A few days ago, Odilo announced some exciting news. Odilo and the Finnish company Claned signed a collaboration agreement that will greatly benefit their customers. Claned, perhaps the least known of the companies involved in this partnership, is a Finnish firm specializing in the education sector.
Odilo's customers will receive the titles currently offered by Odilo. This represents a catalog of 1,1 million titles . Odilo will also benefit from Claned, not through monetary compensation, but by sharing services and synergies.
In addition to its foray into the educational sector, Claned offers Artificial Intelligence technology that Odilo will utilize to enhance its services . This technology is geared towards education but can also be applied to the publishing industry, proving invaluable in selecting titles. This collaboration agreement is therefore particularly interesting, as it will soon provide the few existing users of ebook lending services in Spanish libraries with a virtual librarian who can recommend suitable titles or similar books to read if they enjoy the ebook.
Claned will provide Odilo with artificial intelligence to recommend ebooks and services
In recent months, ebookstores and services like Overdrive have been incorporating artificial intelligence and chatbots to offer their customers an improved, more personalized, and less robotic experience. It seems that following the agreement between Odilo and Claned, Odilo and Spanish libraries will have access to this technology, although I'm not sure if users of these services will take advantage of it as well , or if it will simply fade into obscurity like the new ebook lending service.
In any case, we will have to wait a few days or even months to receive these recommendations, although we can always choose to go to our usual library and ask that man (or woman) who is always in the library with books, surely his recommendations help us .