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Jodie Archer had always been puzzled by the success of The Da Vinci Code. She’d worked for Penguin UK in the mid-2000s, when Dan Brown’s thriller had become a massive hit, and knew there was no way ...

Goodreads announced yesterday that it has acquired Discovereads, a site that uses an algorithm to recommend books to people based on their preferences and on the preferences of users with similar ...

Kyle Chayka, Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, Doubleday Books, 2024 (image courtesy Doubleday Books) In Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture, journalist and writer Kyle Chayka ...