The link below is to an article that looks at the troubles between Goodreads and BookLikes.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/10/11/goodreads-says-booklikes-deleting-user-content-call-bs/
Category Archives: Web Applications and Social Networks
Article: Using Pinterest to Create Reading Lists
The link below is to an article that provides a step by step guide to using Pinterest for creating reading lists.
For more visit:
http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2013/09/22/using-pinterest-to-create-reading-lists/
Will the Digg Effect make a comeback?
During the latter half of the naughties (2000s), Digg was one of the premier destinations on the web. If your story ended up on the front page of Digg, then you were rewarded by hundreds of thousands of page views, quite a bounty considering publishers big and small made (and still make money) for page-view based advertising. The traffic bump came to be known as the Digg effect (much like being Slashdotted.) Digg, obviously fell on hard times and it was just over a year ago, it was acquired by New York-based technology and media company, Betaworks.
John Borthwick, chief executive of Betaworks, had a plan — Digg still was a good brand and was an ideal vehicle for his vision of a social-data powered recommendation service and news reader. The early attempt at that social news reader, News.me, hadn’t really gone anywhere and they were ready to shut it…
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Where to find your next read: Book recommendation sites you should know about
Looking for new books to add to your summer reading list? You probably already know to check sources like Goodreads and the New York Times book reviews, but that’s not always enough. Here are a few of my favorite non-obvious sources for online book recommendations.
Shelf Awareness for Readers
This free, twice-weekly email newsletter from book trade publication Shelf Awareness launched in 2011 and is still one of my favorite places to learn about new books. The newsletter comes out on Tuesdays and Fridays (or you can read it online) and in each issue, independent booksellers and reviewers recommend 25 books that have just hit stores. While some bestsellers from big authors are included, plenty of books from small presses and debut authors are also included, making this a good place to learn about books you probably wouldn’t have heard of otherwise.
Publishers Lunch Bookateria
Bookateria, which launched…
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Article: New Spotify for eBooks
The link below is to an article reporting on yet another Spotify for ebooks – this time in the Netherlands.
For more visit:
http://www.the-digital-reader.com/2013/08/11/new-spotify-for-ebooks-to-launch-soon-in-the-netherlands/
The short story of Longreads, according to founder Mark Armstrong
Mark Armstrong, like many people in New York City, was a commuter — he commuted to Time Inc.’s midtown Manhattan offices from Cobble HIll, Brooklyn, and it was the tedium of the commute that led him to seek ways to keep himself busy when he was without Wi-Fi. One day he found Instapaper, and before he knew it, there was a lot of stuff he could save and read when offline.
Soon he was asking the question: What if there were a service that aggregated the very best articles on the web for commuters like him to read on his iPhone? A single article a day would do. He asked the question to his Twitter freinds and asked them to share stories with him with the hashtag #longreads. Replies poured in, and so did links to other stories. And with that Longreads, a service that curates quality writing from…
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Article: PDF4Kindle
The link below is to an article that looks at PDF4Kindle, which as the name suggests, converts pdf format files to Kindle format files.
For more visit:
http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2013/07/pdf4kindle-converts-pdf-files-to-native-kindle-books/
Article: Pressure Reading
The link below is to an article that considers pressure reading – that is reading while feeling pressure from reading social networks such as Goodreads. I can’t say that I feel any pressure like this – what about you? Share your experiences in the comments.
For more visit:
http://www.themillions.com/2010/08/bats-in-the-bookshelves-the-perils-of-literary-social-networking.html
Article: Widbook
The link below is to an article that takes a quick look at the collaborative writing site ‘Widbook.’
For more visit:
http://www.mediabistro.com/appnewser/widbook-writing-community-aims-to-help-writers-readers-collaborate_b38059
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