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Chris Messina@chrismessina · 🏆 PH Community Member of the Year!
What did you learn from Readmill's failure, and why won't you suffer the same fate?
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Nicolas Princen@nicoprincen · Founder & CEO, Glose
@chrismessina Thanks for asking. I wouldn't talk about a failure and we have a lot of respect for what the Readmill team did designing a great reading app and community. We have learned a lot talking to them. The main difference of approach though is that Glose has its own bookstore, whereas Readmill only relied on readers uploading their own ebooks to sour… See more
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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
@nicoprincen just curious - if I buy the Steve jobs bio and begin annotating it, am I able to pull in my friends to a given quote? Would they have to buy that book as well to comment with me?
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Nicolas Princen@nicoprincen · Founder & CEO, Glose
@Shwinnabego Thanks for asking! The answer is : no they would not have to buy the book to comment your post and engage with the quote you annotated. The way it works it the following : you read "Steve Jobs" and annotate a quote you like. When you do that, both the quote and your annotation are posted to your profile - it's as if you had extracted them from … See more
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Ashwinn@shwinnabego · Co-founder, Point
@nicoprincen that's amazing, and I really like how that flow sounds. I was praying that amazon kindle/highlights would do something like this but they've fallen off the radar in building any type of community. Going to hop on Glose now!
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