For publishers and authors, book discovery is a continual challenge. Sites like Amazon, Goodreads, and Smashwords contain hundreds of millions of books, which makes the task of connecting a reader to the right read difficult amid the clutter. This week, Barnes and Noble released a new app called Browsery that seeks to solve that problem by creating a community that offers recommendations to one another.
It’s not a new concept; for example, Goodreads lets you track your progress in your current read, while also showing what your friends are reading and recommending. There’s also Litsy (which was recently acquired by another cataloging site LibraryThing), that lets readers share images of what they’re reading along with short reviews....
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