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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.

H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds – First Book on Your Phone?

Today is H.G. Wells’ birthday. Here’s why I’m celebrating him today: his War of the Worlds was the very first book loaded onto DailyLit. That’s because my husband, Albert Wenger, always wanted to read War of the Worlds, and DailyLit’s email installments (read on his mobile phone) gave him that chance. In fact, since I believe DailyLit was the first to put books on mobile devices (that was before any apps or Kindles or iPads) War of the Worlds may have been the very first book that could be read on your phone.

So cheers, to H.G. Wells!

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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.

Happy Birthday, Agatha Christie! Love, DailyLit

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.

DailyLit’s Expanded Library of Khan Academy Video Courses

Now that the kids are settling back into school, I thought I’d feature DailyLit’s expanded library of Khan Academy Video Courses. There are now 20 courses teaching a range of subjects from history and math to science and finance. And there’s even a course on Brain Teasers for those of you up to the challenge. If you’re not familiar with the Khan Academy, I’m a huge fan. My kids have used them to learn certain math concepts, and I’ve watched a few myself. OK, I admit I haven’t lunged for the courses on differential equations or organic chemistry; the history and biology courses are more my speed.

Here’s a list of the Khan Academy Video Courses featured on DailyLit:

HISTORY
-Revolutionary and Napoleonic France (12 parts)

MATH:
-Algebra (78 parts)
-Arithmetic (35 parts)
-Calculus (146 parts)
-Developmental Math (114 parts)
-Differential Equations (45 parts)
-Geometry (24 parts)
-Pre-Calculus (33 parts)
-Probability (25 parts)
-Trigonometry (32 parts)

SCIENCE:
-Biology (59 parts)
-Chemistry (103 parts)
-Organic Chemistry (73 parts)

FINANCE/ECONOMICS:
-Credit Crisis (13 parts)
-Current Economics (10 parts)
-Finance (84 parts)
-Paulson Bailout (14 parts)
-Valuation and Investing (12 parts)
-Venture Capital and Capital Markets (9 parts)

JUST FOR FUN
-Brain Teasers (9 parts)

So surprise your family and friends with your newfound knowledge — who knows, you might even be able to (finally) help your kids with their homework.

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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.

Auf Wiedersehen!

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.

DailyLit News: Time to Chillax

In case you miss the latest arriving in inboxes today, here it is:

NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER

I think we have it all wrong. We should all be taking off the month of August. There is absolutely no reason we should be sitting at our desks, pretending to work when we could be out by the water “chillaxing” (that is, chilling and relaxing). So I thought I’d highlight the next best thing: a few short stories to transport ourselves to other lands and various creative challenges to keep our minds off work.
So cheers, to chillaxing!
-Susan

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

SHORTS AND TAILS
Here are some short stories and tails (well, OK, tales) for some light summer reading:
-Margaret Atwood’s White Horse (meeting her was one of the high points of the year; what an amazing woman!)
-Jhumpa Lahiri’s Hell-Heaven (one of my favorite authors)
-Classic Shorts (featuring stories by Fitzgerald, Chekhov, and Poe; selected by editors of Poets & Writers literary magazine)
-Grimm’s Fairy Tales (I still can’t remember the difference between Rapunzel and Rumpelstiltskin; can you?)
-Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (I’ve been meaning to re-read this novella — or do I just think I’ve read it?)
-E.M. Forster’s A Room with a View (always transports me to Florence!)

VOTRE PASSEPORT, SI’L VOUS PLAÎT

Even if you can’t swing a trip to France or Spain this summer, you can armchair travel with Berlitz Essential French Phrases or Berlitz Essential Spanish Phrases.

HIGHLIGHT: CREATIVE CHALLENGES

At least look as though you’re getting serious work done by tackling one of these past creative challenges (or just check out other readers’ contributions):
- 50 Word Challenge (write an extremely short story with a beginning, middle and end)
-10 Word Summer Memories (quick, before you forget!)
-Summer Love in One Sentence (who can resist?)
-What’s Your Favorite Word? (Mine is “chillax” — introduced to me by my 11 year old son as in, “You need to chillax, Mom.”)
-And then for a couple of aspirational, thought-provoking challenges: What’s Your Sentence? (need to think of a sentence that describes your life) and Before I die… (enough said).
-Your Perfect Day (our latest challenge: “What does your perfect day look like?” Mine would start in a cafe in Paris reading The International Herald Tribune, eating a freshly-baked croissant and sipping cafe au lait; I’d then hang out at Shakespeare & Company bookshop followed by a stroll through the gardens of the Picasso Museum.) And yours? What’s your perfect day?

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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.

DailyLit Features Koran at Start of Ramadan

Today marks the first day of Ramadan. I gather that since Ramadan is a time to worship Allah and since part of that worship includes reciting passages from The Koran, I thought I’d feature The Koran today on DailyLit.

So if you’d like to read The Koran in daily installments delivered directly to your email inbox you can sign up 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 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.

Happy Quatorze Juillet!

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.

Birthday Greetings to Henry David Thoreau!

In memory of Henry Thoreau’s birthday today, I thought I’d feature some great lines of his from Walden:

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.”

“I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.”

“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”

“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw them out the window in disgust.”

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

“A lake is the landscape’s most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth’s eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature.”

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

Happy birthday, Henry David Thoreau!

You can find Walden (for free, of course) here on DailyLit.

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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.

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