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
Fopp (retailer) Fopp (retailer) Fopp is a Scottish chain of retail stores selling music, film, books and other entertainment products in the pUnited Kingdom. It is owned by HMV. The company began as a one-man stall in Glasgow, Scotland in 1981. The name "Fopp" comes from the title of a song by the Ohio Players on their 1975 album "Honey". By 2007, Fopp had expanded to become a chain of over 100 branches in the UK. With the demise of rival chain Music Zone, Fopp became the third largest specialist music retailer in the UK in terms of store numbers (after HMV