Citia Launches Free Sampler App

NEW YORK, Sept. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Citia is pleased to announce its latest iPad app: a guided tour of Kevin Kelly's eye-opening What Technology Wants. "We wanted readers everywhere to see some of the most innovative content design in publishing today," said Citia CEO Linda Holliday. "Starting today they can."

This free app, now available in the App Store, contains more than a dozen beautifully designed "reading cards." Each card is like a promotion for the idea it contains. Built from excerpts and annotations, the cards are fully shareable. On Twitter or Facebook, by email or the Web, they travel the way great ideas should: far and wide.

Readers who like what they see are one tap away from upgrading to the 200-card full Citia edition of What Technology Wants.

If your reading habits move faster than your books, you'll love Citia.

Launched this past June at the Wall Street Journal's prestigious "D" conference, Citia has earned critical praise and great reviews. "I can see Citia being very useful for non-fiction books. I'm an avid reader, but there are too many books I want to read and not enough time," wrote ReadWriteWeb's Richard MacManus. "Citia fills a need for me and no doubt many others."

About Citia Books
Citia helps important ideas travel farther, faster. Using professional writers and designers, Citia condenses popular books onto virtual index cards. Citia's card-based system frees ebooks from paginated, linear constraints.

Citia's publishing partners include Penguin, HarperCollins, and Hachette. Launch titles in 2012 include some of the most buzz-worthy books at the intersection of business and technology.

Website: http://citia.com

Praise for Citia
"Digitization has changed the book, and now, Citia is providing a new and logical way to read it. I can't wait to dive into the stacks."
—Steven Heller, professor at SVA, author, and columnist for the New York Review of Books.

"May revolutionize electronic publishing as we know it."
—John Maeda, President of RISD, Associate Director of research at MIT's Media Lab.

"Absolutely love it. I think the underlying idea is brilliant."
—Steven Pinker, Harvard professor, author of Better Angels of Our Nature.

About Semi-Linear
Semi-Linear, Inc. is a New York City-based digital media company working on better ways to connect consumers and content creators. Citia is its launch offering.

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