POSTED BY prbythebook ON April 1, 2013
It was announced last week, so the timing of this news would exempt it from any April Fools pranks: Amazon is acquiring Goodreads.
There was one sentiment most people shared about Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads: Wow. Otherwise, the population seems to be split pretty much 50/50 about this news. Some readers and authors see it as enhancing the tools they already use. For the other half, it feels more like a vicious take over of one of their most beloved neutral reading sites.
Amazon’s growing dominance in the book industry has many people uneasy. Most headlines of this news took an obvious negative slant towards the retail giant’s purchase: “Amazon Gobbles Up Goodreads,” “Amazon tightens its chokehold,” etc. Salon’s Rob Spillman wrote about the news with some pretty entertaining commentary. When the news originally broke, he quickly quipped several reactions…this one is probably the best:
He’s not alone. Here are some other tweeps lamenting the loss of Goodreads:
Many Goodreads purists are abandoning their accounts because of a new reign, but we are supposed to remain confident that Goodreads will maintain its integrity and will not be changing much.
So, how do you feel about it? Does this make you want to jump the Goodreads ship?
Tags: Amazon, commentary, Goodreads, Social Media
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POSTED BY prbythebook ON February 13, 2013
At the Digital Book World Conference this year, “book discovery” was a major concern from many of the speakers and panelists. Everyone seemed to be in agreement: online and digital discovery needs a solution. But what does the solution look like? There’s still a lot of uncertainty there. Shortly after the conference, Bookish.com made its [...]
Tags: Book Discovery, Book Retail, Bookish
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POSTED BY prbythebook ON January 22, 2013
We didn’t make it to New York this year for the Digital Book World Conference. Luckily, in this digital world of ours, we did participate by live streaming the main part of the conference and tweeting along with the rest of the participants. We didn’t get the full experience of the conference, but learned some [...]
Tags: books, Conference, Digital Book World, Discovery
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POSTED BY prbythebook ON December 13, 2012
Emails should be like a good first date. Keep it short and sweet with enough information to entice. If you play your cards right, you might land a second date—or a response. In a fast paced world, we forget the social graces of wooing a date/reader and settle into the bad habit of overly verbose [...]
Tags: Emails, Tips
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POSTED BY prbythebook ON December 6, 2012
It’s the holiday season and along with sipping cocoa by the fire, it’s the perfect time to cozy up with a good book. We thought we’d take the time to share some classic titles for your twelve days of Christmas. Maybe we’ll introduce you to a new title or two. [...]
Tags: Children, Christmas reading, Holidays, Parents
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