Any plans to go beyond social book reading and helping self-publish,printing, selling?

Thanks,
Sandip

Thanks for your message. Yes I totally agree that solving the de-duplication of books is an important problem for us to solve. We are working on that now but as you correctly pointed out it is a hard one to solve. We are looking at many algorithmic solutions to the problems and then also a user aided solution. We should have an update for you and others on this soon.

One problem that I have found that will become more important now is the fact that books are duplicated on your database. I don’t really care which edition of a book I have read. What I care about is whether my friends have read the same book. What would be really great is if you can link all entries of what is essentially the same book. That way I can see all the reviews, I can see how many people have really read the book and, most importantly, I can see which books are common between my friends and I.

I realise that this is a pretty major job and would require some additional features related to adding and selecting books (particularly if you retain the ability to reference a particular edition - important to some), but it is possible and I think would be an important enhancement.