Many of you will know the Bookish software, a software specialized in recommending ebooks and books that exist in a catalog. This software is being very popular but it is also short-lived in the hands of entrepreneurs.
Bookish was born in 2013 at the hands of several large publishers. Later, at the end of 2014 Bookish passed into the hands of Zola Books, a company that promised a lot with this software and now it seems that lor has sold to NetGalley to have some benefit for it.
Thus, the services of NetGalley will gradually incorporate Bookish software into their services expanding them to other fields as a recommender of interviews, authors or extra materials, which are the true protagonist of Netgalley. Netgalley is a company that offers books and ebooks before their launch as well as extra material, services that the most readers appreciate and are willing to pay for it.
NetGalley offers extra material on future releases and will now recommend that extra material according to our tastes
Bookish will not be integrated directly but will be gradually, being during for a while the part that brings Zola Books together with NetGalley. For its part, Zola Books will keep the technology in its possession although it will not be able to do so under the name of Bookish but rather as the name of Zola Recommends.
It is becoming more and more important to ebook market companies have an ebook recommender, but I don't really know what happens to Bookish as its owners quickly get rid of the service. Hopefully this time NetGalley can maintain Bookish or at least integrate it into their services. In any case large companies such as Amazon or Kobo are developing their own recommendation software, something that seems to be as close to the end user as the Caliber manager or eReaders.