Amazon has the big social-networking site for book readers Goodreads acquired. What Amazon for the site, which has paid, is not known. Goodreads will self site will continue to exist and also support for the Kindle.
The acquisition, which officially still has to be approved and probably next quarter is completed, it is Friday by the two companies announced. One of the two founders of Goodreads, Otis Chandler, claims that the site as an independent part of Amazon will continue to exist, in which the brand name is preserved.
Moreover, the site will, who is sixteen million members, support for Amazons Kindle-readers. How is that support exactly the form it requires, is not yet clear, but it is obvious that, for example, users their wish lists on the Kindle can open and can see what their friends read. It is the second social network for book readers that Amazon takes over; in 2008, they purchased the store to the site Shelfari.