Bookaxe makes book discovery easy with machine learning
by Startacus Admin
In the US and UK alone, an estimated 500,000 books were published last year. Yet for readers, finding one you truly 
love is incredibly hard.
Step forward Bookaxe, a book discovery platform that solves serious pain points for both readers and traditional publishers. How? Machine learning techniques of course. Read on (sorry) for all the details...
What's more, readers don't know whether to trust reviews. For example, one bestselling book of recent years has 1.7million star ratings on Amazon-owned Goodreads, but a pretty even spread between how many stars each reviewer gives. How are readers to possibly decipher which camp they'd fall into? Step forward Bookaxe, a book discovery platform that aims to solve these serious pain points for both readers and traditional publishers.
Bookaxe uses machine learning techniques to better align books to readers based on the content of the novel itself, rather than confusing marketing hype, whilst also matching readers to readers, meaning that Bookaxe users see the opinions of people with similar tastes first. This allows them to find books they'll love, quicker and easier.
Amazon hold some information on this but they don't share it. Publishers are largely left in the dark. Bookaxe makes this information available to them for the first time.
Additionally - and crucially - the metadata we collect about what our readers actually like and dislike about the books themselves is completely unique. Bookaxe don't just say who likes or dislikes a book, they give the reasons why. From the pace of the plot, to it's levels of explicitness, to the style of it's language, Bookaxe aims to help publishers understand what it is about their books that get readers excited or turn them away.
We reckon Bookaxe is a startup that's one to watch / read more about/ keep your eye on...
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Perlego - The EdTech startup which is on a mission to make textbooks more affordable.
Mrs Wordsmith - The EdTech startup for kids that's making learning new words a doddle.
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Published on: 27th April 2018
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