2. So much information…find RELEVANCE
Retail Technology
– Bookshout
– Zola Books
Data
– Altmetrics / Semantic web
Theory
– Ingram
– Metadata / Linked data
3. Bookshout….the nerve to go up against the big guys
Do not piss off this guy!
– iTunes (inheritance argument)
– Bookshout allows for “import”
of your legal titles
– Discovery aided by the social
aspect of Bookclubs
– True BYOD (iOS, iBooks
coming soon)
5. Zola Books…exploration not “search”
Recommendation / curation
– Shop front
– All Publishers can connect
to Customer to serve related
content
Social Connection to Authors
– Real time sharing
Retail model
– Bookstore partners get 60%
6. Altmetrics
Eugene Garfield,
the gran-daddy
Metadata
Semantic web
–Insight-driven decision
making
7. Insight
Next level of extraction
Analysis to operational-isation
More targetted behavior influence
14. Semantic web / Little Demons and the “StoryVerse”
• Take, for example, Las Vegas. The book that instantly springs to mind,
“Fear and Loathing…” But the city has been featured in hundreds of titles from Don
DeLillo’s “Underworld” , David Foster Wallace’s “Infinite Jest” to Chuck Klosterman’s
“Sex, Drugs, And Cocoa Puffs” & David Carr’s “The Night of the Gun”.
• Valla Vakili thinks it interesting that Cocoa Puffs connected Klosterman to Jodi
Picoult’s “Handle With Care”.
“I didn’t care when you ate all the Cocoa Puffs so that I had to have Frosted Mini-
Wheats as a snack after school. All that mattered was that at 4:30 p.m. I was getting
my braces off, after thirty-four months, two weeks, and six days.”
• See? (And don’t get me started on the role Frosted Mini-Wheats play in Stephen
King’s “Duma Key”.)
So much information, so many theories and business models on how to develop the book publishing and retailing industry. New technologies and devices are often unveiled here. All is being driven by increasing Customer knowledge being gained by data collection on Customer behavior etc.
Great deal of overlap but end result is a greater understanding of Customers / readers and thus gaining the potential of real-time insight in book supply.
We collect content in our lives, why cannot not be legally ceded, transferred etc…fine print. Clever guys charging you a lotta money for something you will never own (evil laugh) really unfair.
In a conversation with TechNewsdaily, BookShout! CEO Jason Illian compared the current closed e-book ecosystems to having to buy new music every time you get a new stereo.
Illian said publishers are behind his efforts to unlock e-books. He believes his system is legal and will stand up to any challenges from Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble.
Pagerank from citations/indexing
Sergei Brin / Larry Page
Eugene Garfield (information salesman, librarian, bio…Army National Medical Library days)
Egyptian women wearing anonymous…
Anonymous on Wall St. 1% owns the world and the rest of us are serfs.
One leads to another…
And so when V for Vendetta was out, it led to a serious shortage of …..masks