Virality is an awesome thing. LibraryThing grew virally, and we’re seeing the same patterns with our new Local Books iPhone application (blog post, iTunes), released last Wednesday.
Some highlights:
- L.A. Times’ Jacket Copy, “Can Local Books iPhone app be a literary UrbanSpoon?”
- Huffington Post picked it up.
- New Yorker: Book Bench (brief notice)
- The Unquiet Librarian
- Resource Shelf
- The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian
- TeleRead
- A Bibliophile’s Bookshelf
- Public Library Association blog.
- UBiT 2010 (Norwegian)
Most noticeable, though, has been the shift away from blogs, which were once the main way people found out about LibraryThing and its new features, toward Twitter and other services (see Twitter’s list of tweets with my original URL). I think that, for smaller topics like this, Twitter has simply taken over.
Maybe I’ll change my mind if someone at the New York Times notices the New Yorker or L.A. Times pieces, and decides to write their own!
Labels: local books
The LA Times article points out a problem I pointed out previously here:
http://www.librarything.com/topic/78854
Namely, the old fairs/festivals. Since 2008/2009 have been removed as possible dates, it's impossible to mark mark them as defunct without changing the year of the event. Can you fix?
I can't find a Library Thing app in the app store. Is this for iPhone's only? Does it not work on iPod Touch? If not, why not?
Ah, found it now I re-read it was called local books, but still puzzled why searching for LibraryThing fails to bring up anything.