On the 22nd day of April, 2016, Chiki Sarkar of Penguin India and Durga Raghunath of Zomato came up with Juggernaut, a publishing company from India to "redefine reading and writing for the digital age" in India. Just 200 days old, Juggernaut has already managed to grab attention with Sunny Leone's stint as a writer of fantasy-erotic literature. Launched exclusively for Android phone users till now, it caters across all genres with almost 99 authors, offering a varied menu of serialised reads, short reads as well as miniscule reads.
- 10 Reasons why you should try out the Juggernaut app.
Let's first find out why you should try out the Juggernaut app in a brief:
1. With read-on-the-go feature, all you need to do is subscribe to Juggernaut with your mail id and integrate your Paytm account with it, for a fuss-free buying and reading. Go for a preview read. If you like it, buy it. Choose from your favourite author, genre, 'top of the charts' reads, et cetera.
2. What's more, you can buy books for free. Yes, you hear me right! And you don't need to integrate your Paytm account with your app, in case you just want to read free books. Just go to the search bar and filter 'Free', or tap a 'like' on their Facebook page or follow their Twitter account to know which book is going out for free as the 'Book of the Day' for a limited time period. Add it to your account and Happy Reading!
3. As an early bird, avail 50% off on all Juggernaut books. Isn't this reason enough to just go to your Playstore and install the app?
4. From all the books just launched to timeless classics, to books from a variety of publishers, you can have your choice!
<<Psst. Juggernaut is soon coming up with audio-books! Rejoice!>>
5. Have a book-worm brother/ sister/ friend, and want to gift them something new apart from the physical books? Here is Juggernaut for you!
All you need to do is click on the coverpage icon of the book and look for the 'Gift' icon right at the top. Tap it and Voila!
6. You might like a book or you might not. What matters is voicing out why you liked it or why you didn't. So, write a review and rate a book in Juggernaut.
If you like Juggernaut, you can even share the installation link or a quote which you liked while reading, anything about the book or the author with your friends and family over Whatsapp, Twitter, Facebook. After all, as goes the proverb, 'Sharing is Caring'.
7. Juggernaut comes with a variety of background modes for better reading. Choose between black, white and brown. By just tapping twice on your screen,you change the font size and spacing between words as you wish. Incredible, isn't it?
8. Highlight a portion you find notable or want to read again. How? Just press one of your fingers on the screen for a bit long and up pops the 'Highlight' feature. With Juggernaut, chapter navigation also comes easy. You just have to scroll your pages. But if you want to jump to a particular chapter and go on to the next, just swipe your fingers over the right corner of the screen. A small flap with chapter numbers vertically placed will magically appear.
9. Have a favourite author? Want to ask them some questions about their books? Juggernaut provides you the platform. So, what are you waiting for? Install the Juggernaut app and read and ask on-the-move.
10.Wait wait, here comes a surprise! Did I mention, if you are a budding author, you can get published with Juggernaut? Just send two chapters of your story and an overall synopsis. That's it! If they find your work promising, who knows you might just get lucky!
DRAWBACK:-
Despite all the positives, Juggernaut comes with a major drawback.
1. The main problem you face with Juggernaut is, without your mobile net, you won't be able to access your shelved books, even if you had bought it. Forget reading a single page!And if it's a 250 page book and you're a slow reader, be sure half of your mobile data would drain in just two days. Moreover, everytime you try to read it, you have to begin from the very first page of the book. You can't resume reading where you left before you went for dinner, in case you have closed the app. And oh, you can't delete a book from your shelf as of now.
And yes, though it is just tailored for Android users as of now, it is soon to be made available over IOS platform.
Till then, Happy Juggernaut-ing!
