VANCOUVER, British Columbia–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Legible Inc. (CSE: READ) (OTCQB: LEBGF) (FSE: D0T) (“Legible” or the “Company”) announces a major update to the Company’s proprietary AI-based curation tool, LibrarianAI, which offers conversational book discovery, enabling readers to find and buy eBooks directly on Legible’s browser-based eBookstore streaming over 2 million titles.
Major enhancements to the LibrarianAI include seamless discovery, reading, and interaction via precise, personalized recommendations. The LibrarianAI now has improved ability to comprehend complex literary queries, increasing proficiency in providing suggestions based on research topics. Readers can also now save and share LibrarianAI conversation threads via links, and create shareable literary journals, sets of book recommendations, and curriculum reading lists with links to books.
LibrarianAi is being installed throughout the Company’s products and operations, including the forthcoming Legible Unbound membership, Wander app for offline reading, audiobook catalogues, and more. Legible is championing ethical AI use that honours the rights of publishers and authors on its platform.
The Company also announces that, further to its June 6, 2023 News Release, it has closed the second tranche of its $1,500,000 non-brokered Private Placement (the “Private Placement”) of units (“Units”). The Company issued 6,808,664 Units at $0.09 per Unit for gross proceeds of $612,780 including approximately $163,550 in settlement of outstanding indebtedness. Each Unit consists of one common share (“Common Share”) and one whole Common Share purchase warrant (“Warrant”) with each Warrant entitling the holder to acquire 1 Common Share at a price of $0.12, at any time prior to 5:00 pm (Vancouver time) on the date that is one year from the closing date, provided that if the volume weighted average trading price of the Common shares is at least $0.25 per Common Share for a period of 5 consecutive trading days, the expiry date of the Warrants may be accelerated by the Company to a date that is not less than 21 days after the date that notice of such acceleration is provided to the Warrant holders by way of a press release.
This brings the total amount raised under the Private Placement to $1,371,383. Based upon this demand, and subject to regulatory approval, the Private Placement is being increased to $2 Million.
Legible expects to close the final tranche of the Private Placement in the coming weeks. The Company intends to use the proceeds for general working capital purposes including technology development, product and feature releases, marketing awareness and conversion campaigns. All securities issued in connection with the Private Placement are subject to a hold period that expires on November 14, 2023. There were finders fees paid to qualified individuals in the amount of $25,208 in cash and 280,089 in Warrants with respect to the closing of the second tranche of the Private Placement.
About Legible Inc.
Legible Inc. is a book entertainment and media company with a mission: millions of books for billions of readers, globally. Legible provides innovative eReading experiences to anyone anywhere with an internet-enabled device. Legible has developed two high-value verticals: a browser-based, mobile-first B2C eBook entertainment platform delivering a global online bookstore and reading system for the emerging web with high-growth potential called Legible.com; and a global B2B eBook conversion and production service with high revenue potential called Legible Publishing. Legible is transforming the digital publishing industry and gaining market share through innovative, 21st century publishing and global reading experiences, and embraces core values of sustainability, accessibility, and global literacy.
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