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Pimping Your Book, Indie or Traditional

Holly Robinson | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Authors, Publishing, Book Marketing, Writing, Author Central, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Selling Your Book, Sleeping Tigers, Book Blogs, Goodreads, Reading, Indie Books, Amazon, Novel Publicity, Book Publicity, Books News

There are some differences in how traditional and indie books are publicized, but those differences are shrinking by the nanosecond.

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Did that Bad Review Come with a Side of Ulterior Motives?

Kaitlyn Davis | Posted 02.20.2012

Read More: Goodreads, Amazon Reviews, Online Book Reviews, Book Reviews, Goodreads Reviews, Amazon, Books News

How much can you trust book reviews on the web? Turns out, very little.

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Why You Can't Trust Amazon Reviewers

IndieReader | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Goodreads, Bad Book Reviews, Yelp, Amazon Kindle, Indiereader, Trip Advisor, Amazon, Consumer Reviews, Books News

Love it or hate it, this is an exciting time in the publishing world. Technological advances have made the long, arduous process of publishing a book cheap, easy and fast--giving voice to millions of new authors and providing readers with a richer, more interesting selection of books.

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For the Exhausted Author, Wellness Is on the T.V.

Suzanne Morrison | Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Michael Jackson, Yoga, Beef Jerky, Williamsburg, Twitter, Jane Austen, Bbc, Brooklyn, Yoga-Bitch, Downton Abbey, Book Tours, Facebook, Wellness, Television, Artisanal, Harry Potter, Books News

Television. It's the greatest invention ever. Who needs Omega fats and deep breathing and flowing linen when you can wear the leggings & ripped t-shirt you slept in while gnawing on fancy beef jerky?

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Jennifer Egan On GoodReads: Can An Online Forum Really Be A Book Club?

HuffingtonPost.com | Jo Piazza | Posted 10.09.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Jennifer Egan a Visit From the Goon Squad, Goodreads Book Club, Books, Goodreads Online Book Club, Online Book Club, Jennifer Egan Pulitzer Prize, Jennifer Egan, Book Clubs, A Visit From the Goon Squad, Culture News

Online book club seems like an oxymoron. Book clubs after all are supposed to represent a kind of social gathering where like-minded people sit down t...

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Goodreads Partners With First Book To Fight Illiteracy

GalleyCat | Maryann Yin on July 8, 2011 10:23 AM | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Jennifer Egan, Book Clubs, Illiteracy, Goodreads Book Club, A Visit From the Goon Squad, First Book, Books News

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 ...

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Top 20 Facebook Apps For Book Lovers

GalleyCat | Jason Boog on April 24, 2011 6:23 PM | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Visual Bookshelf, Weread, Book Facebook Apps, Book Apps, Facebook Apps, Excellent Books, Book Clubs, Facebook, Tumble Books, Yournextread, Books News

Not all Facebook apps are dedicated to Farmville-style social games. Goodreads has the most popular book related app on Facebook, counting more than 1...

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Best Social Reading SItes: What Have You Been Spotted Reading In Private? (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 06.10.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Scribd, Shelfari, Copia, Social Reading Sites, Library Thing, Book Lamp, Slidepollajax, Readfeeder, Book Glutton, Books News

Are social reading sites changing the way we think about reading? Is it the new equivalent to reading in public? People can now start book groups with...

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Need Advice On What To Read? Ask The Internet

nytimes.com | CLAIRE CAIN MILLER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Recommendations, Algorithm, Goodreads, Goodreads Algorithm, Book Recommendation Algorithm, Books News

Netflix uses a software algorithm to recommend movies and Zappos uses one to recommend shoes. Now Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, is in...

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Why I Give Everything Five Stars

Ben H. Winters | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Internet, Rankings, Shopping, Books, Amazon, Book Reviews, Online Shopping, Books News

In a world where Amazon sells everything from books to lightbulbs, then asks the consumer to rank his purchase from zero to five, I worry that we start to forget that a book is different than a box of lightbulbs.

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Be Kind to the Author Whose Book You Can't Stand (or, Authors Have Feelings, Too!)

Melanie Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Ernest Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Reading Groups, Social Networking, Goodreads, Twitter, Etiquette, Book Clubs, Politeness, Thomas Wolfe, Reading, Facebook, Amazon, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Books News

So my plea is a simple one. If you had a problem with my book or a part of my book, by all means talk about it, discuss it with others -- just make sure I'm not in the room, too.

