What have your experiences on BookLamp been so far? How have your wanderings been?
I’ve just been reading Alan Alda’s Never Have Your Dog Stuffed. I usually don’t read a lot of memoirs, let alone celebrity memoirs, and found myself liking it far more than I anticipated. That sounds like…
“How long should my book be?”
This is a question that comes up fairly often when working with early writers. It is a deceptively simple question that’s historically had very little data to help answer it.
A common and generally unhelpful answer is, “As long as it needs to be.”…
We’re constantly exploring new approaches to understanding the structure of books, and most of the data we generate through this ongoing research doesn’t appear on the website. From an academic or book nerd perspective, though, we do enjoy talking about some of our work.
One of the areas that we’ve…
I love blogs like OKTrends and Freakonomics, which use their access to unique data to ask questions about things you wouldn’t normally ask.
After all, near Valentine’s Day, who could resist real-world information about how much more likely you are to get the girl if you…
How the Book Genome Project Works:
“The Book Genome Project is an objective, computer-based analysis of the written word, applied evenly across tens of thousands of published books.”
The Book Genome Project is so fundamentally different from what most readers are…
It’s now the beginning of 2012, and it’s funny to think how much has gotten done in the 5 short months since we relaunched BookLamp.org. Things for us have been moving at increasing speed; 2012 is going to be a good year for us and the book industry, I believe.…
Hooray! BookLamp has a new team member!
I’d like to introduce you to Brooke Bloomfield, and welcome her to the BookLamp family! Brooke recently joined the team to help get the word out about BookLamp, the Book Genome Project, and our mission to change the world of publishing. Like nearly…
We rolled out a number of useful updates last week, including a series of user suggested tweaks, features, and bug fixes. Yeah! These features are intended to make using the site easier. They’re polish. But polish can make a lot of difference in how a site feels, and how easy…
Our post-launch plans involve spending the first few weeks focused on incorporating suggestions from users into the UI – make the site more usable before we worry about additional feature pushes.
One area that we think deserves some work is around browsing. In reality, BookLamp is more of a browse…
A New, Faster Engine:
At launch, we were careful to error on the side of caution and use a version of the BookLamp Engine that was optimized for a single purpose: provide book results for a preset number of titles, with no flexibility. Thankfully our servers handled the launch traffic…
The Team
Sidian Matt M. Aaron Dan Bryan 
Paul Matt J. Crow Brooke