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Dallas startup Bookshout! has raised $6 million for its platform that helps authors and publishers expand their audience.
Childrens book application FarFaria is celebrating its first birthday by announcing major milestones, "record-setting" reading engagement, and its vision for the world of children's literacy.
Worldreader launches a new mobile program that makes thousands of books available to people in the developing world through their low-end feature phones.
According to a new report, advocates of the printed page are an increasingly rare breed.
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Reading Rainbow is making a big comeback, and it’s skipping your TV in favor of the other screen in your living room: your iPad.
In an in-depth chat in VentureBeat’s San Francisco studio, Reading Rainbow host LeVar Burton talked about …
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Goodreads is an app for those who are both bookish and web-friendly, and in a recent call with VentureBeat, founder Otis Chandler told us Facebook’s new Timeline-focused actions are just about the best thing that’s ever happened to the company.…
Undisputed fact I just made up: The more time we spend online, the dumber and more myopic we get.
Hacker Noah Litvin set out to combat that observable phenomenon with DailyPag.es, an app that works a lot like an online …
Over an ice coffee on an unseasonably warm January day, Longform co-founder Aaron Lammer took VentureBeat for a test drive through the startup’s new iPad app, which debuts today at noon. The company, which curates the best long form journalism …
Amazon released a new plug-in for the Kindle Thursday that allows you to “print” files to your e-reader.
In the past, loading files that weren’t from the Kindle e-book store has been a pain. Instapaper, a service that lets you …
MeMeTales wants to make reading “the funnest thing ever.” Yep, the funnest. The mobile application launched its publishing product today, with the intent of roping kids into a love of reading.
There are many different devices and mobile apps for …
For developers, it was Apple’s way or the highway. It seems like that highway seems more appealing every day.
The team behind iPhone app Readability issued a biting public response to Apple after its application was rejected because it did …
