Sentences with phrase «readmill social reading»

This feature encourages readers to not only utilize the Readmill social reading platform, but also encourages readers to do something that publishers have found difficult: turn to their branded websites for book purchasing.

Not exact matches

Even without the social features or the highlighting features, Readmill's UI, design, and typography are enough to make it, in my opinion, the best ebook reading app available for iOS devices.

We've written before at GigaOM and PaidContent about startups that want to add social features to the reading experience, including Findings (a service for sharing highlighted passages in books, where the interview with Thompson appeared), as well as Readmill and Goodreads.

Companies like Copia have kept the focus more squarely fixed on the educational opportunities that social reading presents, such as allowing students around the world and professors at different institutions to all come together within the ebook to foster discussion and understanding; at the same time, companies like Readmill just enjoy the possibilities of connecting readers of fiction titles in what amounts to almost a virtual book club.

With Readmill's update, the biggest advantage may not actually be social connectivity based on literature, but book discovery; as readers share a book they are reading with someone who is not currently engaged in that title, new works can be suggested in a viable and meaningful way.

Once upon a time I would have said that a web - based ereader would be great for the social reading thing, but Readmill proved you don't need the reading app to be on the web to gain the social networking features of a web app.

With so much focus this year at FutureBook on the emerging ebook markets in foreign locations, Readmill's founder Henrik Berggen explained to Good e-Reader that the educational purposes for social reading may be farther reaching than just the sharing of important passages and insights.

While each platform has its standard features, newcomer Readmill offers an unique insight into what the possibilities for social reading are.

Readmill is a social reading app for iPad that lets users highlight and annotate ebooks, and share their thoughts with their social network.

Henrik Berggren from Readmill, the Berlin - based social reading startup, explained how his team had to redefine how books are consumed on digital devices.

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Social reading, whether of the Kindle highlights, Kobo Dashboard, Instapaper, Findings or Readmill flavour, adds depth to the text without diminishing it.

The screenshot above compares the usage of the Readmill social book reading iOS application between iPad (tablet) and iPhone / iPod Touch (phone) users.

There are already plenty of social reading iPad apps — Readmill, Subtext, Copia — but they either don't support Kindle books and / or don't let users create a private discussion.