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Also........from the press page.......see highlighted....no where does it say Amazon owns it.
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* LibraryThing.com launched on August 29, 2005
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* Cambridge Information Group acquired a minority stake of the company in December 2008 (LibraryThing blog post)
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* LibraryThing is exploring relationships with libraries, to offer non-commercially motivated recommendations, tags, reviews, and other social data (see LibraryThing for Libraries)
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