a daily basis, DailyLit is a natural format in which to read this series.
We’re launching this series with 100 lessons from The Intellectual Devotional blog, The Devoted Intellect, and plan to launch a number of additional lessons in the coming year.

I hope you’re as excited by the launch of The Intellectual Devotional on DailyLit as I am.

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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.

DailyLit News: Series to Feast On

Here’s the latest news from DailyLit (arriving in Inboxes today):

What’s in here:

  • Note from the Founder
  • The Intellectual Devotional
  • The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs
  • Creative Juices for Thanksgiving

    • Note from the Founder

    Ever since starting DailyLit, I’ve wanted to launch The Intellectual Devotional on DailyLit. If you’re not familiar with The Intellectual Devotional, it’s a bestselling book which features daily lessons from literature, history, visual arts, philosophy, religion, music, and math/science. Now, after much author-hounding, negotiation and patience, I’m thrilled to announce a DailyLit version.

    It was only recently, since the death of Steve Jobs a month or so ago, that I knew I wanted to launch a series to commemorate his extraordinary life by featuring his inspirational, thought-provoking words. I hope you’ll enjoy The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs.

    With these new series to feast on, I’m reminded that Thanksgiving is right around the corner. To get you in the mood, I’ve launched a new creative challenge to invent your own imaginative dish for Thanksgiving.

    Cheers — to a happy, happy Thanksgiving!

    -Susan

    Susan Danziger
    Founder and CEO, DailyLit
    sdanziger@dailylit.com
    Twitter:@susandanziger, @dailylit

    The Intellectual Devotional

    I love the way the author describes The Intellectual Devotional: “Millions of Americans keep bedside books of prayer and meditative reflection — collections of daily passages to stimulate spiritual thought and advancement. The Intellectual Devotional is a secular version of the same — a collection of daily lessons that will inspire and invigorate the reader. Each nugget of wisdom is drawn from one of seven fields of knowledge: History, Literature, Philosophy, Mathematics & Science, Religion, Visual Arts, and Music.” And on DailyLit, the daily lessons can literally come on a daily basis. I’m thrilled to feature The Intellectual Devotional on DailyLit.

    The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs

    Ever since the death of Steve Jobs, I knew I wanted to launch this series — The Wisdom of (Steve) Jobs — that features his words on life, design and Apple. Whether or not you believe he was a visionary or charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution (he was the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Apple), his words are moving, inspirational, and sometimes even shocking.

    Creative Juices for Thanksgiving

    Since Thanksgiving is right around the corner, this month’s creative challenge is to think up a dish for Thanksgiving (recipe and all if you like). Make it literary, make it funny, make it crazy — it’s up to you. Get your creative juices flowing (so to speak!) and add your dish here.



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    DailyLit is the leading publisher of serialized books in digital form. Selected 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 wherever you receive email, including on any computer, Blackberry, tablet or iPhone.

    Double, double toil and trouble…

    I thought on this Hallowe’en I’d feature part of the witches’ spell from Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

    A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron Boiling.

    [Thunder. Enter the three Witches.]

    FIRST WITCH.
    Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.

    SECOND WITCH.
    Thrice; and once the hedge-pig whin’d.

    THIRD WITCH.
    Harpier cries:–”tis time, ’tis time.

    FIRST WITCH.
    Round about the caldron go;
    In the poison’d entrails throw.–
    Toad, that under cold stone,
    Days and nights has thirty-one
    Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
    Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!

    ALL.
    Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

    SECOND WITCH.
    Fillet of a fenny snake,
    In the caldron boil and bake;
    Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
    Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
    Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
    Lizard’s leg, and howlet’s wing,–
    For a charm of powerful trouble,
    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

    ALL.
    Double, double, toil and trouble;
    Fire, burn; and caldron, bubble.

    -Excerpt from Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Act IV, Scene 1

    Happy Hallowe’en!

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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.

    Getting Ready for Hallowe’en

    I’m planning a Hallowe’en party for my kids and 12 of their friends for later today (I don’t know what I was thinking!). In the midst of hanging scary decorations, arranging for them to make candy apples, and making hot dogs look like bloody hands, I’m reading The Legend of Sleepy Hollow on DailyLit.

    To get you in the Hallowe’en spirit (so to speak!), here are some books on DailyLit you might enjoy:
    -Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart;
    -Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow;
    -Bram Stoker’s Dracula;
    -Famous Modern Ghost Stories

    You can find other scary reads here in DailyLit’s Horror Category.

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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.

    DailyLit Launches Fashion Classics

    I am excited to announce the launch of Fashion Classics on DailyLit. In just 10 installments, this mini-course gives you the stories behind the most legendary fashion items. Given my own fashion sensibility (OK, naiveté), it was a great way for me to learn more about pieces I’ve seen (and even worn) for years.

    The author, Alexandra Suhner Isenberg, has worked for a number of major fashion companies, including Burberry and Sonia Rykiel, and is the voice behind the Searching for Style blog, where she shares her thoughts on all things fashion and design.

    Now, if only my mom didn’t dress me for years in my brothers’ hand-me-down Lacoste polo shirts…

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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.

    DailyLit Launches MBA Mondays II

    I am thrilled to announce that DailyLit has just launched a sequel to the popular MBA Mondays series written by the well-known venture capitalist, Fred Wilson. MBA Mondays II continues the series that puts business school lessons in your inbox.

    To make it easy for DailyLit readers, those of you who signed up for the initial MBA Mondays series are automatically being sent this sequel.

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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.

    DailyLit News: Banned Books Week

    The latest DailyLit news should be arriving in your inbox today. In case you miss it (or want a jump start on it), here it is:

    Note from the Founder

    It’s Banned Books Week so we’re celebrating books that have been banned through the ages. From Alice in Wonderland to The Bible, I’m always amazed at which books have been banned. So I figure what better way to celebrate the week than by picking up (or in DailyLit’s case, signing up for) a book that’s been banned. Anyone up for it? Let’s all band together against banning books!

    Cheers,

    -Susan

    Susan Danziger
    Founder and CEO, DailyLit
    sdanziger@dailylit.com
    Twitter:@susandanziger, @dailylit

    Vote for Your Favorite Banned Book

    Which is your favorite banned book? You can vote here for one of these in DailyLit’s library or any others that may have been banned:
    -Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (a classic)
    -Henry David Thoreau’s On the Duty of Civil Obedience (get inspired)
    -Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin (learn first hand why it’s controversial)
    -Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (I can’t believe that was banned)
    -And then there’s The Bible (need I say more).

    We’ve created a special category on DailyLit of Banned Books where you can find other possible entries.

    So, what’s your favorite banned book? You can vote here now.

    Creative Challenge: School Jitters

    Now that our kids have settled into school, we can all breathe a sigh of relief. But before we forget those first day jitters, I thought it would be fun to ask about your own first days of school. So in one sentence, describe a scene or memory from that time. Recall how you felt here.

    Highlight: Back to School Video Courses

    With back to school time, I thought I’d feature DailyLit’s expanded library of Khan Academy Video Courses. My kids have used them for basic math, and I’ve watched ones on the French Revolution and biology (I admit, I’ve stayed away from ones on differential equations and organic chemistry). You can find the entire DailyLit library of video courses here, including ones on investing, probability and even brain teasers. Why should kids have all the fun.

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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 43 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.

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