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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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Ownshelf Helps Readers Share Their Digital Libraries With Friends

Aggregated Content — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 04:45:42 +0000

Rick Marazzani believes readers should be able to share and discover e-books through their friends’ personal libraries just like they do with print books. That’s why he built Ownshelf. Ownshelf, a free web service that launched in beta Friday, provides readers with a cloud storage platform to share e-books with friends and family. Think of [...]

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SmallDemons Releases “Collections” Feature for Storyverse

Aggregated Content — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:27:09 +0000

By Colleen T. Reese Today, SmallDemons, a book discovery and literary culture app, quietly released what can ultimately only be described as the Pinterest for books. We’ve written about SmallDemons before, but for those of you unfamiliar with the application, SmallDemons aggregates cultural references made in books and uses them to aid in book discovery. Users [...]

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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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