BookShout closes the door to the Kindle and Nook - ActuaLitté - Actualitté.com

is a very personal way to promote social reading ebooks: the U.S. start-up BookShout announced Thursday fundraising of $ 6 million in a second round of funding. Meanwhile, the Dallas-based company has made unavailable functionality of its platform. Not least because his manager digital reading now prevents loading books stamped Kindle and Nook.

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“ edition is a major point of slipping from creation to distribution and consumption, but the big players like Amazon or Barnes & Noble dismissed the authors and publishers preventing them to make contact with their readers , “said Jason Illian, boss BookShout.

The decision to cut the main market actors is severe, especially as the platform emphasizes the promotion of books and reading social. Paid Content reveals that the abeyance of this collaboration is not final, but the decision will be based “on the relationship publishers ” dealing with the company.

But it has so far not bothered raising funds through a venture capital firm that had already invested in start-ups. “By providing a framed service measurable to authors and publishers, BookShout eliminates the speculative work and create tools that enable content creators to take control of their readership ,” said the investor.

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Available on Android and iOS, BookShout accept a series of tools to encourage business promotional sales, purchasing batch and gift cards. Not to mention the number of its users, the company reported 250 publishing partners and a figure of 100,000 ebooks sold through its service.

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