Comments on: Bookish.com launches http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/ Fun and information about the Kindle and the world of e-books Fri, 28 Nov 2014 01:49:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Does Amazon need DRM? | I Love My Kindle http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-46809 Tue, 07 May 2013 15:47:24 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-46809 […] I wouldn’t see publisher B’s books. The publishers are trying to address that with Bookish.com. Bookish, though, isn’t going to show me independently publisher books. It’s also not […]

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By: Paging Dr. Page: your Amazon Author Central page http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42680 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 14:37:19 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42680 […] Bookish.com launches (three traditional publishers and others create their own answer to Amazon) […]

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By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42596 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 02:04:07 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42596 Thanks for writing, kmorandi!

If you click or tap Recommendations at the top of the page, it will take you here:

http://www.bookish.com/recommendations

You are right, though, it could be clearer.

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By: kmorandi http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42594 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:52:42 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42594 Went and checked it out, but their search is way frustrating. I couldn’t even find books I knew they had! And I never did figure out how to get recommendations. They’ll have to be a lot slicker than that to get me to even think about using them.

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By: becca http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42532 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 18:33:03 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42532 i may be in the minority, but social reading networks don’t interest me in the slightest.

I went to the Bookish site, and tried to find other books like Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore, and it couldn’t even find that book. bah.

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By: Edward Boyhan http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42528 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:34:13 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42528 Bufo, if you go to the link I provided (the author’s page), there is in fact an html version, but just below that on the page is a link to the “engines of creation 2.0″, which is all of the first version from 1986 plus some more recent papers and additions. This link will take you to:

http://www.wowio.com/users/product.asp?BookId=503

which has a download pdf button on it for the v2.0 book which is the version I looked at last night..

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By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42524 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 13:42:13 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42524 Thanks for writing, Edward!

I’m only seeing an HTML presentation of it on the author’s website (rather than a downloadble pdf), and I’m hesitant to get a pdf from another source without being sure that it is not infringing.

I hold your recommendation of it in high esteem, so I’ll probably investigate further. It could be that those pdfs are authorized, but I may have to contact the author to find out.

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By: Edward Boyhan http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42508 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 04:16:03 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42508 “The Engines of Creation” is perhaps one of the most significant books of the latter part of the 20th century.

It’s unfortunate that it’s not available on the kindle from Amazon….well I checked through Google, and a PDF version is available from what looks like the author’s web site:

http://e-drexler.com/p/06/00/EOC_Cover.html

Best: it appears to be free — this PDF version is also available from numerous other web sites. PDF’s are nicely readable on KF’s

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By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42507 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:04:56 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42507 Thanks for writing, Ed!

Yep…the tradpubs (traditional publishers) are jumping into the pool with both feet. When we have a huge market disruption, that benefits the little guys for a while, because the big ones react more slowly. However, we are talking about companies that have been around for more than a century in some cases…so they’ve had to figure out how to survive and do well in some pretty big previous disruptions.

I do expect Bookish will get better as more data becomes available…not just more books in the database, but I’m sure it will look at which books people click in the recommendations, and use that to improve the recommendations for later users.

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By: Bufo Calvin http://ilmk.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/bookish-com-launches/#comment-42506 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 02:02:27 +0000 http://ilmk.wordpress.com/?p=10428#comment-42506 Thanks for writing, Harold!

Well, there really isn’t much graphical presentation of statistical data in The Transparent Society…it deals more with the impact on individuals.

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