Lulu, the marketplace for individual, educational, and corporate authors and publishers to bring their books directly to market, has formed an alliance with weRead, the social networking application for books where readers can easily discover and recommend books to their friends on social networks.

weRead currently has more than two million registered members through social networking sites Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo, including individuals’ websites or blogs and there are over 40 million books on members’ virtual bookshelves. The weRead community has written over 1.5 million book reviews. Among other achievements, weRead is already one of the most popular applications on Facebook. weRead’s powerful discovery and recommendation engine allows search results to be sorted by social network proximity.

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