[pessimizer]

I always thought Librarything was also bought by Amazon.

later: According to some pretty stale info on Wikipedia, Abebooks bought 40% of Librarything in 2006, and Amazon bought Abebooks entirely in 2008.

edit: https://blog.librarything.com/2008/08/abebooks-news-the-scoo...

https://www.librarything.com/topic/152033

> At the same time, it's well known that Amazon has an indirect but real stake in LibraryThing—they bought Abebooks, who were our first minority partner. People keep reporting that Amazon has 40%. That's simply not true—it fails to take account of our second funder, Bowker. (I remain the majority; I can't say how the rest divides up.) But this certainly muddies the message. For what it's worth, I want LibraryThing to make more money, and therefore my, Bowker and Amazon's stake to be worth more and more, but with Amazon now holding 100% ownership of BOTH our competitors (Goodreads and Shelfari), we can hardly do so without emphasizing what sets us apart.

[pavon]

I did not know Amazon had purchased Abebooks. Damn our antitrust regulators have been asleep for a long time.

[lancesells]

Yeah, this really bothered me when I found out about it. I still use Abebooks but would happily switch to an alternative if there's one out there.

[tren]

Try https://www.betterworldbooks.com/explore/explore-used_books - most of the time the cheapest price at Abebooks points at them anyway