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access</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Content_access-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-End-of-year_reading_review" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#End-of-year_reading_review"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>End-of-year reading review</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-End-of-year_reading_review-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-User_interaction" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#User_interaction"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>User interaction</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-User_interaction-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Catalog_data" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Catalog_data"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Catalog data</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Catalog_data-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Catalog data subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Catalog_data-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Metadata_source_change" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Metadata_source_change"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3.1</span> <span>Metadata source change</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Metadata_source_change-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Competition_and_review_fairness" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Competition_and_review_fairness"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>Competition and review fairness</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Competition_and_review_fairness-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Goodreads_Choice_Awards" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Goodreads_Choice_Awards"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Goodreads Choice Awards</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Goodreads_Choice_Awards-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Criticism" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Criticism"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Criticism</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Criticism-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Criticism subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Criticism-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Review_bombing" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Review_bombing"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Review bombing</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Review_bombing-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Fraudulent_books" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Fraudulent_books"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Fraudulent books</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Fraudulent_books-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Bibliography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Bibliography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Bibliography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Bibliography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul 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href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%97%E0%A7%81%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%B0%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%A1%E0%A6%B8" title="গুডরিডস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="গুডরিডস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DA%AF%D9%88%D8%AF%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AF%D8%B2" title="گودریدز – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="گودریدز" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%B5%BF%EB%A6%AC%EC%A6%88" title="굿리즈 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="굿리즈" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%97%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%A1%E0%A4%B0%E0%A5%80%E0%A4%A1%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%B8" title="गुडरीड्स – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="गुडरीड्स" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%B2" title="جود ريدز – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="جود ريدز" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodreads" title="Goodreads – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Goodreads" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" 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(company)">Amazon</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Organizational_founder" title="Organizational founder">Founder(s)</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Otis Chandler</li><li>Elizabeth Khuri</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">URL</th><td class="infobox-data url"><span class="url"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.goodreads.com">www<wbr />.goodreads<wbr />.com</a></span> <span class="mw-valign-text-top noprint" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2359213#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" 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cataloging</a> website and a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that allows individuals to search its database of books, annotations, quotes, and reviews. Users can sign up and register books to generate library catalogs and reading lists. They can also create their own groups of book suggestions, surveys, polls, blogs, and discussions. The website's offices are located in <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco" title="San Francisco">San Francisco</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Miller_2011_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller_2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In December 2007, the site had 650,000 members<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and 10,000,000 books had been added.<sup id="cite_ref-TCAngel_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCAngel-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and thirty employees.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and by July 23, 2013, Goodreads announced their user base had grown to 20 million members.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By September 2023, the site had more than 150 million members.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Founders">Founders</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Founders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Otis_Chandler.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Otis_Chandler.jpg/220px-Otis_Chandler.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Otis_Chandler.jpg/330px-Otis_Chandler.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Otis_Chandler.jpg/440px-Otis_Chandler.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1069" /></a><figcaption>Otis Chandler</figcaption></figure> <p>Goodreads founders Otis Chandler and Elizabeth Khuri Chandler first met while studying at Stanford (Engineering and English respectively). After university Chandler initially worked as a programmer in on-line businesses,<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including dating sites,<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Khuri Chandler as a journalist.