Goodreads, Facebook and Twitter: Share What You Read, Rate and Add

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Grin and share it. Goodreads users have the ability to share what they’re reading, rating, and adding on Goodreads with Facebook friends (and Twitter peeps, too) through an app. Interested in partaking? To arrange all this automated sharing, go to the Goodreads website, and click “edit profile” on the drop-down menu beneath your user image [...]

Goodreads Members’ E-reading Devices: E-readers or Tablets?

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Before Amazon announced its plans to purchase Goodreads, I noticed the results of a survey on the Goodreads blog that examined what devices members use to read ebooks. Naturally, Goodreads members don’t just read ebooks on Kindles and other devices that are specifically e-readers. The blog points to a New York Times article (http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/e-book-reader-tablets-cannibalized/) that [...]

Breaking News: Amazon to Acquire Goodreads

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TGIF, WG2E-Land!!! Got some Breaking News for ya… Yesterday afternoon, I got an email from one of Amazon’s PR Peeps letting me know that Amazon has acquired Goodreads! Wow, right?! Here’s the official Amazon Press Release: Amazon.com to acquire Goodreads I luuuvvved this quote from the article: “I just found out my two favorite people [...]

Authors: What Do You Do When a Reader Asks You For a Free Copy of Your Book?

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I’ve blogged before about giving away books on Goodreads (http://thewritersguidetoepublishing.com/goodreads-giveaways-part-one). But I recently heard a couple different authors mention that they’ve been contacted by Goodreads members following a giveaway. The readers, even though they didn’t win the giveaway, are asking for a free book copy. About Goodreads giveaways: The site allows authors to give away [...]

How To Use Goodreads…as a Reader

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I’ve gotten a few requests to go over the basics of Goodreads, how to use the site. Using the site as a reader will help you understand how to use it better as an author, also. Goodreads is a site that’s all about readers – readers sharing what books they like and don’t like, readers [...]