By Nick Ruffilo, CIO/CTO BookSwim.com I’ve seen quite a bit of discussion around metadata and its power, but numbers that confirm its usefulness are rarely announced. Six months ago, BookSwim.com rebuilt its search and recommendation engine. The results from the upgrades were mind-boggling. BookSwim is an online subscription book rental club. Members can rent unlimited titles from our catalog by …
Take Advantage of Our Early Bird Rate for Digital Book World
By Erin L. Cox The second annual Digital Book World has set its dates for January 24-26, 2011 in New York City at The Sheraton Hotel & Towers. This year’s conference brings programming that will offer actionable strategies for success in the digital age for all areas of publishing–editorial, marketing, business development, digital, designers, production, and sales. From new research …
Don’t Just Sell to Me
By Nick Ruffilo Being a metadata evangelist, I often say the same thing over and over to a similar group of people who all seem to get what I’m saying but ultimately never change. I am not alone in this, but we evangelists continue preaching because we know that we have good information and our ideas can benefit publishers. Most …
The iPhone Interviews: Michael Bhaskar of Profile Books
Michael Bhaskar discusses his company’s digital publishing programs, the importance of metadata, the wiliness of agent Andrew Wylie, and what is coming next for the world of books and media.
Your Book as a Database (Part 3)
By Chris Kubica Thursday, in Your Book as a Database: A Primer, we laid the foundation for thinking of books as relational databases. Yesterday in Part 2 I demonstrated how you can rate a single book to the larger ecosystem of books and reading. Today, I explain how to put this all together and make it work for you. Taking …