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You can read Kindle books on your phone

You can read Kindle books on your phone

Unless you live under a rock, you know that you can read Kindle books on your phone.  Well, it turns out, the husband of this book blogger, lives under a rock. The (new?) Kindle app for your phone Most of my reading takes place on the subway commuting to and from work.  I commute about 40 minutes each way between midtown Manhattan and Jersey City. In other words, I have 80 minutes of reading time…

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This algorithm kills publishers (not really though) » MobyLives

We first reported on Inkitt and its goals---namely, eliminating gatekeepers (read: human editors) from publishing, thus liberating literature from the shackles of a stodgy industry and its grumpy denizens, and replacing them with an "objective," dollar-bill-tinted-sunglasses-wearing algorithm---back in March. Now,…

Book-tech startup Inkitt has used its algorithm to predict the next big bestseller. So, will this book actually sell? And if so, are we, uh, done here? Can we all go home now?

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Moneyball for books (and other adventures in marketing) » MobyLives

Let's be real: you've probably started more books than you've finished. Is this fact a source of shame? Sure. Is it also part of a new-fangled analytic platform aiming to transform the way we market books? You bet it is. As…

Today in fledgling book-data companies: Jellybooks promises “book candy” to readers who provide the company with useful (???) information about their reading experiences.

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Book startups and why they don't work

Book startups and why they don’t work

Books and tech seem like they should be a natural combination but book startups are invariably a bit crap, to be honest. This is a great read on why:

Apple, Amazon and the uncertain future of the book startup — Tech News and Analysis

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