iDreamBooks

iDreamBooks
Type of site	Book review aggregator
URL	idreambooks.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional
Launched	July 2012

iDreamBooks.com was a book "discoverability" website, structured as a book review aggregator.^[2] It was founded in San Francisco by Rahul Simha, Vish Chapalamadugu and Mohit Aggarwal^[2] in July 2012.^[1] The site is inspired by the film review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes,^[3] whose co-founder Patrick Lee was an early investor in the venture.^[2]

Similarly to the Rotten Tomatoes system, iDreamBooks.com assigns two percentage scores to each title: one is based on professional reviews from reputable publications (including, among many others,

Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House, and Simon & Schuster), but in the future, it plans to include also the smaller publishers and classics.^[3] Revenue is generated from paid partnerships, of which the first one was the Sony Reader store partnership; the site also licenses its data, and, in the future, plans to offer marketing deals for individual authors or groups of books.^[2]

See also

Goodreads

Rotten Tomatoes

Review aggregator

Notes and references

^ ^a ^b "To read or not to read: idreambooks.com and the guidance of frowning clouds". Crikey. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Sony Partners with iDreamBooks.com, Book Discoverability Site". Publishers Weekly. April 19, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

^
The Huffington Post
. July 13, 2012. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

[BlogsCrikeyCom-1] "To read or not to read: idreambooks.com and the guidance of frowning clouds". Crikey. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

[PublishersWeekly-2] "Sony Partners with iDreamBooks.com, Book Discoverability Site". Publishers Weekly. April 19, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2013.

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