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Chandler and Khuri both grew up in California. Chandler is a descendant of the publisher of the <i><a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times" title="Los Angeles Times">Los Angeles Times</a></i>, <a href="/wiki/Otis_Chandler" title="Otis Chandler">Otis Chandler</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foundation_and_mission">Foundation and mission</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Foundation and mission"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Goodreads was founded in 2006. The idea came about when Otis Chandler was browsing through his friend's bookshelf. He wanted to integrate this scanning experience and to create a space where people could write reviews regarding the books that they read.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Goodreads addressed what publishers call the "<a href="/wiki/Discoverability" title="Discoverability">discoverability</a> problem" by guiding consumers in the digital age to find books they might want to read.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_years">Early years</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Early years"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Before gaining much traction, Otis and Elizabeth Chandler grew the platform through their friends of friends where it reached 800 users. Eventually, it gained attention through the media such as <a href="/wiki/Mashable" title="Mashable">Mashable</a> and other various blogs.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During its first year of business, the company was run without any formal funding. In December 2007, the site received funding estimated at $750,000 from <a href="/wiki/Angel_investors" class="mw-redirect" title="Angel investors">angel investors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-TCAngel_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TCAngel-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2010, the company opened its <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interface</a>, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2011, Goodreads acquired Discovereads, a book recommendation engine that employs "machine learning algorithms to analyze which books people might like, based on books they've liked in the past and books that people with similar tastes have liked."<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_2011_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller_2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hopkins1_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hopkins1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After a user has rated 20 books on its five-star scale, the site will begin making recommendations. Otis Chandler believed this rating system would be superior to Amazon's, as Amazon's includes books a user has browsed or purchased as gifts when determining its recommendations.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_2011_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller_2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-hopkins1_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hopkins1-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that year, Goodreads introduced an algorithm to suggest books to registered users and had over five million members.<sup id="cite_ref-usatoday_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-usatoday-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Yorker" title="The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></i><span class="nowrap" style="padding-left:0.1em;">'</span>s Macy Halford noted that the algorithm was not perfect, as the number of books needed to create a perfect recommendation system is so large that "by the time I'd got halfway there, my reading preferences would have changed and I'd have to start over again."<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As of 2012, membership was required to use but free.<sup id="cite_ref-BD_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BD-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In October 2012, Goodreads announced it had grown to 11 million members with 395 million books cataloged and over 20,000 book clubs created by its users.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A month later, in November 2012, Goodreads had surpassed 12 million members, with the member base having doubled in one year.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2013_acquisition_by_Amazon">2013 acquisition by Amazon</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 2013 acquisition by Amazon"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In March 2013, Amazon made an agreement to acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of 2013 for an undisclosed sum.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amazon had previously purchased the competitor <a href="/wiki/Shelfari" title="Shelfari">Shelfari</a> in 2008,<sup id="cite_ref-BB_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BB-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with the Goodreads purchase "stunning" the book industry. The <a href="/wiki/Authors_Guild" title="Authors Guild">Authors Guild</a> called it a "truly devastating act of vertical integration" and that Amazon's "control of online bookselling approaches the insurmountable." There were mixed reactions from Goodreads users, at the time totaling 16 million members.<sup id="cite_ref-BC_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BC-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodreads founder Otis Chandler said that "his management team would remain in place to guard the reviewing process" with the acquisition. Chandler continued running Goodreads until 2019. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> noted that Goodreads, at the time of the acquisition, had a more reputable reviewing system than Amazon's.<sup id="cite_ref-CD_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CD-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Noting that some authors had been "too aggressive in their self-promotion" (as Goodreads admitted in an email) and that some readers had responded with aggression,<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in September 2013, Goodreads announced it would delete, without warning, reviews that threatened authors or mentioned authors' behavior.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As of April 2020, the site's guidelines still state that "reviews that are predominantly about an author's behavior and not about the book will be deleted."<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2014–2019"><span id="2014.E2.80.932019"></span>2014–2019</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2014–2019"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2016, Amazon announced that it would shut down Shelfari in favor of Goodreads, effective March 16, 2016. Users were offered the ability to export data and migrate accounts.<sup id="cite_ref-AmazonKillsShelfari_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AmazonKillsShelfari-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template noprint noexcerpt Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:NOTRS" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:NOTRS"><span title="This claim needs references to better sources. (November 2017)">better source needed</span></a></i>]</sup> In April 2016, Goodreads announced that over 50 million user reviews had been posted to the website.