Sentences with phrase «social reading startup»

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

The system resembles a more competition - focused version of social reading startup Wattpad in some ways, but this is very much commerce driven, whereas Wattpad is about providing a free publishing platform for entire works first, and only recently started dabbling in crowdsourcing with its crowdfunding book publishing experiments.

Today's feature story, «Big in Berlin: Social Reading Startups Readmill and dotdotdot,» looks at two companies working on helping to bring readers together through social reading experiences and platforms.

Not exact matches

Pao is on the board of three Kleiner - backed startups, including Flipboard, a hot maker of software for reading content on smartphones and tablets — one of Kleiner's highest - profile bets on mobile and social apps.

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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.

Now, entrepreneur / venture capitalist / author Brad Feld, founder of Tech Stars and the Foundry Group, has taken the idea of social reading to a new place, allowing those who connect through the title Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in your City, to have virtual meetings in Twitter - like conversations, share notes in the title, and forge business connections that could have real - world impact.

The trend in earlier years toward disrupting existing publishing models with new startups like the now - established Wattpad or the social reading community Goodreads, since acquired by Amazon, seems to have slowed in 2015.