Bookship is a social reading app for sharing your reading experiences with friends, family, co-workers and book club members. It’s a virtual book club! This post outlines ways authors can make use Bookship to connect with readers. Join our Meet …
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How to Include an Author in Your Book Club Meeting
Many people thing of authors as unreachable stars. Far from it. Many authors, even quite famous ones, will make time to visit your book club, especially if it’s a virtual visit by Zoom.
🎦🎬📖 Are you not entertained!? Live Video in Bookship, March 2021.
Live Video in Bookship!!! I imagine a lot of people are tired of Zoom meetings. The scheduling, sending the invites, trying to explain to people how to join the meeting, getting ZoomBombed. The fussing with the settings, the time limits …
👥📖 What do you call an awesome group of writers? Bookship, January 2021
What do you call an awesome group of writers? We call them Tall Poppies. Read on…. Hello and Happy New Year. We’re looking forward to 2021 and bringing you new books and book experiences this year. We’re introducing a Meet The …
Announcement: the Tall Poppies & Bookship join forces!
We are so excited to announce our partnership with the Tall Poppies Writers group, and their 10,000-strong Facebook discussion group Bloom! As you know we recently announced our new Meet the Authors program, where Bookship reading groups can meet awesome …
Meet the Author is Live! Bookship update, December 2020
I wanted to close out 2020 with a last update for the year on Bookship. First, thank you for using Bookship. We hope you’re getting value out it. Please get in touch if we can help. If there’s one thing we did …
Reading in a time of crisis (or, 10 ways to run a virtual book club)
Whether you’re panicked or calm, pretty much everyone is impacted by the measures being taken to tackle the Coronavirus (aka Covid-19) outbreak. Ourselves, we’re mostly in the calm bucket – there are plenty of people at risk, and stern measures …
Spoiler Alert! – November news from Bookship
Spoiler Alert! You know the line. “The Butler Did It!!!“. The original spoiler. When somebody tells you how the book is going to come out before you finish? Since people read at different speeds, sometimes Bookship comments turn into spoilers. …
Bugs! Awards! Your TBR! September Bookship Newsletter
Welcome to October! We hope you’re enjoying the early stages of fall and reading some great books. Recently some folks have reported the app getting “stuck”, when opening the app from a notification or after posting a comment. Our most recent …
What Bookship has learned about how social reading works
(The following appeared first in The Bookseller) Last December, Bookship – an American “social reading app” aimed squarely at the Snapchat and Instagram generation – made it through to the final BookTech pitch-off at the FutureBook 2017 conference. Its mobile-first, camera-ready sharing experience within a chat …