Bookshout

Bookshout was founded by Jason Illian, Rick Chatham, and Joshua Stone in 2010 as a social media app.

BookShout’s initial business model was about facilitating bulk eBook distribution and providing publishers with customizable direct-to-consumer digital storefronts.^[3][4]

BookShout’s business services partnered with corporations like; the Hearst Corporation, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, Cheerios,^[5] T-Mobile,^[6] CareerBuilder, Cisco, The Wall Street Journal,^[7] Salesforce, Google, Deloitte and others to aide in the marketing and promotion of products and books. BookShout's services also included onboarding, education and training of employees through the use of eBooks.^{[citation needed]}

The company was the creator of a proprietary reading app that gave users the ability to interact with friends directly in the app for a unique social reading experience. BookShout had a native eReader applications on Android and iOS and could be accessed directly on the web. There were more than 2 million users on the BookShout reading platform.^{[citation needed]}

In 2020, BookShout shut down and its apps were removed from the app stores.