Travis Alber, the President of BookGlutton, has an article entitled The Meaning of Social Reading and Where It's Headed, at the E2BU site. Check it out, Travis is always worth listening to. And speaking of listening, Travis will also be part of a free Webinar "Enhanced Ebooks and the Social Web" which will be webcast live on Wednesday, August 18 at 1pm EDT. You can find more information here. Richard Nash, founder of Cursor, will also be on the panel, and Richard always livens things up!...

Congrats to Book Glutton! This is from their Facebook page: Great news! BookGlutton has been named a Webby Award Honoree in the Community Category. They tell us out of a whopping 10,000 entries submitted to the 14th Annual Webby Awards, less than 15% are awarded the status of Official Honoree. Entries came from all 50 states and over 60 countries worldwide. It’s a big deal, and we’re humbled by it. Moreover, there are only two book sites listed this year – our partner Goodreads is the only other one we found. Represent! This isn’t the first time BG has gotten a...

For those publishers interested in using BookGlutton to publish their books, BookGlutton has put up an article about how to do this and how to use their content management system, which reads Epub, incorporates Onix and uses the agency model. You can: * -Maintain your publisher profile page * -Interact directly with your readers and customers * -Maintain a catalog of your EPUB titles * -Instantly publish on a per-title basis * -Control whether your files may be downloaded or not * -Set your own prices on titles, changing them at any time * -See real-time sales reports across all titles * -Receive notifications whenever a title...

From Rita Toews: Read an E-Book Week is gearing up for the 2010 event - March 7 - 13th. An impressive list of participants includes Kobo, PocketBook E-Reader and BookGlutton. Also joining in the celebration of e-books is Smashwords, as well as Badosa.com, with a selection of e-books in Spanish, Catalan, English and French. The Wright State University Libraries of Ohio will also recognize the week. They have created a special template that librarians can download from the Read an E-Book Week website to produce lapel buttons for library staff. This year a section containing resource articles has been added to the site....

Thanks to Kay Meyer's Facebook page I found out that BookGlutton made Fox News. Here's what Fox says: If you want to join a book club but can't seem to find one, or if you're in one and can't seem to agree on what to read, there's a Web site you may want to try. BookGlutton.com is a site where anyone with a computer and Internet access can read and discuss a variety of books. Users have access to BG's "Unbound Reader," which displays books with two side panels for discussion. You can chat with other users about the book...

Book Glutton has launched streamlined sites for the iPhone and Android. Here's a video of how they work. ...

The nice folks at BookGlutton have revised their video. If you don't know about them then take a look at how it works. It really is a unique service. ...

BookGlutton has a new bookstore. BG’s news release follows. – Paul Biba BookGlutton.com, an online reading website that integrates community with books, has launched an online bookstore featuring technology publisher O’Reilly Media’s newest titles. Beginning today, visitors to the site will be able to browse over 500 O’Reilly titles, read them online together, and share annotations about them. The addition of an e-commerce platform expands BookGlutton’s catalog beyond public domain titles. “Since launch we’ve steadily worked on building out an e-commerce system that integrates with our social network.” said co-founder and CTO Aaron Miller. “We’ve also signed...

I got the following email from Travis Alber. This could be a great service to the community and certainly is priced at a level that anyone can afford. Here's what Travis has to say: I wanted to drop you a quick note - as of today we've rewritten and re-released BookGlutton's EPUB converter as a paid service. Emphasis now is on providing EPUBs that validate, for maximum compatibility, and also on the EPUB authoring process - providing feedback along the way so that EPUBs can be created with common tools used in web design. People who know HTML can now, fairly easily, make a...

I’ve been pestering the IDPF to do shared annotations or at least pick up others’ standards in this area. And if there can be instant chat, then so much the better. Well, even if the standards group isn’t paying sufficient attention to the importance of interactivity, others are starting to---notably, National Public Radio. NPR’s Laura Sydell interviewed Travis Alber of BookGlutton. An excerpt from the text version: Reading a book evokes solitary images of lying in bed late at night or sitting beneath a beach umbrella lost in a fantasy....

The Book Glutton people are so nice that it is always a pleasure to give them a little bit of publicity. This is from a press release I received: The Random House Publishing Group has joined forces with the social reading platform BookGlutton to offer a chapter giveaway promotion of Sarah Dunant’s forthcoming novel SACRED HEARTS, on sale July 14. Beginning today, the Random House imprint will make the first four chapters of SACRED HEARTS available to BookGlutton.com users. Special features will include an essay by the author and notes sprinkled throughout the pages about her extensive research for the...

At the IDPF Conference I met Andrew Sacher who is CEO of Word-Player. This is an ebook reader for Android. Andrew said that the app will read EPUB and that he had gotten 60K downloads in the last 2 months. You can connect directly from the app to Feedbooks or Gutenberg. According to Andrew it was easy to put the app together in a programming sense and he gets good support from the Android website. He also said that it was very easy to upload the program to the Android app store and it was on...