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Originally Posted by anamardoll
@CWatkinsNash, THANK YOU. You are so awesome. I mean I already knew that, but still.
Amazon owns Shelfari? WHY. It may just be me, but I hate their interface with the burning passion of a thousand tea light candles.
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Yeah, Shelfari is pretty crappy and horrible.
Just speculation BUT there's been whispers of Amazon wanting to buy out GR on some blog sites....there's also the fact that Amazon's Shelfari is hooked into their regular purchasing system whereas Goodreads was not. GR did not give Amazon any additional access to members than it already had (other than the required "buy" link listed first for all books shown on GR).
It was a good partnership for Amazon but they are getting bigger and hungrier everyday. Something has to feed the monster...