LibraryThing Is Now Free to All
Google Trends shows that GoodReads seems to get at least <i>100x</i> the popularity LibraryThing does.<p>Both sites were founded around 15 years ago.<p>But they're both still going. (GoodReads, of course, now being owned by Amazon.)<p>Which seems like a pretty unusual situation to me -- can't think of too many parallels where the extreme underdog doesn't either a) just call it quits or b) keeps innovating until they get <i>some</i> kind of "reasonable" market share, whether that's 10% or 30% or 50% or 80%.<p>Above all in a social network. (A big value of GoodReads for me is seeing my friend's books and activity too. As much as I'd be curious to try LibraryThing, I don't think any of my friends have even heard of it.)<p>I'm quite curious how LibraryThing has managed to keep going despite such a tiny userbase, comparatively? I'm genuinely impressed.