LovelyBooks
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Type of site | Community for literature (see Social software) |
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| Available in | German |
| Owner | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group[1] |
| Website | lovelybooks |
| Launched | December 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
LovelyBooks.de[2] is a German social networking service with a Web 2.0 function for people interested in literature. Users can create a digital footprint of their bookshelves, find readers with similar preferences for genres and discuss books there. The webpage is hosted by aboutbooks GmbH (GmbH refers to „company with limited liability”), a subsidiary of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.[3] It is known as one of the biggest German social book networks.[4]
In February 2015, LovelyBooks had 165,000 enrolled users and was visited 1.2 million times by users each month.[5] Holzbrinck employed and paid ten employees in 2015 for the technology and the organisation of the website; readers and (2015 4200) authors can register for free.[5] Money is earned by advertisement, links to booksellers like Amazon or by organising live readings.[5]
Since 2009 the Community awards the LovelyBooks Leserpreis (the audience award of the LovelyBooks community) in different categories.[6]
Website
Lothar Kleiner and Sandra Dittert had the idea for LovelyBooks.de. Michael Breidenbrücker (last.fm) and Jodok Batlogg (Plone foundation) developed the Website on behalf of aboutbooks. LovelyBooks.de went online in December 2006.
Users can collect books in their virtual bookshelves, or they can put them on their wish-list. Via tags and suggestions other books can be recommended. In groups books are discussed or they are recommended by friends through personal messages. Selected members receive new books in order to present them to the community and to test read them. Regional meetings are arranged.[7]
Literature
- Melanie Mühl: Ein Herzchen für die faire Rezi. Interview with the reviewer Nadine Schomakers. In: FAZ, 28 January 2017, p. 18
Weblinks
References
- ↑ "aboutbooks GmbH". KEK Mediendatenbank.
- ↑ https://www.lovelybooks.de/
- ↑ https://www.verlagederzukunft.de/shelfari-com-erstelle-dein-virtuelles-bucherregal/
- ↑ Buch-Communities: Wer hat das längste Regal? In: FAZ, 20 June 2008
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Oliver Jungen: Die ungeschlagene Schlacht. In: FAZ, 8 February 2015, S. 18
- ↑ https://www.lovelybooks.de/info/faq/
- ↑ https://www.lovelybooks.de/info/faq/
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