Thanksgiving is here! As we gather this year to reflect on what makes us grateful, we want to take a moment to thank all of your support, whether it’s helping us to translate Aldiko’s user interface to other languages (by the way, with your help, Aldiko’s user interface has 16 different languages now:), doing beta testing, giving us feedback and suggestions or simply using Aldiko Book Reader app , your support means so much for us.
We wish all of you a very happy Thanksgiving!
Techcrunch DISRUPT Beijing is here! This is the first time DISRUPT has been brought abroad.
We’re exhibiting in the Startup Alley today and tomorrow (Oct 31-Nov 1). If you are at Beijing, please stop by for a chat and take a quick look at what we’re doing!
Here are some pictures of the first day:
We’re at Frankfurt Book Fair 2011, the largest and most important annual book fair in a year. Here are some pictures to share:
The annual Read an Ebook Week event starts today. Aldiko continues to support Read an Ebook Week this year. The purpose of the Read an Ebook Week event is to raise the public awareness of electronic reading. Ebook market is definitely growing rapidly, according to IDPF’s latest data, US Ebook sales has grown by 112% in Q3 2010. Looking at our internal statistics, over 3 millions users are using the Aldiko Book Reader app to read ebooks and Aldiko users download about 1.7 million books per month in total.
To celebrate this week-long special event, different content partners of Aldiko will offer ebooks for free. You can check out the “Read an Ebook Week” special catalog under Smashwords, the large selection of high-quality free books under Feedbooks as well as the free reads under All Romance Ebooks in the Store section of the Aldiko Book Reader app. In additional, we have been working together with content partners to expand the selection of titles in the Store of the Aldiko Book Reader app. New York Times best sellers and other popular English and French titles have been added to the Store, more local language titles will be added very soon.
Happy reading!
Happy Halloween to everyone! While you are busy at dressing up and attending Halloween parties, here is a list of books for your Halloween pleasure. Enjoy!
-Dracula
-Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
-House of Mystery #1
-House of Mystery #2
-House of Mystery #3
-Frankenstein
-The Phantom of the Opera
-The Invisible Man
-Nightwing #14
-The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
-Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #23
-Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #29
-The Dunwich Horror
-House of Weird
-The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
-At the Mountains of Madness
-The Outsider
Aldiko has announced to support the “Read an Ebook Week ” event this year (March 7-13) to celebrate the joy of electronic reading. The press release is as follows:
Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., February 25, 2010 — Aldiko Limited announced today that it is supporting Read an Ebook Week, an international literary event which will be held in March 7-13.
The purpose of the Read an Ebook Week is to raise the public awareness of electronic reading. Read an Ebook Week’s website (http://www.ebookweek.com/) provides information on the latest ebook reading devices, different ebook stores, benefits of ebooks, as well as the history and the future of ebooks. Visitors will be able to download free reads from different major retailers, authors and publishers during the Read an Ebook Week event period.
Aldiko Book Reader application allows users to seamlessly download thousands of content from different publishers right on their mobile devices, including Smartphones, tablets and other multi-purpose mobile devices, read at anywhere and anytime, organize their personal digital library on the go. It’s a one-stop place for users to discover, browse, purchase, download, read and organize a large selection of ebooks.
“We are pleased to support the Read an Ebook Week event.” said Tiffany Wong, co-founder of Aldiko Limited. “The mission of Aldiko is to bring more e-content to more readers. The collaboration between Aldiko and Read an Ebook Week a well as other participating partners will help bring new authors and readers to ebooks.”
About Aldiko Limited
Founded in 2009 in Hong Kong, Aldiko focuses on developing ebook reading software and solutions that revolutionize the way people access and consume digital publications on their mobile devices.
Our flagship product, the Aldiko Book Reader, lets users around the world: 1) Read ebooks directly on their mobile devices; 2) Browse and download ebooks from an extensive catalog of content; 3) Manage and organize their collection of downloaded content.
2009 has been a very amazing year for Aldiko. We started out with a goal to make more content available to more users. We have launched our ebook reading app for the Android platform and established a number of partnerships with publishers, ebook stores and content providers to make it possible for our users to discover, browse, purchase, download, read and organize ebooks right within the app. Our user base has reached over 200,000 within just a couple of months.
As we enter into 2010, we will continue our goal of brining more content to our users, providing an easy and convenient way for publishers, ebookstores and content providers to distribute content, as well as improving the overall user experience of the Aldiko app.
Last but not least, we want to thank Aldiko users, our partners and other friends in the publishing and mobile spaces for your great support this year. We are looking forward to continuing to serve and work with you in 2010. Wish all of you a very happy new year!
Halloween is just around the corner, are you ready for some scary time? For this special occasion and for your enjoyment, we have created a special Halloween collection on Aldiko’s online catalog. You can find such scary classics as “Dracula”, “Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde” and more. Check it out!
Happy Halloween!
