Lulu, Morrisville, North Carolina based company and world’s largest marketplace for self-published authors offering online printing and order fulfillment has teams up with Bangalore based WeRead.com - a community for book lovers and a social book discovery application where people can recommend books to their friends on social networks.

WeRead.com statistics in terms of rapid growth especially in Social networking arena is self explanatory to speak about the benefits of its tie-up with Lulu, as currently weRead have more than 2 million registered members, over 1.5 million book reviews and there are over 40 million books on members’ virtual bookshelves through social networking sites Facebook, MySpace, Orkut, Hi5, and Bebo, including individual’s websites/ blogs.

Through this tie-up between two Authors/ Books driven duo websites, what weRead.com will do to books published on Lulu.com is similar to what Social bookmarking widgets doing to article/ Post on websites/ blogs respectively.

Bangalore operated weRead.com is headed by founders Krishna Motukuri and Harish Abbott and the portal is getting more than famous in Facebook crowd. WeRead’s traits such as discovery, independent ratings and reviews, and readership communities on social networks will compliment the Lulu.com’s free self-publishing tools and distribution capabilities.