Bookish, the Web site built by top publishers to provide information on their books and authors in a literary magazine-like format, opened for business Monday night. Although the site received financing from just three houses – Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group – it will include books by 16 other publishers including Random House and Scholastic.Meant primarily as a destination for readers, visitors can also purchase books on the site directly from the publishers through bookish.com or other retailers if they’d like. Ardy Khazaei, Bookish’s chief executive, said this will be a better way for people to discover new books, because recommendations from friends are not necessarily the best way to find a match for a reader’s tastes. He added that friends and relatives “won’t be able to know about as many relevant books as our tool can.”
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
Bookish, New Web Site
http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/bookish-new-web-site-provides-information-on-books-and-authors/?ref=media
Bookish, the Web site built by top publishers to provide information on their books and authors in a literary magazine-like format, opened for business Monday night. Although the site received financing from just three houses – Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group – it will include books by 16 other publishers including Random House and Scholastic.Meant primarily as a destination for readers, visitors can also purchase books on the site directly from the publishers through bookish.com or other retailers if they’d like. Ardy Khazaei, Bookish’s chief executive, said this will be a better way for people to discover new books, because recommendations from friends are not necessarily the best way to find a match for a reader’s tastes. He added that friends and relatives “won’t be able to know about as many relevant books as our tool can.”
Bookish, the Web site built by top publishers to provide information on their books and authors in a literary magazine-like format, opened for business Monday night. Although the site received financing from just three houses – Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group – it will include books by 16 other publishers including Random House and Scholastic.Meant primarily as a destination for readers, visitors can also purchase books on the site directly from the publishers through bookish.com or other retailers if they’d like. Ardy Khazaei, Bookish’s chief executive, said this will be a better way for people to discover new books, because recommendations from friends are not necessarily the best way to find a match for a reader’s tastes. He added that friends and relatives “won’t be able to know about as many relevant books as our tool can.”
