Explore the world of Bookcrossing
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Bookcrossing is a unique website where books are shared among members and travel around the world. In this paper, we study several features of Bookcrossing regarding book flows, book genres and social networking. We first examine the direction, density, length and speed of book flows and find that the US is the biggest source of book flows, while Finland and Australia are two largest sinks and that length and speed of the book journey are influenced by the crossing zone, the publishing region and the category. Second, we compare book copy distributions and customer reviews in Bookcrossing and Amazon and propose hypotheses to explain the differences. Third, we study the social networking function in Bookcrossing concluding that interactions of Bookcrossing members through books increase the friend probability.
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