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
Maplin (retailer) closed their doors with the Maplin company ceasing to exist. In September 2018, UK technology news site The Register reported that Peter Jones has bought the Maplin name and related IPs. The Maplin site has been since brought online and as of September 2018 is waiting for the official relaunch. Maplin (retailer) Maplin Electronics, trading as Maplin, was a retailer of electronic goods in the United Kingdom and Ireland. In June 2017, there were 217 Maplin stores. The company also operated an extensive online, telephone and mail order service. On 28 February 2018, Maplin went into administration, placing 2,500 jobs