DPS2024 - 10 - Social Reading with Immer - Niels ’t Hooft

To promote reading with young adults in The Netherlands, reading tech startup Immer collaborated with public broadcaster VPRO to implement digital social reading in a new way. In this session, Immer’s Niels ’t Hooft will present the approach and first results of the Club Lees app.
A long-time entrepreneur and writer of both novels and videogames, Niels ’t Hooft (1980) is the co-founder and CEO of Immer Systems BV, where he leads a team of 7. He lives and works in Utrecht, The Netherlands. Immer won the ContentShift Startup of the Year Award 2022 (DE) and the Renew the Book Innovation Award 2021 (NL), and was a finalist of the Futurebook Startup of the Year Award 2023 (UK). Immer recently shipped the first version of the Immer Reading System, which helps any digital platform to offer the world’s best reading experience.
Immer app: immer.app/
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We'd like to thank again our event sponsors: The Readium Foundation, La Sofia, Le CFC, Hachette Livre, Fondazione LIA / Aldus UP project, Eden Livres, De Marque, The Dorina Nowill Foundation for the blind