According to the Shelfari email newsletter, “Shelfari joins the Amazon.com family.”
Shelfair.com, acquired by Amazon.com on August 28, is a social networking site for book lovers. You create a virtual bookshelf and share reviews with your friends. I’m also a member of GoodReads.com, which I like for the email messages I receive of friends’ book reviews.
Both systems let users pull in your Amazon reviews, which is great and saves time. It will be interesting to see what happens now with the other virtual bookshelves using Amazon’s API (will they continue, get stronger, disappear) and what will “working hand in hand” (as claimed in the Shelfari email) actually look like.
I suppose I should go update my bookshelf in all of these places.
Is there not some way to do this in one place and have all my reviews distributed and posted to all my bookshelves? Hmmm. Must be…