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  178 readers UK-based publisher Faber & Faber has signed on with new book discovery start-up Jellybooks to make its titles available for the service, which allows users to browse titles, read the first 10% of a book, share that excerpt with friends, and sign up for sale alerts. Buy buttons at the end of the excerpts are

• Faber & Faber to Make Excerpts Available on New Discovery Platform Jellybooks

  167 readers UK-based publisher Faber & Faber has signed on with new book discovery start-up Jellybooks to make its titles available for the service, which allows users to browse titles, read the first 10% of a book, share that excerpt with friends, and sign up for sale alerts. Buy buttons at the end of the excerpts are

• Discovery Start-up Jellybooks to Launch Kindle and Readmill Integration

  300 readers UK-based book-discovery start-up Jellybooks, which allows readers to browse, sample and share of e-books with each other, will be releasing new functionality that will enable users to send samples of books to the Kindle and Readmill platforms. For publishers interested in partnering with the start-up, the ability to send books to Kindle, the most popular e-reading

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  First Five Things Amazon Should Do With Goodreads

  202 readersNow that Amazon has its hands on Goodreads, what will the world’s largest bookseller do with it, the world’s largest book-focused social media site?   The obvious first thing that Amazon will likely tackle is integrating the Goodreads experience into Kindle and the Kindle experience more fully into Goodreads. The very first step, writes DBW blogger and

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  Startups Bilbary, Jellybooks take aim at new ways of buying and selling e-books

  780 readersPaidContent has a piece looking at two new startups that are trying to revolutionize the process of buying e-books. One of these, Bilbary, was founded by former Waterstones managing director Tim Coates, and aims to help publishers sell e-books directly to readers. It has almost 350,000 non-agency publisher e-books, and plans to add about 100,000

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  Artificial Intelligence the Future of Book Discovery?

  842 readers The main ways readers discover books today are generally echo chambers: Other people who bought this also bought that; other people who liked this also like that; best-seller lists; recommendations from friends. All of these methods have the effect of the same popular, top-selling books being recommended repeatedly. A new piece of software takes aim at this

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  eBook Sales To Grow To $2.8 Billion In 2015

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• How the Economics of Ebook Subscription Services Work

  933 readers I must say I was quite surprised when I read Andrew Rhomberg’s article at Digital Book World talking about the economics of a subscription service for ebooks. I hold Andrew in high esteem and we’ve had the chance to spend some time discussing about publishing and startups in different cities around Europe. In fact, I

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  Flat World Knowledge’s Disruptive Business Model: Q&A with Co-Founder Eric Frank, Part 2

  4714 readers By Yvette M. Chin, Editor, Digital Book World In the first half of this interview, President and Co-Founder Eric Frank of Flat World Knowledge, an open textbook publisher in the higher ed market, introduced us to the unique way his organization does business. In this second half, we drill down to more specifics in Flat World Knowledge’s

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  Stories Can Lead to More Stories

  1667 readersBy Amanda DeMarco Small Demons CEO Valla Vakili speaks at the StoryDrive Frankfurt conference There’s book discovery that’s driven by your social network, and book discovery that’s driven by recommendation (“People who bought this also bought that”), but what about story-driven discovery? Los Angeles-based startup Small Demons searches books for references (not just to other books, but to