Glose Social EBook Reader Now Available For Android Users With Free Excerpt of Books
Glose, that turns reading a book into a social activity, is now available for android. Glose is a new reading application that turns reading into a social activity. It was first available at smartphones, androids and laptops. But it wasn't available for android users.
Due to the success of the application, Glose has decided to expand their support to android users.
"Things are going well," co-founder and CEO Nicolas Princen told TechCrunch. "We basically doubled our catalog, our user base is constantly growing. We started with four big publishers, and today we have around 600 publishers."
Glose - Social Ebook Reader has now android support. Now, everybody can read and socialize to fellow bookworms, regardless your gadget.
In Glose, users have the capability to discuss a quote from a book. Comment on it. User can even see their friends annotations as inline comments. Glose is like a used book passed on from another friend. You see how the other people who have read the book interpret a part of a book. It's like the user is leaving their own "notes" to the book.
Educational books and other non-fiction books are great to use Glose. You learn more from other reader's take on the text. Learning and reading is indeed a social experience in Glose.
Aside from that, Glose offers a free excerpt of books, which Kindle doesn't offer. Glose has made excerpts of book available for the users for free.
"We are launching the biggest freemium offer on the book market," co-founder and CEO Nicolas Princen told TechCrunch. "We will let you read the first 10 percent of any book for free. We are different from Amazon as you only download a single file. You can download an excerpt and do everything you would do in Glose, and you will keep everything."
If you're still not sure if Glose Social Ebook Reader is the application for you, better try it now before 'freemium' fades out. But if you're a bookworm who wants to socialize with fellow bookworm, every ebook you buy in the app is definitely worth it and you'll experience reading in a new way. Download it in Google Play now!