If I had the technical skill—and the venture capital—I would create a website that aggregated book reviews. Many websites have book reviews, including newspapers, academic journals, Google Books, WorldCat, Amazon, ABE Books, and just about any other book retailer. Someone looking for a review of a book could go to the website, search for the book, and get all the reviews in one place.

The basic feature set would include the following:

• Book reviews from all non-gated websites, such as the New York Times, Amazon, and Google Books.
• Links to book reviews from subscription only websites, such as the New York Review of Books. The user might not be able to access them, but he would know where they were.
• Links to academic book reviews, such those included in JSTOR and History Cooperative.
• The ability to add new book reviews. If there a central website where anyone could add a book review, most people add their reviews their. For now most people add their reviews to Amazon. If a site could get that type of user participation, it would have a valuable source of free information.
• All those book reviews would be sortable by source or type of source (among other criteria). If the user could choose which sources he wanted displayed first, he could organize the reviews in the order he found them to be most credible. For example, I would put academic journals first, then prominent newspapers, with user reviews last, but other people would probably care about user reviews most.
• RSS feeds for new reviews on each book.
• RSS feeds for new books and reviews in each genre or category, e.g., novels or American history.

The site would make money by advertising revenue and by including referral links to sellers, such as Amazon.

If anyone wants to help me pull this off, let me know.