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At Publishers Launch at the Frankfurt Book Fair this week, Goodreads founder Otis Chandler gave a presentation about growth at the social network for books. We’ve embedded the complete slide show above…
Among the different stats, Chandler noted that Goodreads now counts more than 900,000 book reviews and over 950,000 quotes from readers’ favorite books. Amazon acquired Goodreads earlier this year, integrating the network with a new app. Here are a few features:
With the new Goodreads integration on the new Kindle Fires unveiled by Amazon today, you will be able to: see what your Goodreads friends are reading, share highlights and notes as you read, track the books you read and want to read and build your shelves, read reviews from your friends and from the Goodreads community, rate and review books and import Amazon-purchased books to your Goodreads shelves.
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The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling set a Goodreads record for the all-time biggest “started reading” day. Currently, more than 40,000 people have marked the book “to-read.”
The book unseated Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins as the book with the strongest “started reading” day. Insurgent by Veronica Roth holds third place. As of this writing, The Casual Vacancy has 38 percent five-star ratings on Goodreads.
Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler had this statement: “The Casual Vacancy is one of those stand-out books where people not only pre-order it, they start reading it as soon as they get their hands on it. On Goodreads, it beat the record for our previous all-time ‘started reading’ day which was set by Mockingjay.”
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Goodreads has tapped its six million members to create a new book recommendation engine, analyzing reader opinions about 190 million books stored on their digital shelves.
CEO Otis Chandler explained in the release: “No one has been able to provide recommendations like this before. This is the first time a community of readers of this size has collectively shared their literary likes and dislikes … It gives us data that no one else has. For example, we have more than 174,000 ratings of the best-selling ‘The Help’ while Amazon only has around 4,400.”
To test the recommendations, simply share visit this link–you must rate at least 20 books to get an accurate reading of your literary tastes. The new feature relies on a collection of secret algorithms to predict what kind of books a new reader will enjoy.
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One of the programs I wasn't able to attend at ALA was Booklist's Everyone's a Critic: The Future of Book Reviewing program, with Jennifer Hubert Swan of Reading Rants, along with Ron Charles of The Washington Post Book World, Otis Chandler of Good Reads and Jon Fine of Amazon.
Jen has been doing online book reviewing (what we call book blogging) since 1998.
Yes. 1998.
The program is available to listen to at Booklist online, along with the PowerPoint and handout of the panelist's trusted review sources.* Who is one of Jen's review sources? ME. I am so amazed because Jen is the Original Rock Star of online book reviews so, yes, WOW. Thank you, Jen!
This panel talks about traditional print reviewing as well as blogging. Good Reads, Amazon reviews, etc are also discussed. So go and listen!
*Which I have had trouble printing out. Any suggestions?
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