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
Happy to announce that we are now a member of Return Path’s Sender Score Certified Program. What does this mean for you? If your ISP/email provider checks, then it means DailyLit messages are less likely to be mistaken for spam. If you are having trouble with DailyLit emails occasionally not coming through you may want to suggest to your ISP/email provider to participate in this program (it’s free for them!).
We have had a lot of requests for books available under various Creative Commons licenses. Happy to report that we have just released support for this by adding a link to the correct license at the beginning of each email. Our first title is Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow and we will be adding more titles shortly. Please post suggestions in the book request forum.
We are taking DailyLit offline for a couple of hours tonight (Friday, January 26) to add forums and an improved design developed by Dagny Prieto.
Update: Site is back up and running.
5 comments January 26th, 2007 Albert
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.
9 comments January 3rd, 2007 Albert
Dailylit emails are again being blocked by Hotmail and MSN. We are working on having them unblocked. In the meantime we apologize to our Hotmail and MSN subscribers for the inconvenience.
8 comments December 10th, 2006 Albert