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Saturday | TeleRead

BookLikes, a New Social Reading Platform: Do we really need another?

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

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Tue May 14, 2013

Techmeme

Facebook Now Lets You Rate Movies, TV, And Books To Turn Graph Search ...

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.

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Mon May 13, 2013

Great Bend Tribune

Library announces teen movie, free computer class

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

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Paid Content

Amazon Publishing launches Kindle Love Stories podcast, focused on romance books

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.

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Tue May 07, 2013

GalleyCat

Help 15 Authors Finish a Short Story on Goodreads

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

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Canadian HR Reporter

Good strategy, bad strategy

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.

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Related Topix: Sales

Fri May 03, 2013

Green Bay Press-Gazette

Library to host first online-only book club

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.

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Related Topix: Marathon County, WI

Thu May 02, 2013

Inc. Magazine

Behold the End of Experts: Why the Goodreads Sale Really Matters

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

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Related Topix: Siskel and Ebert, Entertainment, Television

Travelin' Librarian

Permission Based Publishing: The New York Publishing Model

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.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Lincoln, NE

Thu Apr 25, 2013

Christian Science Monitor

Don DeLillo becomes first writer to receive the Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction

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

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Related Topix: Libraries

Wed Apr 24, 2013

Examiner.com

Book marketing tips: Amazon, Goodreads, Pinterest, Google Plus

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

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Related Topix: Emerging Technology, Search Engines, Marketing

Daily Kos

What are you reading? April 24, 2013

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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Related Topix: Cool, CA, US News, Liberal Political News

Tue Apr 23, 2013

The Motley Fool

Amazon Is Positioning Itself Well For The Long Term

Mike is a member of The Motley Fool Blog Network -- entries represent the personal opinion of the blogger and are not formally edited.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Blog News, Science / Technology, Apple, Cloud Computing

Mon Apr 22, 2013

TeleRead

App Review: Goodreads for iOS and Android

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.

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BroadwayWorld.com

NetHosting Releases Case Study on Book Recommendations from Goodreads

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

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Sun Apr 21, 2013

Wall St. Cheat Sheet

Did Amazon Outsmart Apple on This Deal?

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.

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Related Topix: Amazon, Apple, Startups

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