In 2006, MySpace created its own music-recording label following the success of many unsigned bands on its site. Creation of a book publishing subsidiary could be a logical next step.
MySpace created a special section devoted to books in 2006, which includes rankings on several hundred books by popularity--how many times the book has been linked to on Amazon by a MySpace blog.
You can find MySpace's book section by going to www.MySpace.com and clicking Books from the upper left navigation box. The area also features a "books" blog, three genre-based book groups--such as Writers Lounge, Classic Literature Lovers and Mindless Creativeness--and a list of several "featured books."
Certainly MySpace's books section will grow as the site matures. MySpace was bought in 2005 by the media conglomerate News Corp. Like Amazon, MySpace is well positioned to provide micro-publishing and vanity publishing services to its millions of members.