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...
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Category: Discoverability
Scribd Wants You to Know About Its new Discovery Features (And That it Isn’t Dead Yet)
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...
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Alexi Wants to Help You Find Your Next Read
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...
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You Might Not Be Able to Afford Gardner Dozois’ 1,200 Title SF Library, But You Can Still Make Use of It
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...
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Do All-You-Can-Read Subscriptions Need Curation? (No and Yes)
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...
Continue readingTrajectory Picks Up Where Booklamp Left Off
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...
Continue readingMachine-Learning Algorithm Can Rank the World’s Most Notable Authors, But Can it Identify the Most Worthwhile?
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...
Continue readingBookBub Raises $3.8 Million in Series A Funding
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...
Continue readingZola Books Partners with NY Public Library, Will Supply New Book Recommendation Engine
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...
Continue readingStumblary Wants to be the StumbleUpon for eBooks
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...
Continue readingNo Names, No Jackets – Finally Something New in Book Discovery
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...
Continue readingPenguin Launches New Program to Get Early Copies of eBooks to Adoring Fans (AKA Thieving Pirates)
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...
Continue readingAuthor Alarms Helps You Find Your Next Read
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...
Continue readingBookLamp has created a book genome project
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...
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