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JellyBooks Shuts Down Its eBook Discovery Service

29 June, 201729 June, 2017DiscoverabilityLeave a comment

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...

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

25 August, 201625 August, 2016Discoverability, Streaming eBooks3 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...

Alexi Wants to Help You Find Your Next Read

8 July, 201516 November, 2019Discoverability, e-Reading SoftwareLeave a comment

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...

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

21 June, 201512 May, 2017Discoverability2 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,...

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

12 May, 20152 September, 2015Discoverability, Streaming eBooks, Subscriptions7 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...

Trajectory Picks Up Where Booklamp Left Off

29 January, 201512 May, 2017Discoverability2 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...

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

20 November, 201411 May, 2017Digitization, Discoverability6 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...

BookBub Raises $3.8 Million in Series A Funding

2 May, 20142 May, 2014DiscoverabilityLeave a comment

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...

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

24 March, 201411 May, 2017Discoverability, eBookstoreLeave a comment

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....

Stumblary Wants to be the StumbleUpon for eBooks

17 November, 201311 May, 2017Discoverability3 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...

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

25 June, 201325 June, 2013Discoverability7 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...

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

19 June, 201319 June, 2013Discoverability6 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...

Author Alarms Helps You Find Your Next Read

13 February, 201313 February, 2013Discoverability8 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...

BookLamp has created a book genome project

16 August, 201110 May, 2017DiscoverabilityLeave a comment

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...