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Has Goodreads Jumped the Shark?

Catherine McKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Author Effect, Shawn Klomparens, Goodreads, Bestsellers, Sarah Pekkanen, No Rain, Lauren Weisberger, Books News

What good is a rating that has nothing to do with someone actually reading your book? And also, why were so many people/authors falling for this?

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The Perils Of Literary Social Networking

themillions.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Authors, Google, Literary Social Networking, Literary Social Networks, Twitter, Social Networks, Social Networking, Books, Googlereads, Facebook, Reading, Book Networking, Poetry, Goodreads, Books News

Last night, disturbed by anxieties only tangentially related to Goodreads, I had trouble falling asleep again, and eventually got up at three-thirty, ...

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Goodreads.com Founder And Print Heir Says Reviews And Bookstores Dying

latimes.com | ByJames Rainey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Internet, Newspaper Heir, Los Angeles Times, Book Publishing, Stanford Grad, LA Times, Chandler, Nielsen, Print, Chains, goodreads.com, Book Clubs, Bookstores, Books News

"Book reviews in newspapers, well, those are gone," the young Web entrepreneur told me in the most matter-of-fact way. "Independent bookstores are alm...

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The 5 Best Book Recommendation Websites

lifehacker.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Shelfari, Goodreads, Book Recommendations, Amazon Recommends, Books, Librarything, Getglue, Books News

It's disappointing to haul a book home from the library or shell out hard-earned cash at the bookstore only to settle in at home and find you don't en...

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Betty White + Facebook = Book Sales?

Catherine McKenzie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bestsellers, Goodreads, Oprah Book Club, Social Media, Book Publishing, Book Marketing, Twitter, Shawn Klomparens, Books, New Media, Marketing, Facebook, Reading, Books News

Could I "bet" a bunch of people on Facebook and make a book a bestseller? Well, sure I could try. Why the hell not?

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A Writer's First Year: Where's My Web Butler?

Holly Robinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Book Publishing, Writers, Blog Tours, Books, Writing, The Gerbil Farmer's Daughter, Sex and the City, Goodreads, Authors, Marketing, Publicists, Blogging, Google, Books News

When my book publicist discovered that I neither blogged nor commented on other people's blogs, she instructed me to start. Now. As in, yesterday. I was paralyzed with fear.

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Don't Believe the E-book Skeptics

Nathan Bransford | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Ereaders, Newsweek, Apple, Shelfari, Kindle, Slate, Seinfeld, Mass Market, Nostradamus, Faulkner, Ebooks, Ipad, Books News

The e-book era is going to be one of incredible innovation and unlimited opportunity. I refuse to believe the skeptics and pessimists. Books are about to get better.

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Reading In Private, Or A Social Pursuit?

The New York Times | MOTOKO RICH | Posted 12.08.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Oprah Book Club, Virginia Woolf, Books, Librarything, Newbery Award, Lois Lowry, Shelfari, Rebecca Stead, Twilight, When You Reach Me, Harry Potter, Reading, Reading in Private, Books News

Reading might well have been among the last remaining private activities, but it is now a relentlessly social pursuit. Gaggles of readers get together...

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Copia eBook Platform To Produce New eReaders With DMC

Gizmodo | Brian Barrett | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: thecopia.com, Social Networking, Ocean eReader, Books, Ebooks, Goodreads, New eBooks, Tidal eReader, Ereaders, Copia, Dmc, Books News

Copia is an open platform that wants to help you share with the world world exactly how you rate the entire Norah Roberts oeuvre. It's like Goodreads ...

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Goodreads Gets $2 Million Grant, Plans Major Improvements

Los Angeles Times | Carolyn Kellogg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Otis Chandler, Shelfari, Social Networking, Books, Start-Ups, Funding, Librarything, Book Clubs, True Ventures, Reading, Ebooks, Books News

Last week the books-and-social-networking site Goodreads announced it had received $2 million in venture capital, led by start-up-friendly True Ventur...

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So Many Books, So Many Friends

Jonathan Black | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Los Angeles Times, Reading, Good Reading, Books, Amazon, Media News

Surely we were meant to spend more time reading books than creating lists and harvesting opinions.

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