DailyLit.com - Read Books Through Email and RSS

DailyLit allows you to read books on your schedule straight from your computer. Is it hard for you to find time to sit down and enjoy a book? DailyLit will make your life easier (and more literature filled) by sending you parts of the book you have subscribed to either daily, on weekdays, or on Monday, Wednesday, Friday. You can schedule the time that the new section of the book arrives and whether it comes to you by email or RSS feed. If you have a blog and want to make reading the book more of a community experience, you can add the sections you are reading and keep it updated for your readers to enjoy. You can search for books by title, author, or category to find what you’re looking for. Once you’ve found a book that’s appealing to you, you can check out the forums and see what others have said about that book, read a few of the lines from the book to see if it’s what you’re expecting and something that interests you, and see how many installments it will take to finish the book. When you’ve had a section mailed to you, you can choose to go straight to the next installment, or just wait till it arrives in your mailbox (or feed reader). So if you have a hard time finding a few minutes to enjoy a book, you’ve found your solution with DailyLit.

“We created DailyLit because we spent hours each day on email but could not find the time to read a book. Now the books come to us by email. Problem solved. The Idea We got the idea for DailyLit after the New York Times serialized a few classic works in special supplements a few summers ago. We wound up reading books that we had always meant to simply by virtue of making them part of our daily routine of reading the newspaper. The only thing we do more consistently than read the paper is read email. Bingo! We put together a first version and began reading "War of the Worlds" and "Pride and Prejudice". We showed it to friends, added more books and features at their request, and presto, DailyLit was born.”

People spend tons of time checking their email, so breaking a book down and making it so easy to keep updated with is very appealing to the net community. It is also then possible for you to enjoy books without ever having to pay a penny at costly bookstores. As people enjoy their books through email and RSS feed, they’re likely to come back and enjoy more of the options available from the site.

How are they making a profit from the site? Do they have to buy rights to allow people to enjoy all of this literature for free? Will they offer enough new options to keep people interested, or will they want something more new and hot and opt to just go to the bookstore instead?