I let an algorithm choose every book I read for three months and it exposed my blind spots

An algorithm chose every book for three months. It did not recommend badly. It recommended narrowly. The blind spots it ...
Bustle

Could This Be The Next Big Thing In Publishing?

The way that books are selected for publication has remained basically the same for years: editors read over a manuscript and decide if they think it has potential and is a good fit. But that could be ...
The Bookseller

Books on BookTok: how can readers avoid getting stuck with genre oversaturation?

This week, creators reflected on whether the TikTok algorithm prioritises certain books and genres on the platform, resulting ...
The Atlantic

Computer Algorithm Can Tell If Your Lousy Book Will Sell or Not

To the horror of readers everywhere, computer scientists have developed an algorithm they say can predict the commercial viability of a book, with an 84 percent success rate, based solely on the style ...
Gizmodo

Algorithm Predicts Dystopian Book About Technology Should Be Massive Bestseller

An algorithm that predicts bestselling books has awarded a perfect score to The Circle by Dave Eggers, a book that just so happens to be a dystopian satire of life in Silicon Valley. Hmm. Said ...
ZDNet

Those silly algorithms: Book about flies goes for $23.7 million on Amazon

What happens when two algorithms get into a deathmatch over book pricing? You get a book about fly developmental biology that will run you more than $23 million plus shipping of course. Michael Eisen, ...