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Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks
- jamesbritt 18y agoI'm a fan of LibraryThing. How does Shelfari compare?
- KevBurnsJr 18y agoLibraryThing says : http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=44126 http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.php?topic=44126 "As many of you know, Shelfari is a LibraryThing clone. They aim at a slightly different segement of the market - they're "younger," somewhat less intellectual, less featureful, use only Amazon data, and focus on friend-to-friend connections and the aesthetics of the "shelf" rather than book-based connections and cataloging." "... I have, quite frankly, the greatest contempt for them, and for what book-based social networking will become if they beat out LibraryThing ... Picture a boot stomping on a human face forever."
- jamesbritt 18y agoThanks, that's a great link. I especially liked this: "Picture a boot stomping on a human face forever. Well, okay, not that. But picture the book social network wars ending with a site created by music people who probably wouldn't get that allusion, ..." Seems to sum up the difference between the two. One is for book lovers; the other is for people who buy books.
- jyothi 18y agoHave you folks used iRead on facebook/orkut/hi5/bebo ? iRead has the highest user base ~2M across all social networks and the independent site. It has lot more features than library things too. They recently got acquired by Lulu and rebranded themselves as http://weread.com http://weread.com . check it out.
- tpiep 18y agoI continue to be blown away by Readernaut: http://readernaut.com http://readernaut.com