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
Scion of Ikshvaku now the primary target of pre-launch marketing activities for potential blockbusters. What really matters, though, is what will follow in weeks 2 through 20." Controversy erupted when Westland filed a case against online retailer Flipkart, alleging that the company had violated IT Act by selling the book on their website, since they had signed an exclusive deal with Amazon. The case was sub judice under the Delhi High Court, and they declined to pass a restraint order on the sales of the book at Flipkart. Instead they asked the company to provide their responses by August 4, 2015. Rasul Ballay