And so, perhaps unsurprisingly, the site is a great platform for convincing people to buy books. Roughly 29 percent of Goodreads users told Codex they'd learned about the last book they bought either on the site, or at another book-focused social network. When all is said and done, in the world of books, Goodreads is just about as influential as Facebook. So Amazon has just bought the ecosystem where many of America's most influential readers choose their books.
How exactly they'll use it isn't entirely clear yet. Some have suggested they'll integrate Goodreads into the Kindle experience. Others think that, given the problems Amazon has had with writers buying friendly reviews, they might use the site as an a big cache of trustworthy opinions. As David Vinjamuri put it at Forbes , "Goodreads offers Amazon the ability to transmit the recommendations of prolific readers to the average reader. Assuming, of course, they don't do anything to muck up their new purchase.
Skip to content Site Navigation The Atlantic. Popular Latest. Our members have been asking us to bring the Goodreads experience to an e-reader for a long time. Now we're looking forward to bringing Goodreads to the most popular e-reader in the world, Kindle, and further reinventing what reading can be. Amazon supports us continuing to grow our vision as an independent entity, under the Goodreads brand and with our unique culture. It's important to be clear that Goodreads and the awesome team behind it are not going away.
Goodreads will continue to be the wonderful community that we all cherish. We plan to continue offering you everything that you love about the site—the ability to track what you read, discover great books, discuss and share them with fellow book lovers, and connect directly with your favorite authors—and your reviews and ratings will remain here on Goodreads. And it's incredibly important to us that we remain a home for all types of readers, no matter if you read on paper, audio, digitally, from scrolls, or even stone tablets.
For all of you Kindle readers, there's obviously an extra bonus in this announcement. You've asked us for a long time to be able to integrate your Kindle and Goodreads experiences.
Making that option a reality is one of our top priorities. Our team gets out of bed every day motivated by the belief that the right book in the right hands can change the world.
Now Goodreads can help make that happen in an even bigger and more meaningful way thanks to joining the Amazon family. And if you want to be part of this, please check out our Jobs page for open positions. We've got a lot of hires to make! This is an emotional day for me. Goodreads is more than a company to me — it's something that Elizabeth and I created because we wanted it to exist. Since then it has grown a lot and become a place we love working at, full of incredibly smart and passionate people who also believe in our mission.
I feel a little like a college graduate — happy to come to this milestone, nostalgic for the past amazing seven years, and incredibly, incredibly, excited for the future.
Otis P. For the more official version of the announcement, here's the press release that went out today. Please let us know — what integration with Kindle would you love to see the most? Mar 28, PM. Is it going to be required to use your Amazon login to get into GR, then? Feature Request: When I buy a book on Amazon I'd like it to automatically get added to my to read or reading shelf unless I click a box to not post it, which I would do if it was something like a Self Help book, no one needs to know that I need any help.
What about us Nookies? So I hope all the missing book covers come back to Goodreads?! I'm assuming those will be integrated? Oh, I second Jacquie. That would be fablous to have the reviews linked! Great news! I'm hoping my missing book covers will reappear.
It's not April Fool's Day. This is real!? Jacquie wrote: "for me, I would like to be able to post one review and have it go to both sites" This is a great idea! Furthermore, I'd still love to find info on where to purchase a book as cheaply as possible, not restricted to Amazon. I get it, you need money. But I hope Amazon does not hinder the ability to buy books from other sites and prevent competition.
This curious since Amazon already owns and neglects Shelfari. I would say nothing needs to be done for readers except include more of the website features in to the existing app for Nook and Kindle Fire. There is no need to give special treatment to Kindle users.
Jacquie wrote: "for me, I would like to be able to post one review and have it go to both sites" That's something I would like, if it was across both, then I wouldn't have to worry about writing 2 reviews Now I know on Amazon your reviews are no longer your own, but Amazon's, does this mean that my reviews on GR will belong to Amazon?
So another good site succumbs to the lure of the big name I hope the original purpose of Goodreads won't be lost. Awesome news. Can't wait to see what kind of integration this will produce. Would be nice to be able to sync the books on my kindle with GR automatically :. I'm with Nikki. Not happy about this news. Goodreads also offers a social reading API of its own , so developers can access social data, reviews and discussions. For Goodreads, the books themselves are just the backend.
While Amazon is surely a wealth of book data, Goodreads can repair its library on its own. It will pay license fees to Ingram , the largest U. But for the long term, these growing pains will be well worth it as Goodreads makes its way independently. Do you use Goodreads or another social reading service?
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