AUGUST 19, 2010

Time to read! Lately our helper robots are swamped, but check out what's hot:

• Celebrities for Breakfast
• The Song is You
• Jacob's Room
• 2BR02B
• Craphound
• Northanger Abbey
• Ambient Findability
• Living Green: The Missing Manual
• Whistler As I Knew Him
• A Spaceship Named McGuire
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
• Emma
• His Last Bow
• Thoughts on Landscape: Collected Writings and Interviews
• The London and Country Brewer
• Middlemarch
• Radium Halos
• If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This: Stories

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The New York Entrepreneur Blog Take the Leap featured founder Travis Alber last month. Web expert Jeffery Zeldman of Zeldman.com gave our EPUB Converter a thumbs up. Impelsys reviewed the BookGlutton reading system in its newsletter.

BookGlutton's technology was represented on a panel "Enhanced Ebooks and the Social Web" at the Enhanced Ebook University (E2BU), a division of Digital Book World. Travis Alber did a guest post on their blog outlining 3 Predictions for SocialReading.

Tweet-freaks, stay current on BookGlutton News with the @BookGluttonNews stream, or see what people are reading on the @bookglutton stream. You can also keep up with the latest BG news on our blog at Frontmatters.com.

Did you know you can navigate through a book using your keyboard? Space bar will turn your page for you.

BOOKGLUTTON TAKES A BITE OF THE BIG APPLE! This Summer we headed East, to the heart of publishing: New York City. Our new office can be found at DogPatch Labs, an incubator that generously gives space, advice, and networking opportunities to startups.

DogPatch is run by Polaris Ventures, and is full of hungry startups, (right up our alley). It's also interesting to note that The Strand Bookstore is a few doors down, a nice literary coincidence not lost on your's truly.

WHAT'S THE DEAL? We spend a lot of time talking specifics, but what's the big picture? It's simple: we weave conversations through books. This differs from blog posts, news, etc. because books are timeless. It's rare to go back to a blog a year later and read posts again. Over time these will create a layer of knowledge around content that isn't possible offline: a network of additional information and commentary. To this end we're looking for two things: partners and investors. Partners are publishers and media companies interested in wrapping a social experience around their content (on our site or theirs, using our skinnable widget). As for investors, we're looking for individuals or companies inspired by the idea of social reading. and where we can take it. Contact us if you'd like to get involved.

OUT WITH THE OLD! You may have noticed some design updates in the last few months. We've changed the background, simplified the menu, and changed the style of many things in-between. Our new tag line is Books are Conversations. Cool, eh?