Among the start-ups debuting in a private industry beta at next week’s BEA is former literary agent Joe Regal’s Zola Books, an ambitious ebook retailer that aims to innovate in multiple ways, aspiring to improve book discovery, share data with authors and publishers, empower book “curators” of all kinds to recommend titles (and get compensated), move forward the state of the art of how an HTML5 reader can work across multiple devices, and make “social reading” more natural and less obtrusive. A separate component, launching when Zola Books formally opens for business (which will not occur until after the DOJ […]
