Discussions give readers the opportunity to grapple with themes suggested by readme moderators. These discussions are about books, authors and new media.

[ 20.04.2007 ]

Now that we have clarified the details for extensively redesigning readme.cc’s website and programming a new application, we are looking forward to relaunching readme.cc in a new form and ten languages in August 2007. The new website will include many new tools as well as another practical and valuable feature: every book tip will link users to sites where they can borrow and/or buy the book, or to an electronic full text version and pages about the author.

A broad media partnership with Volltext, a magazine for contemporary literature, has also made these innovations possible. readme.cc hopes to close the gap between virtual exchange, the haptic experience of holding a book in one’s hands and reality for authors.

In this context readme.cc will also launch a new forum, as Beat Mazenauer announced earlier this year. In cooperation with the European Writers' Congress (EWC), the umbrella organisation of European authors’ associations, basic questions about copyright and authorship in the digital realm will be debated. Discussions of this kind are part of the European Authors’ Rights Awareness Campaign.

One technical innovation is already available – you can now upload your photos onto the website per mobile phone. Photograph yourself and your book with your mobile phone and send your picture via e-mail or MMS message to: upload@readme.cc