Goodreads News

DBW featured a press release for BookLikes , a new social reading platform that is supposed to combine the features of Tumblr and Goodreads.

Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books To Turn Graph Search Into A GoodReads For Everything - For the first time, Facebook users can now give star ratings to movies, TV shows, and books.

Great Bend Public Library will show "Annie" at the next Teen Movie Monday, 4 p.m. on May 20.

Amazon Publishing is launching a weekly romance podcast, "Kindle Love Stories." The podcast will include a discussion group at Goodreads, the reading-focused social network that Amazon recently acquired.

Over at Goodreads , a team of authors played a game of exquisite corpse and wrote part of a short story together.

The person who convinced me to join Goodreads, the site where readers review and make recommendations about books sent a link to a work called Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by professor/consultant Richard Rumelt.

The Marathon County Public Library launched a digital classics book club May 1 in an effort to engage people in reading and book discussions that match up with their own schedules.

The death of film critic Roger Ebert in April inspired an immediate outpouring from friends, colleagues, and admirers.

Bookish is a great example of this. Bookish took two years to launch and was started by Penguin Publishing as a portal to share books.

We're not sure what we're more excited about, the nation's newest book prize or the novelist who received it.

In working with a client to optimize her book's Amazon page, I checked various Kindle ebook categories.

For those who are new ... we discuss books. I list what I'm reading, and people comment with what they're reading.

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Now that Amazon is buying Goodreads , I'm guessing lots more people are going to be using the site, so it seemed to make sense to write a review of the app.

Software engineer Otis Chandler and writer Elizabeth Chandler, his wife, began building Goodreads in their living room.

Did Amazon outmaneuver Apple when it bought the book-recommendation website Goodreads? According to the Wall Street Journal , Apple had been in partnership discussions with the reading social network website last year and was caught off-guard when the company was acquired by Amazon last month.