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“Readers loved the idea of a regular e-mail featuring flash sales on e-books, but we soon realized that the service would work best if it featured titles from all publishers and authors.” So, in early 2012, he and Nicholas Ciarelli, who has a background in digital media, founded BookBub, a daily deal site for e-books based in Cambridge, Mass.

The social media site Bookish has been acquired by Zola Books, Publishers Weekly reported on Monday. The site went live in 2013 backed by three of the five big publishers: Hachette, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster.