Posts Tagged ‘readers’

Reader Spotlight: Distance and Dickinson Make the Heart Grow Fonder

We’ve received some great reader stories since we called for them in our last newsletter–check out how one reader has made an innovative online book club. We loved this story a reader shared with us on our recent survey, especially since it’s still February, the month of love:

Daily Lit is great. My fiance and I are separated by 1000km and we both get Emily Dickinson sent to our inboxes and it arrives at the same time. It’s lovely.

Thanks so much to this (anonymous) reader for sharing this great way to connect with loved ones who are far away.

Do you have a DailyLit reader story? Share with us at support[at]dailylit[dot]com.

Top 10 Books on DailyLit

Ever wondered what people are reading on DailyLit? Here’s our list of the top 10 most popular titles on our site since we first started serving up books.

–Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
–The Art of War by Sun Tzu
–100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money by Tom Peters
–Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
–Moby Dick by Herman Melville
–Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow
–The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
–War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
–The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
–Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It’s a pretty impressive list–clearly our readers aren’t afraid of a challenge! Anna Karenina or War and Peace, anyone?

DailyLit Readers: Who We Are

Thanks again to all of you who took our recent reader survey. We wanted to share some of the information we got from the survey so you can know a little bit more about the people reading with you in the DailyLit community. Here are some of the most interesting details:

Age
26-35 19.5%
36-45 16.7%
46-55 22.9%
56-65 19.4%
66 or older 9.5%
Good to know: Love of reading never gets old.

Gender
Male 25.7%
Female 74.3%
Good to know: Women who read DailyLit, the women who run DailyLit–Susan and MaggieH–say howdy.

Do you have children?
Yes 51.3%
No 48.7%

How many books have you read in the past 12 months?
4-10 21.6%
11-20 24.4%
21-30 15.3%
Good to know: In addition to all of those books being read, 17.4% of you reported reading more than 50 books in the last 12 months. DailyLit: singlehandedly (well, many-handedly) disproving the idea that “people don’t read anymore.”

DailyLit Reader Spotlight: DailyLit Readers using Google Wave for Book Club

In our most recent newsletter we asked you to share your DailyLit stories with us–when you read, how DailyLit has affected your life, what you use the service for. One of the most interesting stories we’ve received so far has been this one from Christin, who writes:

I’ve been pleased with what my group of friends and I have done [with DailyLit]. We’re all very into Google Reader and Google Wave, so we’ve started a DailyLit book group using those as the medium. We have a single RSS feed from DailyLit to which all of us (about a dozen, a combination of coworkers and friends) subscribe, and we discuss each day’s installment on a running Wave. We just finished Heart of Darkness, and now we’re tackling The Picture of Dorian Gray. As we’re all several years out of school, we’d been collectively lamenting that we don’t read enough classic literature anymore, and group-reading online is fantastic both for ease-of-use and keeping ourselves accountable. Thanks!

It’s a great idea to use Google Wave with DailyLit for book clubs–hope this encourages more people to try it.

If you have a DailyLit story to share please email us at support[at]dailylit[dot]com.

Announcing Survey Winners of Advance Copy of Major Novel

Lots of you took our recent Reader Survey and we want to express our thanks–your feedback is incredibly helpful!

As promised we chose five lucky winners at random, each of whom will receive a free advance copy of bestselling novelist Henning Mankell’s new thriller The Man from Beijing. (It’s available in the U.S. starting February 16.) Congratulations to our winners:

Leah59
Canutillo
muse03
agauthier79
booka

Happy reading!