{"id":1212,"date":"2007-04-07T10:58:36","date_gmt":"2007-04-07T14:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2007\/04\/07\/beating-oprah-at-the-book-club-game\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:52","slug":"beating-oprah-at-the-book-club-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2007\/04\/07\/beating-oprah-at-the-book-club-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Oprah at the book club game"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1314\">CNNMoney<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Spalding was 9 years-old when he had the idea of using his first computer&#8211;an Apple II&#8211;to make lists of the books he owned, like the Adventures of Tintin series and Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective.<\/p>\n<p>Flash-forward to 2007. Spalding is now a programmer, and he&#8217;s still keeping lists, but on a far grander scale. A couple of years ago, on a lark, he created an online version of his original Apple application, one that allowed anyone on the Internet to post a list of the books in his or her library, compare it with other online book lists, and talk about literature with people of similar reading tastes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was trying to scratch my own itch,&#8221; Spalding admits. That itch became LibraryThing, a social network based not on who you know but on what you&#8217;ve read. It&#8217;s already producing a nice revenue stream for Spalding from the sale of thousands of premium memberships at $10 to $25 apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Spalding&#8217;s creation is quietly achieving cult status among bookworms around the world, creating a network with one of the highest IQs in cyberspace. Less than two years after it opened its doors to the public, LibraryThing&#8217;s users have listed, tagged, or recommended more than 10 million works&#8211;a collection that, were it not virtual, would be the third-largest private library in the United States, behind those of Harvard and Yale.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNNMoney: Tim Spalding was 9 years-old when he had the idea of using his first computer&#8211;an Apple II&#8211;to make lists of the books he owned, like the Adventures of Tintin series and Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective. Flash-forward to 2007. Spalding is now a programmer, and he&#8217;s still keeping lists, but on a far grander &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1212","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}