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Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More

Amazon Picks Up Goodreads For Kindle Social and More

A few weeks ago, Amazon announced that they were going to acquire Goodreads, one of the most popular social sites on the internet for book lovers.  Goodreads has become a great place to go for sharing reviews, recommendations, ideas, and more since its debut in 2007.  While this is certain to be mutually beneficial in many ways, we have to assume that the goal here is to develop the Kindle Social experience into a real selling point for the eReader line. The Kindle has an interesting position with regard to social interaction. By its very nature it allows greater privacy …