Books
the illiterate web2.0
Why isn’t there a high-profile collaborative web 2.0 site for people who like to read? Is it just that no one deep in web 2.0 reads novels — it’s all O’Reilly and design books? Or is it just that people who like to read are too busy reading to care about plugging this kind of activity into a website?
I doubt that, because Amazon lists are pretty damn popular, and I’ve dug through a number of them for my wife (my favorite being Chain Reading) who had wondered out loud where she could find one, and the majority of them are like Chain Reading — currently a modest personal project by an individual or two.
There’s no knocking that, because that’s exactly how the majority of the current successes started (del.icio.us & Digg, plus Flickr to a degree), but nowadays people jump into this field with the intent of being a business at the start, and yet there still isn’t a serious contender for the book reader. Go2Web20 recently hit the Digg homepage, and yet plugging in a search for “book” in its direction of web 2.0 sites comes up with nothing. Hell, books aren’t even a category.
Prove me wrong! What’s the best web 2.0 site for books — and only books (no lib.rario.us or All Consuming, they’re way too general about media) — that you’ve seen?
