AbeBooks adds book recommendations from social networking site LibraryThing

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AbeBooks adds book recommendations from social networking site LibraryThing

03-08-2007, 10:08 AM,

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AbeBooks adds book recommendations from social networking site LibraryThing

Quote:AbeBooks is mining data from LibraryThing.com to power its new BookHints recommendation system. LibraryThing is a social-networking and book-cataloging site for bibliophiles recently profiled in the New York Times. AbeBooks has a 40 percent stake in the service, giving it access to unique data about books created by LibraryThing's worldwide community of more than 155,000 readers.

At LibraryThing, more than 10 million books from the personal libraries of booklovers have been cataloged, tagged (a short but personal descriptive term rather than traditional library or bookstore classification) and rated. This data powers the BookHints system now found on AbeBooks.com and AbeBooks.co.uk...

full article: http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y07/m03/i07/s03

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