Glose for Mobile - A social reader for ebooks, now on Android

Hey guys, I'm the founder and CEO of Glose - the social reading platform for ebooks, available on the web and iOS. We are launching GLOSE on Android today - youhou! To celebrate this we are offering 30% OFF ALL OUR 500,000 BOOKS TO ALL PRODUCT HUNTERS. Get the discount by accessing our exclusive Product Hunt landing page and pack your app with all the New York Times best sellers and the best tech & start up books around. Glose is a social reading platform for ebooks, where you can discover, purchase, read, and engage with over 500,000 books. We make reading more social, interesting, and efficient by providing you with ways to engage with like minded readers through shared annotations in the margins of the books you like. It's like an online bookclub, where we put reading on steroids. - We packed the bookstore with all the best tech & start up books like Elon Musk and Steve Jobs' new biographies, essays by Ben Horowitz, Paul Graham, Eric Ries, Alexis Ohanian... Get 30% off all of that. - We have all the new releases from your favorite fiction and non fiction authors, from Malcolm Gladwell to Stephen King. New York Times best sellers and everything. - We are open (and begging) for feedback from so please feel free to share comments and questions! You know what's cool? Reading.

Glad to see this on Android :)

Good job guys!!! So happy to see the app running on Android

Having had been in the publishing space for an exceeding (excruitiatingly) long time, the truth is that the primary driver of adoption in these types of apps is catalog. The great thing is that most large publishers will now allow access to the back catalog (and some front), but they are also providing that access to everyone. It would seem with this product, your hope is the social aspects will be your driver of adoption. Given Goodreads and now even Kindle (and a few others) have socialized the annotation, how do expand on the concept to drive adoption?

Really nice product !

I have been using Glose for a little while and I am a fan. Congrats to the whole team!

Congrats guys great job!

Hey @micah @eriktorenberg thanks for your comment. It is true that catalog is a big driver - I'd actually say it's the minimum to qualify in the eyes of the consumer/reader. If you want people to trust you and stick with you you just need the books. We've been working on that a lot, going from 5 to 600 publishers on board in the last few months - with both back catalog and all the frontlists, and now readers find what they want on Glose. The social aspect is important to us - it's part of the vision to connect people through books and build great communities of readers who share opinions, ideas, and stories through books. Our frustration is that books are the only form of content that people can't really share or socialize through - they are absent from people's conversations on Facebook and Twitter for example - when they could power so many interesting talks. Goodreads does a great job for reviews and people socalize there "on top" of the books. We give them an opportunity to socialize and engage "through" the book - and use the momentum of their reading activity to share their inspiration with others. But the social aspect is not enough to get where we want to be, so we are innovating with new ways to distribute ebooks, help people discover the content they like differently, and get the authors involved as well. There is more coming in the Glose project and I hope we keep you interested!

@nicoprincen Will you connect to Instgram? With a connected buy button?

@nicoprincen I am a very visual consumer, just got your app:) and I wanted to share a book with my 13 year old daughter & the only social media she is on is Instagram. She and her friends have a book club at school and they all share quotes from the books that they make into pictures. If there was a way to share and then for the people seeing it could buy the book immediately. She already reads an average of 2 books a week and is costing us a fortune, but she got her addiction to books from me. She and her friends read on an app called WattPad. Personally I am more likely to buy from Pinterest or an invite from within the app, but the consumer demographic that I see with the most potential growth is on Instagram. Can't say if that will lead to sustainable sales, but if you can implement at a low cost, I think you will be pleasantly surprised. Just my opinion:).