iRead is on My Space now! Woo hooo…

MySpace recently opened their platform for application providers and in a limited release opened it for their users to use the applications. This is an good first step toward the promise of open social compliance from the large social networks.

iRead is excited to be part of My Space. Thanks to some fantastic support for My Space team, we were able to launch iRead on My Space on day one. So if you hang out on My Space you can now show off your favorite books on your profile. You can see what your friends are reading. And discover people who have similar reading tastes as you!

Get iRead on My Space.

Last week we launched the countdown to 10 millionth book on our users’ bookshelves. We hit that milestone on the morning of October 29th. As promised, we raffled off 10 $100 gift certificates from Barnes & Noble and announced the names of the winners. You can view the list of the lucky winners and congratulate them here.

iReaders‘ bookshelves will soon have more than 10 million books! When we started, about four months ago, we had no idea that we will reach the 10 million books milestone so soon. We are thrilled and we want to thank you for making iRead the most vibrant book community! To celebrate, we are giving away 10 $100 gift certificates.

So how does this work?

When we reach the 10 millionth book, we will pick 10 lucky iReaders among the ones who have 10 or more books on their shelf and 10 or more friends on iRead. The lucky iReaders will get $100 Barnes and Noble.com gift certificate to buy more books! See below for more details.

Eligibility

• Be a facebook user and have iRead installed on your profile.
• Don’t be lazy. Add books to your profile. You should add atleast 10 books to your iRead shelf.
• Don’t be alone. You should have at least 10 friends on iRead. iRead is more fun with friends!
• Start adding books now so that we can reach the 10 millionth book sooner.

Promotion

• 10 lucky iReaders (a raffle among eligible winners) will win $100 Barnes and Noble.com gift certificates.

How to Enter

• Any Facebook/iRead user who has atleast 10 books on their shelf and 10 Friends on iRead at the time when we hit 10M book adds will automatically be entered into the promotion.
• When we get the 10 millionth book added, we will do a raffle among all eligible iReaders to select 10 winners.

Notification

• We will notify the winner via the send message feature on Facebook.

Other Fine Print

• Barnes and Noble.com gift certificate fine print applies. Click here to see the terms and conditions.
• iRead terms and conditions

  This promotion is valid starting October 17, 2007 and will continue until iRead get 10 million book additions. iRead will issue electronic $100 gift certificates for Barnesandnoble.com to the 10 qualified promotion registrants. To qualify, you must follow the promotion rules. iRead will issue the gift certificates within 30 days of the end of the promotion. If you are one of the first 10 qualified entrants, you will receive a facebook email from iRead with details on how to redeem the gift certificates. iRead reserves the right to cancel this promotion at any time, and to cancel issuance of the gift to certain individuals due to suspected fraud. If you have any questions, please contact ireadsupport@socialwizards.com.

….and shows no signs of slowing down. It has barely been 100 days since we launched our first Facebook application, Books iRead. But we are already the largest online book community in the world with more than 400 thousand users. We’d like to thank the fantastic facebook community for supporting and encouraging us. That encouragement has led us to build on our initial success and create a feature-rich application at an incredible pace. iRead has book clubs, personal book recommendations, fun quizzes, iReaders like you, and lots more innovative and unique features.

Right from day one, our focus was on creating a vibrant community of book lovers, not a staid book shelf application. Community and the inter-connections between community members enfold every aspect of iRead. On a book page, a user can see all the members of the community that have added that book. When a user marks a book as a wanna read, he/she can see the friends that own a copy of that book. A books’ rating is split to show how a user’s friends rated it different from the rest of the community.

We are on our way to launching many more engaging and fun social features on iRead. Almost all of the ideas have come from our iReaders. If we haven’t heard from you yet, please go ahead and tell us how you’d like iRead to shape up.