Librify

Thanks for sharing some Librify love, Kris! We're currently in Beta at the moment, but lots of fun social reading features to come! Stay tuned for updates :)

Now if only I had friends. Do those come with a monthly subscription? (Beautiful site, btw. Nice partnership with Target, too.)

Really liking Librify–the future opportunities here are huge. I haven't seen a book club done well through e-reader yet and it looks like the Target partnership could really launch that well. @ulianoj can you speak to the book selection that will be available on Librify?

@ulianoj i'm craving to meet other awesome people who read, but i've felt let down by other services. why will this succeed when others haven't? cc @jenny8lee who may be interested.

Being a book person (and professional, I'm intrigued by anyone making reading a social experience outside of the real world. However as I looked at the site, I had some questions (both personally and professionally). For the monthly fee, you get one book from the membership book list. The sample list is mostly fiction (and mostly modern/popular fiction), and a mix of new and old (Great Gatsby). Is that a common mix? Or are the "See more lists" books also part of that? (Even the see more lists are pretty limited and dated). You say you have 1 million titles. Are there any of the big or medium publishers you aren't working with? (Wondering what the limitations are going to be as per selection)? Looks like members get about a 20% discount, but I saw a few free books. How are you choosing the free books, or are those priced by the authors that way? I see you're letting users rate books. Are you going to include user reviews as well? Or editorial reviews? (He says with an ulterior motive, having a bank of 10,000+ reviews from the last 6 years).

"See friends’ highlights, reading progress and comments in the app and online when you invite friends to read a book with you." Sounds pretty clever. Kind of like your neighborhood book club through an app