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xigxag - the startup aiming to revolutionise reading.
by: Startacus Admin ~ 18th January 2022
xigxag is a Cornwall-based startup that has created an innovative audiobook app offering great prices, no subscriptions and exclusive access to their listen-and-read x-book®.
Audiobooks have become more and more popular in our society that never takes the time to slow down enough for something like reading. Not that audiobooks have to take the place of reading any more than watching TV or l...
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Startup of the Week - Whatbook
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th December 2020
Our latest startup of the week is Whatbook, “a book discovery and social network app for readers, by readers”.
We all know the benefits of reading - from helping us to learn more through to the escapism that it offers. And studies have shown that it can be hugely beneficial for both our physical and mental health. So, whether you’re already an avid reader or one of your New Ye...
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Noisy Book - empowering young readers and storytellers
by: Startacus Admin ~ 17th November 2019The lowdown on Noisy Book, the app that will let you turn your children's books and imaginations into an immersive, magical experience...
Most parents understand the joy of reading a book with their children, whether they do all the voices or not. The gradual move from you reading to them, to them reading to you is an important part of both the child’s development and of your bonding with t...
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Turn on the Subtitles
by: Startacus Admin ~ 14th August 2018"If you want to teach a nation to read: Just turn on the subtitles". This simple advice might just help make kids become proficient readers...
Oli Barrett MBE, amongst many other things, co-founded StartUp Britain, Tenner, and social innovation agency Cospa. Tenner, for example (now run by Young Enterprise), has challenged over 250,000 school pupils to see what they can achieve in one month,...
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Bookaxe chats to Startacus
by: Startacus Admin ~ 1st August 2018Bookaxe was founded by an internationally published author and a data whizz. Focused on matching readers to their perfect books, we previously featured Bookaxe on Startacus earlier this year, so were delighted to catch up with co-founder Lucy Cruickshanks at Digital DNA '18, where Bookaxe were pitching.
Bookaxe is a book discovery platform that uses machine learning techniques to better...
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Bookaxe makes book discovery easy with machine learning
by: Startacus Admin ~ 27th April 2018In the US and UK alone, an estimated 500,000 books were published last year. Yet for readers, finding one you truly love is incredibly hard. Step forward Bookaxe, a book discovery platform that solves serious pain points for both readers and traditional publishers. How? Machine learning techniques of course. Read on (sorry) for all the details...
In the bookselling industry, publishers and bookse...
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Startup of the Week - Illumicrate
by: Startacus Admin ~ 12th July 2017Bibliophiles take note - this one’s for you.
Why?
Because reading and the joy that it brings is at the very core of our latest Startup of the Week.
Illumicrate is a subscription service for book lovers.
Here’s how it works.
Subscribe to the service and every quarter you will receive a crate filled with all sorts of book goodies. There’ll be at least one newly released book (...
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