Kevin Smokler is the co-founder/CEO of BookTour.com, an Amazon-funded startup which offers affordable software tools for authors. He is based in San Francisco, and can be found on on Twitter at @weegee.
I can think of almost 20 startups—all with funding—whose primary aim is to improve ?book discovery? online, and I?m sure there other companies that I?m not even aware of.
That?s a considerable rush of investment for book publishing, an industry usually wall-flowering at the innovation ball. The entrepreneurial momentum around ?discovery??where publishers suggest unfamiliar but useful content to a user based on that user?s previously stated interests?suggests an important energy and excitement around key aspects of the book business?s future.
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