LibraryThing got a sweet deal with Abebooks.com:

LibraryThing is getting a partner. The partner is Abebooks.com, the Canadian company that matches booksellers with booklovers. Abe has taken a minority (40%) share of the company; I retain 60% and majority control. With the financial security and resources Abe brings to the table, LibraryThing’s future looks very bright—increased membership, decent servers and two-three employees working on exciting new features….

I also rejected every offer to swallow, popularize and commercialize LibraryThing—the idea being that if LibraryThing were less about book lovers and what they wanted, and more about video games and “special deals,” it would somehow be more appealing to “regular” people. R-r-right.

And I gave in and bought a lifetime membership (it’s only $25, after all). So now I have to catalog the other 400ish books I have… (Hmm, I don’t think I have any homework due tomorrow… ~devious grin~)

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