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Why the Failure of Books on Board Should Worry Authors

Joanna Cabot — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:00:35 +0000

In today’s Morning Links was a great essay from Michael Kozlowski on the ‘death’ of the indie e-bookstore. Books on Board was killed by the agency pricing model, and a failure to innovate and provide better customer experiences such as mobile browsing and more refined search algorithms, Kozlowski alleges. His conclusion, in particular, jumped out at [...]

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Check out Book Bub, a great book recommending service

Joanna Cabot — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 18:47:49 +0000

On the advice of a TeleRead commenter, I’ve spent the last two weeks trying out a book recommending service called Book Bub. So far, I’m enjoying it. Book Bub’s premise is simple: When you register (it’s free), you select from an offering of genres that interest you, and every day, Book Bub sends you an [...]

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Feeling Bookish: CEO Ardy Khazaei on the real aims—and real benefits—of the publisher joint venture

Brian Howard — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 20:45:18 +0000

While it’s odd to think of an organization backed by the Penguin, Hachette and Simon & Schuster as a startup, Bookish, the new book-recommendation and -discovery site is essentially that. After two years in development under three CEOs, Bookish is now a reality, a place where users can get recommendations—based on titles or groups of titles [...]

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Meet WebBytez, a new method of e-book discovery

Juli Monroe — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 17:45:59 +0000

E-book discovery by readers has been much in the news lately, and it’s definitely an issue for authors, especially those who are self-published. While readers continue to find their next great book in online stores, some still browse brick and mortar bookstores. Wouldn’t it be nice if they could find and buy e-books in a [...]

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Weekend Reading Roundup — Is book discovery only a problem for publishers?

Dan Eldridge — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 14:14:13 +0000

Here’s the problem with publishers’ book discovery problem (Paid Content) Why Stephen King was wrong to publish ‘Guns’ as a Kindle Single (NY Daily News) Amazon to Investigate Claims of Worker Intimidation at German Centers (New York Times) Publishing is tough these days — unless you’re in nautical almanacs, apparently (The Guardian) Kindle Daily Deals: ‘Beautiful Creatures’ books [...]

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Bookish Impressions

Juli Monroe — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 14:30:33 +0000

Bookish has launched with much fanfare. Some good. Some bad. Nate over at The Digital Reader had an amusing look at their terms of service. DBW has three reasons they will succeed and three reasons they will fail. Hedging their bets much? So I decided to try using the site and assess it from a usability [...]

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A conversation with Amanda Close about BookScout, Random House’s new discoverability app

Aggregated Content — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 18:00:32 +0000

By Brian Howard Last week, following a soft-launch the week prior, Random House marched out BookScout, a Facebook app designed to link readers with books they’ll like but might not have discovered on their own. The recommendation engine draws on a user’s “likes”—both on one’s Facebook timeline and then directly through the app. Intriguingly, BookScout [...]

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Barnes & Noble’s two new tablets want to help you find your next book

a TeleRead Contributor — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 03:27:18 +0000

Barnes & Noble’s new Nook HD tablets, priced starting at $199, aim to stand out from the pack with reader-centric features and enhanced reading experiences for magazines and catalogs. The company’s goal is to drive book discovery and purchasing through the tablets in new ways. Barrnes & Noble’s two new Android Wi-Fi tablets, the 7-inch [...]

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Are you drowning in e-books? Here’s a solution.

Dan Eldridge — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 21:04:52 +0000

Those of you who work professionally in the publishing biz have probably been reading, hearing and talking about the art and science of ‘e-book discovery’ for years now; it’s been a slowing growing industry trend for as long as I can remember. But unless I’ve suddenly been stricken with a nasty case of Baader-Meinhof Syndrome, the so-called [...]

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Small Demons builds concordance to aid book discovery

Chris Meadows — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:17:17 +0000

I ran across another one of those guest posts on Publishing Perspectives where the founder of a publishing-related business is invited to talk about the idea behind that business. This one seems to involve a method for enabling discovery of new books in the age of the e-book. Small Demons, explains CEO Valla Vakili, was [...]

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Amazon settles Discovery patent lawsuit

Chris Meadows — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:52:49 +0000

Amazon has settled a 2009 patent lawsuit from Discovery, the company behind the Discovery Channel, the Military Channel, and others, PaidContent reports. (We mentioned the lawsuit here and here.) The patent, filed for in 1999 and granted in 2007, had to do with e-book copy protection and secure distribution. Although Discovery does not itself have [...]

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Why every publisher needs to focus on metadata

Chris Walters — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:30:26 +0000

Edward Nawotka has a new article at Publishing Perspectives that answers some common questions about metadata in digital books, and I thought he made a particularly good point regarding where it belongs in a publishing workflow: Q: Isn’t metadata just something the digital departments of publishers need to worry about? A: Simply put, it needs [...]

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