Goodreads

Amazon to Acquire Book Lovers' Network Goodreads - Posted March 28, 2013
Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire Goodreads, a community for book lovers. Founded in 2007, the San Francisco-based company has a member base of 16 million avid readers who have collectively formed more ... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Adds Open Graph Actions Such As Run, Quote, Want To Watch - Posted March 8, 2013
Facebook has been experimenting with ways that allow users to be more expressive -- such as structured status updates and... [AllFacebook]

Facebook Testing More Open Graph Actions - Posted March 4, 2013
Facebook is testing a host of new open graph actions for content involving subjects like books, movies, and television, including "rate," "quote," "wants to read," and "wants to watch," developer ... [AllFacebook]

How Facebook Can Break Into The Markets Of Craigslist And Ebay - Posted February 18, 2013
Facebook is moving to position itself as the hub of all interest-based communities (Pinterest, Spotify, Foodspotting, and Goodreads, for example) with i... [Lost Remote]

How Facebook Can Break Into The Markets Of Craigslist And Ebay - Posted February 18, 2013
Facebook is moving to position itself as the hub of all interest-based communities (Pinterest, Spotify, Foodspotting, and Goodreads, for example) with i... [AllFacebook]

Podcast: Discovered Books | Hidden Book Clubs - Posted February 5, 2013
On today's social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog explored the sexy side of book publishing in the digital age. First, we discussed the launch of Bookish, a collaboration between three ... [SocialTimes.com]

Goodreads Cracks Down on Dirty Book Clubs - Posted February 1, 2013
In order to keep Goodreads safe for younger readers, the company has outlined ... [SocialTimes.com]

Keep Your New Year's Resolution With The Help Of Facebook Apps - Posted January 2, 2013
What's the biggest resolution everyone makes on Jan. 1? Lose weight and be healthier. There are several Facebook applications tha... [AllFacebook]

Goodreads Tips for Writers & Old Fashioned eReaders: Top Stories of the Week - Posted December 16, 2012
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week. They include Goodreads tips, a funny comic about eReaders and adding your audiobook to Spotify. Click here to sign up for GalleyCat's daily email newsle... [AllTwitter]

Goodreads Tips for Writers & Old Fashioned eReaders: Top Stories of the Week - Posted December 16, 2012
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week. They include Goodreads tips, a funny comic about eReaders and adding your audiobook to Spotify. Click here to sign up for GalleyCat's daily email newsle... [GalleyCat]

Goodreads Tips for Writers & Old Fashioned eReaders: Top Stories of the Week - Posted December 14, 2012
For your weekend reading pleasure, here are our top stories of the week. They include Goodreads tips, a funny comic about eReaders and adding your audiobook to Spotify. Click here to sign up for GalleyCat's daily email newsle... [semanticweb.com]

Podcast: Tips for Today's Social Curation Summit in Los Angeles - Posted December 12, 2012
On this social media edition of the Morning Media Menu, GalleyCat editor Jason Boog got us ready for our Social Curation Summit in Los Angeles with a new resume tool and some do's and don'ts for hanging out on a social network for authors. Today's conference ... [SocialTimes.com]

What Writers Need to Know About Goodreads - Posted December 11, 2012
Have you joined Goodreads? This bustling community of readers seems perfect for writers, but it is very easy to make a bad impression on its members. After a long Ask Me Anything interview on Reddit, novelist ... [GalleyCat]

New Adult Fiction Readership Explodes on Goodreads - Posted December 3, 2012
New Adult fiction has climbed our Self-Published Bestsellers List f... [GalleyCat]

10 Ways To Stalk A Facebook Profile For Holiday Gift Ideas - Posted November 22, 2012
It's hard to believe that Thanksgiving is already here. Perhaps even more difficult to swallow is th... [AllFacebook]

Goodreads Ranks On Top Free iOS eBook Apps List This Week - Posted August 30, 2012
Goodreads' app is the No. 4 bestselling free iOS app in the books genre for the week, according to research from AppData. The a... [AppNewser]

Are Fake 'User' Reviews an Acceptable PR Tool? - Posted August 27, 2012
Every marketing/PR pro knows (or should know) the value of user-generated content: They're real-life reviews of products, services and professional organizations (like, say, PR firms) written by real-life customers! In certain industries like elect... [PRNewser]

Goodreads Reaches 10 Million Members - Posted August 13, 2012
Goodreads, a social networking site for readers, has grown its membership to 10 million members. Collectively, these users have shelved 360 million books (chart embedded above). The rate of growth has gained momentum in the last year and ... [GalleyCat]

Goodreads Reaches 10 Million Members, 360 Million Books - Posted August 13, 2012
The social network for reading, sharing, and recommending books now boasts 10 million members, who have collectively shelved more than 360 million books since the site launched in January 2007. Goodreads announced the milestone on August 13, 2012 in a post on the company blog. Most of the growth has happened in... [SocialTimes.com]

Facebook Apps Provide Best Of Fourth Of July Lists - Posted June 29, 2012
As the Fourth of July holiday approaches,... [AllFacebook]

Goodreads Partners with First Book to Fight Illiteracy - Posted July 8, 2011
Goodreads has partnered with First Book, a charity group whose mission is to make sure children who reside in low-income communities are able to have access to books. Together, these two organizations will be fighting illiteracy using the Goodread... [GalleyCat]

O'Reilly on Amazon/Shelfari: Web 2.0 Consolidation Begins - Posted August 27, 2008
Tim O'Reilly has some interesting observations concerning Amazon.com's acquisition of Shelfari earlier this week—starting with the fact that the current playing field for book-themed social networking... [GalleyCat]

TurnHere Adds Partners, Launches Customizable Widget Player - Posted September 11, 2007
In a press release issued yesterday, online video solutions platform TurnHere announced nearly one dozen new distribution partners, including Goodreads, LibraryThing and Buy.com, for its book-centric online channel Bookvideos.tv. In addition, TurnHere also unveiled a brand new customizable widget and enhanced video player for book publishers, which will expand the reach... [GalleyCat]

Web 2.0 Publishing Roundup - Posted July 11, 2007
Booktour.com, whose existence we first announced on GalleyCat during BEA, has now gone live. As first reported here yesterday morning, Shelfari and Facebook have teamed up to launch the S... [GalleyCat]