Bookvibe book discovery platform to analyse tweets, Facebook posts

23 July 2013 Books+Publishing

Californian digital start-up Parakweet is developing a book discovery platform called Bookvibe, which analyses tweets and public Facebook posts to generate book recommendations, reports DigitalBookWorld. For consumers, the free service generates customised lists of recommendations from the users’ social networks, displaying the information online and in a weekly email. Publishers and authors will be able to pay to use Bookvibe to gather data from social media on which books people are talking about and what they are saying. Additional features planned for Bookvibe include the ability for users to make a list of books to read and an alert system for when books go on sale. Bookvibe targets readers who use Twitter or Facebook for book recommendations, but don’t use Goodreads. The Bookvibe online service is not yet open to general users, but individuals can sign up for the weekly email service here.

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