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Online social network and marketplace for writers, literary agents, readers and the media. Amazon authors get a free listing on the WriterFace Bookshop. Members can join various WriterFace groups - there is a WriterFace Facebook group also.

authonomy is a website from HarperCollins which promises some interesting dynamics. Part social network, part self-publishing (on the net), the site is setup to let authors publish their manuscripts onto the web, and have these rated by, commented on and read by the authonomy community. Top rated or supported books are promised that in the future HarperCollins wants to look at these for possible publishing. The site also contains top ranked books on the frontpage, and an active forum.

Good Reads is another social network on books, with quite a good author program.

Shelfari is a social network for people who love books. Create a virtual shelf to show off your books (which looks like a shelf), share them with friends. Pretty site.

Bookrabbit is an online bookshop, but with social networking thrown in also. Catalogue your own books, create your own categories, find friends, read other catalogues, join a book group. Now allows imports from LibraryThing and Shelfari.

Authors and readers get together at this social networking site which gives authors the chance to create webpages. Blogs, video-casts, podcasts etc created by authors here.

Tips and ideas are provided for improving a blog to increase readership, along with how to increase the web presence of a blog within a niche.

Where is blogging taking you? If you are like me you start off targeting a specific niche and then focus all your efforts learning everything you can about the niche. While doing this you also find that an essential step for success as a blogger is communicating your message. You search the blogging sphere to find blogs with high readership; analyzing them to determine how the blog is able to successfully communicate their message. The task is never ending, because attracting and retaining readers is critical.