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Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network | Internet & Media - CNET News: Amazon scoops up Goodreads social network

The giant Web retailer pays an undisclosed amount to acquire the book-reading social network.

by Jay Greene
March 28, 2013 1:41 PM PDT


Amazon agreed today to buy book-recommendation site Goodreads for an undisclosed amount.

The San Francisco-based company should provide Amazon with another way to get readers to buy books from it, both digitally and from its warehouses. Amazon said it also plans to use Goodreads to help authors find readers who might not otherwise know about them. Read more....

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Goodreads.com Is Growing as a Popular Book Site - NYTimes.com

Goodreads.com Is Growing as a Popular Book Site - NYTimes.com

By LESLIE KAUFMAN

Published: February 12, 2013

Goodreads.com has grown to 15 million members. 

 Lori Hettler is a passionate reader, tearing through about 80 books a year. But as a resident of a Pennsylvania town and with a preference for fiction from small publishers, she can have trouble finding new books to feed her habit.

She tried to start a book club, but there weren’t enough takers. For years she made a weekly trip to browse a bookstore 40 minutes away in a Scranton suburb.

But then she found a solution to her problem: Goodreads.com, a social media site for finding and sharing titles that has 15 million members, is exploding in popularity and rivaling Amazon.com as a platform for promoting new books. Read more...

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