Big Data and MOOCs Herald Change for Academic Publishers

Should We Trust Computers to Write for Us? Software exists that promises to assist you in finishing your novel, or when it comes to nonfiction, to literally write for you. Should we trust it?

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From the Archives: Bookish.com Launches, Applies Big Data to Book Discovery By incorporating trillions of calculations, Bookish.com, the new online bookstore financed by Hachette, Penguin and S&S, promises to apply Big Data to book discovery.