A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm

EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.

  • flora_explora@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honest question: how does StoryGraph value your privacy? Being based in the US and being for free suggests that user data could be the real product. Otherwise it obviously looks really nice and I would love to use their stats.

    • Helvedeshunden@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Not sure what she gets from it, but my partner pays for Storygraph because of how bad Goodreads has become.