This is the new application from the creator of Twitter and Blogger
Table of contents:
- A wide catalog of books
- Read from wherever you want
- The creator of Twitter, behind the project
- The beginning of takeoff?
The Medium company has just announced the purchase of the Glose application It is a platform that allows you to buy and read a large amount of ebooks of all styles and genres. This app has books and audiobooks from some of the major international publishers, such as Penguin Random House or MacMillan. And if it already reaches almost one in 200 readers, it is possible that its success will increase considering that behind it is Ev Williams, creator among others of Twitter and Blogger.
A wide catalog of books
Medium, in addition to having the support of Williams behind it, also has a wide catalog of publications in its possession. These publications range from short blog posts to investigative journalism. This will make Glose's catalog grow to include more than a million and a half different books within its ecosystem. Although they clarify that Medium will not mix with Glose, although its users may have advantages in the recently acquired app.
To find the publication they want, users can search by book title, by author, or by subject. Once they have found what they are looking for, they can read 10% of the content for free In this way, they will be able to know if it adapts to what they really need without need to pay anything. If you like it, you can always make the purchase.
Read from wherever you want
Glose is a cross-platform tool. Therefore, you can access your content from your mobile, tablet or PC. But it also has another point in its favor, and that is that it has an interesting social component. Thus, you can create lists of books to share with your friends, join reading groups with which to comment on the works you are reading or even share the annotations you make . The idea is that reading is no longer an individual activity.
The creator of Twitter, behind the project
Ev Williams, who is embarking on this new adventure after the overwhelming success of other projects of his such as Twitter or Blogger, points out that precisely this social component as one of the main elements that differentiate this app from other electronic book readers.
In the presentation of this new project, Williams assures that most of the information on any topic is in the books However , this information is often quite difficult to find, let alone share. Therefore, the idea of Glose is to add an ever-wider catalog, so that we have at our disposal not only all the content we may need, but also the possibility of sharing it with other users.
According to Nicholas Princen, founder of Glose, the goal of this platform has always been to offer users more information to readThe union with Medium will undoubtedly be good news for this catalog to increase more and more.
The beginning of takeoff?
The reality is that after what Blogger was in its day and what Twitter has become today, it is easy to think that Glose's entry in Medium could be the definitive impulse for this platform becomes the reference place to read and share Although there are numerous applications of the same type, its differentiating elements can lead it to success.
At the moment we have platforms to buy and read books like Amazon Kindle or Google Play books and social networks where you can share like Goodreads. The possibility of combining both options in the same app can make it become one of the favorite tools of readers.
