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Amazon.com is buying Shelfari – that is, according to the Seattle social networking start-up, but for now the online retail giant is keeping mum about the deal. Shelfari is a community and review site for books, or rather book readers. Co-founder and CEO Josh Hug cheerily announced the agreement in a blog post yesterday in …

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  1. John Macintyre
    Paris Hilton

    The rain has stopped...

    , the birds are chirping and the biggest news of all - we're making a mint of you suckers. eat that.

    paris, cause she eats and makes a mint...

  2. Lloyd

    Well lookee here

    We got ourselves a reader, whatcha readin' fer boy?

  3. Ian Ferguson
    Stop

    If it's any good

    then Amazon will quietly snuff it out.

  4. Martin Lyne

    No

    waffle waitresses there..

  5. Marvin the Martian
    Unhappy

    Time to give up on the web.

    And there was stupid old me thinking that Amazon was a discount bookstore --- no, it turns out to be a platform for people to share ideas?

    It just goes to show I'm roadkill on the infosuperhighway and haven't understood anything of the intrinsic underlying dynamic whatchamacallit... web.

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