Discoverability

JellyBooks Shuts Down Its eBook Discovery Service

29 June, 2017 // 0 Comments

JellyBooks has announced that it is shutting down its ebook discounting service as part of its pivot to focus on reader analytics. In March 2012, we started a service to help readers discover books. [Read More ...]

Scribd Wants You to Know About Its new Discovery Features (And That it Isn’t Dead Yet)

25 August, 2016 // 3 Comments

Voted "ebook startup most likely to close in 2016", Scribd crossed my desk again this week when they announced that they have updated Scribd published a blog post yesterday which detailed the new [Read More ...]

Alexi Wants to Help You Find Your Next Read

8 July, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Bookseller (paywall'd) reports that Alexander Kidd, formerly of Picador and formerly a literary agent, is showing off a new book discovery app called Alexi. This iPhone app is currently in beta, [Read More ...]

You Might Not Be Able to Afford Gardner Dozois’ 1,200 Title SF Library, But You Can Still Make Use of It

21 June, 2015 // 2 Comments

BoingBoing reports that Gardner Dozois has put his SF library up for sale. He's assembled the collection over the course of decades as a magazine editor and anthologist, and is hoping to sell it [Read More ...]

Do All-You-Can-Read Subscriptions Need Curation? (No and Yes)

12 May, 2015 // 7 Comments

Curator Wanted - This book owner is overwhelmed by his 20,000 title strong library and is in need of a curator. Applicants need to show previous experience at a library or bookstore. Send CV and [Read More ...]

Trajectory Picks Up Where Booklamp Left Off

29 January, 2015 // 2 Comments

Publishers Weekly has a new article up today on a ebook startup called Trajectory, which has a strikingly familiar business model. Cal Reid reports that Trajectory is developing a familiar sounding [Read More ...]

Machine-Learning Algorithm Can Rank the World’s Most Notable Authors, But Can it Identify the Most Worthwhile?

20 November, 2014 // 6 Comments

If it's possible to judge an author's notability based on their Wikipedia entry then Dr Allen Riddell of Dartmouth College has you covered. Earlier this month Riddell published a paper which laid [Read More ...]

BookBub Raises $3.8 Million in Series A Funding

2 May, 2014 // 0 Comments

2013 was the year of the ebook email blasts but it looks like BookBub has tacked a few more months on to the calendar. BookBub, a daily deal site which sent out emails about ebook sales, announced [Read More ...]

Zola Books Partners with NY Public Library, Will Supply New Book Recommendation Engine

24 March, 2014 // 0 Comments

When indie ebookstore Zola Books bought the ebook recommendation site Bookish in January, most pundits expected that the one site would be folded into the other. Few probably could have predicted [Read More ...]

Stumblary Wants to be the StumbleUpon for eBooks

17 November, 2013 // 2 Comments

Every so often I come across a new and novel way to promote books. In June I found No Names, No Jackets, a site that focused on serving up blind excerpts as a way of drawing the attention of readers, [Read More ...]

No Names, No Jackets – Finally Something New in Book Discovery

25 June, 2013 // 7 Comments

One thing I've missed in switching from paper books to ebooks is the way I used to browse bookstores. I'm one of those people who pick a random book off the shelves of the SF section and read it to [Read More ...]

Penguin Launches New Program to Get Early Copies of eBooks to Adoring Fans (AKA Thieving Pirates)

19 June, 2013 // 6 Comments

Are you eager to get an early look at your favorite author's next book? Then I have good news and bad news for you. Penguin has just announced a new program called First to Read. According to the [Read More ...]

Author Alarms Helps You Find Your Next Read

13 February, 2013 // 8 Comments

Discoverability is a hot topic in publishing circles, though not quite for the reason you might think. While readers rarely have trouble finding something to read next, publishers and authors are [Read More ...]

BookLamp has created a book genome project

16 August, 2011 // 0 Comments

I've just come across a new site called BookLamp, a project started by Novel Ideas, a quiet little 3-year-old tech company that's just beginning to draw attention. Novel Ideas have spent the last [Read More ...]