Going to London
DailyLit is off to the London Book Fair tomorrow to meet with publishers and agents from around the world. Cheerio chaps!
Add comment April 11th, 2008
Posts filed under 'Publicity'
First Serial Release: DailyLit Rules with House Rules
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.
Add comment April 10th, 2008
Doing the DailyLit Dance!
We’ve had our biggest day ever. DailyLit was featured on the front page of MSN and the front page of del.icio.us. With over 100,000 visitors having viewed over a million pages today, we are doing the DailyLit dance! Apologies to anyone who experienced trouble with the site today. We are working hard to accommodate the increased demand.
1 comment February 23rd, 2008
The Tools Are Changing
I’m excited to speak at the O’Reilly Tools of Change conference this week on “Dickens Meets the Blackberry: Serialization in the Digital Age.” I’ve had a lot of fun researching and preparing for the talk. At the time of Dickens books cost around 2 weeks of wages for the average worker. Serialization, i.e. offering books in short installments mostly in magazines and newspapers, for the first time made it possible for books to be read by a broad audience. Although the price of books has gone way down these days, it’s now the cost of our time that’s gone way up. It’s getting ever harder to find the time to sit and enjoy a book – and the idea of starting a big book has become daunting. Here at DailyLit, we offer digital serialization to fit reading into our crazy lives. A great case of Back to the Future!
Add comment February 10th, 2008
Over 500 Titles, Over 100,000 Subscriptions!
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.
7 comments August 4th, 2007
Vacation Diggs
So much for thinking that the holidays would be a slow time. DailyLit hit the top of digg’s front page on December 31st. We were on the ski slopes and blissfully unaware of the surge in traffic. Makes for a very happy new year.
8 comments January 3rd, 2007
DailyCandy Hearts DailyLit
We were featured in today’s New York edition of DailyCandy (no relation). They made great use of some classic titles.
5 comments November 7th, 2006