Today's Thursday Release brings two new features. We’re bringing online badges for official profiles  on BookLikes, mainly for authors, publishers, bookstores, libraries and people from publishing branch.

That’s not all. If you have Facebook Page, you can add Facebook plugin to your webpage and show stream from your Facebook Page also on your BookLikes webpage.

Official profile is a profile with a green badge. Badges can be received by book authors, publishers, bookstores, libraries and other individuals from publishing branch. Badges are visible on Blog, Dashboard, Explore page and in search results:

We use verification process to check authenticity of people and companies on BookLikes. All information how to get verified and receive official profile badge, can be found on our FAQ site. Feel free to contact us with any questions.

Second feature is Facebook widget from your Facebook Page. If you have Facebook Page you can add Facebook widget to your BookLikes webpage. Facebook plugin enables users to like your Facebook Page and view its stream directly from your BookLikes webpage. To add Facebook widget go to Settings/Blog and paste link to your Facebook Page in Social Networks spot.

We’re happy to welcome so many new book lovers on BookLikes. We hope you’ll feel at home here. To make reading more social activity we recommend visiting Explore page which presents other avid readers and book blogs adjusted to your language version of service. You can also Invite your friends via email or Facebook.

If you still don’t know who to follow, this may be a tip :-) We would like to present you a glimpse into BookLikes community.

Impressive collection of book reviews can be found on numerous blog in various languages, you can see all of them on Explore page and here are several that we’ve picked. You can easily find great book recommendations and fill up your shelf with new reads. 

But you can also find other interesting bookish things on BookLikes, like inspiring quotes and interesting pictures.

They can be found for example here:

Book-love, 

Book Geek, 

Bookish Quotes, 

Books Direct. 

And on many other blogs on BookLikes :-)

We’re also happy to welcome book writers on BookLikes. If you’re an author, please let us know and we’ll switch on Author Feature for you. We’ll be releasing more features dedicated for authors soon so if you have any ideas or request, let us know.

And now meet some of BookLikes Authors who share their latest book news, for example: David P. Elliot reveals cover of his upcoming books and Libby Hellmann invites you to read and review her newest book and you can even receive a PDF book copy!

OK, so if you have met the authors, now it's time for books.

Those who are addicted book buyers will be happy to visit our Daily Deals page where we present great books in good prices. Daily Deals are adjusted to your country and updated daily.

You can also find information about book promotions on BookLikes blogs. Bookworm Dreams writes about Kindle  Freebies every Friday and today we can also find interesting Free on Amazon post on I'm lost in the moment blog. 

And now it's high time to get lost in a good book or a good book blog :-)

Enjoy!