Bookish Explained

Bookish, LLC.
Location:New York City, United States
Key People:Ardy Khazaei (CEO),
Chris Sim (CTO)
Url:www.bookish.com
Website Type:Content discovery,
eCommerce
Language:English
Advertising:Web banners
Launch Date:February 2013

Bookish.com is a content discovery and ecommerce website, which launched in February 2013, devoted to books. The site allows users to browse an extensive database of books and authors, add books to user-created digital "shelves", get custom book recommendations, read editorial content and purchase physical books, ebooks, and audiobooks.[1]

History

Bookish was founded in 2011 in a joint venture backed by three of the big six publishing companies – Hachette Book Group, Penguin Group (USA), and Simon & Schuster[2] – with the goal of increasing the presence of book publishers in the book-buying industry (which was becoming increasingly dominated by Amazon.com due to the increased popularity of online bookstores), as well as to expand the overall book-buying market.

The site was expected to launch in the summer of 2011, but the launch was delayed due to technical issues relating to data compilation,[3] as well as a lawsuit filed by the United States Department of Justice in 2012 against Apple Inc. and five major publishing companies regarding the pricing of ebooks.[4] The site officially launched in February 2013 with the support of sixteen additional publishing companies.[5]

Features

Acquisition

In early 2014, online ebook retailer Zola Books, attracted by the site's sophisticated “algorithmic software” that offers reading suggestions, acquired Bookish.[7]

See also

Notes and References

  1. News: Publishers Launch Online Site, Bookish.com, To Attract Readers, Sell Books . 5 February 2013 . Huffington Post.
  2. News: Milliot . Jim . NetGalley Buys Bookish.com . 27 May 2024 . PWxyz, LLC . 12 October 2016.
  3. News: Publishers Make a Plan: A ‘One Stop’ Book Site . 6 May 2011. The New York Times . Julie . Bosman.
  4. Web site: United States v. Apple, Inc., Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., Verlagsgruppe Georg Von Holtzbrinck GmbH, Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC d/b/a Macmillan, the Penguin Group, a Division of Pearson PLC, Penguin Group (USA), Inc., and Simon & Schuster, Inc..
  5. Web site: Our Partners. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130627150616/http://www.bookish.com/partners. 2013-06-27.
  6. Web site: Bookish FAQ . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130702161655/http://www.bookish.com/faq . 2013-07-02.
  7. News: Kaufman. Leslie. Online Retailer Zola Books Buys Bookish . Mar 24, 2014 . New York Times . Jan 6, 2014.