[aninuth]

This is really helpful, thank you! It's been mentioned before here, but what are your plans for privacy/monetization? Also (out of curiosity) where are you getting the book data from? It's pretty exhaustive and fast, but the only problem is that it doesn't prioritize the "real" version of the book (ie when I start typing Fahrenheit 451, the actual book is further down and stuff like the cliffnotes version or literary analyses come up first).

[nezaj]

Hey Aninuth, co-creator Joe here! Thanks for all the comments. Will try to respond to all of them below

1) Privacy / Monetization: We're big believers that users should own their own data. We have no plans to sell your data to anyone. In terms of monetization, there are several approaches. We can add affiliate links to all books on bookshelves. We can build a freemium model. We can have authors promote books. The list goes on. For now we aren't focusing on monetization -- but rather focusing on building an awesome product that gives people what they actually want :)

2) Source of data. For now we are using Google Books api!

3) Thanks for the feedback re: ordering. We'll keep this mind and think about how we can improve our search results.

[aninuth]

Appreciate the response and love the product! I've tried multiple alternatives to Goodreads for organizing my books and have resigned myself to spreadsheets; really hoping this turns into something mainstream. Best of luck!

[loosetypes]

Interesting. How have you found the Google Books api so far?

[stopachka]

It's one of the best ones we've tried so far. The upsides: great content, easy API. The downsides: you need to ask permission to increase rate limits, and it doesn't have books that are only available on Amazon Kindle.