We experienced three separate downtimes in the last 48 hours, all related to power outages at our data center. We apologize for the inconvenience that these have caused for our readers.
Our hosting provider previously had a perfect track record and DailyLit had been available without unscheduled service interruptions. We expect to return to our usual service level shortly.
Add comment November 11th, 2007 Albert
You can safely ignore this post if you are not using gmail or google reader. It turns out that google is so eager to index the entire web that they use information from RSS feeds and gmail to do so. The Googlebot — the program which “crawls” the web to add pages to google’s index — was accessing pages that were linked to from within our emails and RSS feeds, causing subscriptions to be randomly suspended and resumed. As soon as we discovered this we instructed the Googlebot not to touch these pages. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Add comment October 14th, 2007 Albert
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.
3 comments October 7th, 2007 Albert
DailyLit had a makeover. Thanks to Phoebe Espiritu of SimplifierLab for her great new design.
Add comment October 3rd, 2007 Albert
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.
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 Albert
We have added a few new features in response to reader requests.
6 comments June 17th, 2007 Albert
Emails not getting delivered? Don’t want to give out your email address? Fear not, for now you can subscribe via RSS. For those of you already happily reading blogs and other sites via RSS go ahead and pick a book. For those of you thinking “RSS what?” you may want to watch the following video which provides a great introduction.
5 comments March 25th, 2007 Albert
If you have a blog you can now show others what you are reading on DailyLit. First you need to register. Once you are logged in click on “Home” and under the Manage heading you will see a link to Add a book roll to your blog. On that page you can pick a few options and then all you have to do is copy the code and paste it into your blog template. You can see an example of the blog roll in action on the right.
8 comments February 14th, 2007 Albert
We have added a lot of poetry including works by Thomas Hardy, William Blake, Christina Rosetti, Edna St. Vincent Millay and others. But that’s not all. In total there are over 70 new amazing books on DailyLit. Enjoy!
P.S. We have also approached several of the authors and/or publishers for titles that have been requested.
2 comments February 13th, 2007 Albert