Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book
Goodreads competes with other book-focused social networks we’ve covered, including Library Thing (partially acquired last year by ABEbooks), Amazon-backed Shelfari and others.
Like the competing services, adding books to your virtual collection entails a search and a click – most of the meta data is pulled in via an Amazon web service. Goodreads founder Otis Chandler says the company is focused on the social network aspect of the service, letting users introduce their friends to good books through recommendations, currently reading lists, etc. It certainly seems to be working – the company is right in the mix traffic-wise with Shelfari and Library Thing, and growing quickly.
Ten million books have been added to the site by users, Chandler says. That’s about half of what Library Thing has to date (with a big head start).