WeRead allows members to browse sections of many new titles and read entire books in electronic format through a partnership with Project Gutenberg. In 2010, Indian online retailer Flipkart acquired weRead for an undisclosed amount. Flipkart, originally an online book store and now India's largest e-commerce company bought weRead to leverage advanced recommendation technologies and social graph information to enhance customer experience. WeRead weRead, formerly iRead, was an online community of book enthusiasts. weRead started out as a social cataloging application on Facebook in June 2007 and had expanded to over 3.1 million active members across Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and
Online Books Page Online Books Page The Online Books Page is an index of e-text books available on the Internet. It is edited by John Mark Ockerbloom and is hosted by the library of the University of Pennsylvania. The Online Books Page lists over 2 million books and has several features, such as "A Celebration of Women Writers" and "Banned Books Online". "The Online Books Page" was the second substantial effort to catalog online texts, but the first to do so with the rigors required by library science. It first appeared on the Web in the summer of 1993. The Internet Public Library