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Features">Features</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Features"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Book_discovery">Book discovery</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Book discovery"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the Goodreads website, users can add books to their personal bookshelves, rate and review books, see what their friends and authors are reading, participate in discussion boards and groups on a variety of topics, and get suggestions for future reading choices based on their reviews of previously read books.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Once users have added friends to their profile, they will see their friends' shelves and reviews and can comment on friends' pages. Goodreads features a rating system of one to five stars, with the option of accompanying the rating with a written review. The site provides default bookshelves—read, currently-reading, to-read—and the opportunity to create customized shelves to categorize a user's books.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Reading_challenges">Reading challenges</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Reading challenges"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A popular phenomenon on the site is the so-called reading challenge, where users commit to reading a certain number of books per year and track their progress through the platform. Recent research in literacy studies shows that such challenges encourage participants to read more in their free time.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Content_access">Content access</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Content access"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Goodreads users can read or listen to a preview of a book on the website using Kindle Cloud Reader and Audible.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodreads also offers quizzes and trivia, quotations, book lists, and free giveaways. Members can receive the regular newsletter featuring new books, suggestions, author interviews, and poetry. If a user has written a work, the work can be linked on the author's profile page, which also includes an author's blog.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodreads organizes offline opportunities as well, such as in-person book exchanges and "literary pub crawls".<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="End-of-year_reading_review">End-of-year reading review</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: End-of-year reading review"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Goodreads offers a "My Year in Books" report in which a user can review their reading history from the prior year. The Goodreads tradition, created by Fionnuala Lirsdottir in 2014, encourages users to reflect on their past reading, by offering statistic of the number of pages read; the number of books read; the user's average book length and their average ratings.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="User_interaction">User interaction</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: User interaction"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The website facilitates reader interactions with authors through the interviews, giveaways, authors' blogs, and profile information. There is also a special section for authors with suggestions for promoting their works on Goodreads.com, aimed at helping them reach their target audience.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By 2011, "seventeen thousand authors, including <a href="/wiki/James_Patterson" title="James Patterson">James Patterson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Atwood" title="Margaret Atwood">Margaret Atwood</a>" used Goodreads to advertise.<sup id="cite_ref-Miller_2011_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Miller_2011-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Users can add each other as "friends", enabling them to share reviews, posts, book recommendations, and messages. </p><p>Goodreads has a presence on <a href="/wiki/Facebook" title="Facebook">Facebook</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pinterest" title="Pinterest">Pinterest</a>, <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">Twitter</a>, and other social networking sites.<sup id="cite_ref-techcrunch1_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techcrunch1-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Linking a Goodreads account with a social networking account like Facebook enables the ability to import contacts from the social networking account to Goodreads, expanding one's Goodreads "Friends" list. There are settings available, as well, to allow Goodreads to post straight to a social networking account, which informs, e.g., Facebook friends, what one is reading or how one rated a book.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Kindle" title="Amazon Kindle">Amazon Kindle</a> Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catalog_data">Catalog data</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Catalog data"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Book catalog data was seeded with large imports from various closed and open data sources, including individual publishers, <a href="/wiki/Ingram_Content_Group" title="Ingram Content Group">Ingram</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Amazon (before 2012 and after 2013),<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/WorldCat" title="WorldCat">WorldCat</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Goodreads librarians improve book information on the website, including editing book and author information and adding cover images. Goodreads members can apply to become volunteer librarians after they have 50 books on their profile.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodreads librarians coordinate on the Goodreads Librarian Group.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>User data becomes proprietary to Goodreads<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though available via an <a href="/wiki/Application_programming_interface" class="mw-redirect" title="Application programming interface">application programming interface</a>, or API,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> unlike similar projects like <a href="/wiki/The_Open_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="The Open Library">The Open Library</a> which publish the catalog and user edits as <a href="/wiki/Open_data" title="Open data">open data</a>. In December 2020, Goodreads deactivated API keys more than 30 days old and said it would no longer be issuing new API keys.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Metadata_source_change">Metadata source change</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Metadata source change"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In January 2012, Goodreads switched from using Amazon's public Product Advertising API for book <a href="/wiki/Metadata" title="Metadata">metadata</a> (such as title, author, and number of pages) to book wholesaler Ingram. Goodreads felt Amazon's requirements for using its API were too restrictive, and the combination of Ingram, the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a>, and other sources would be more flexible. Some users worried that their reading records would be lost, but Goodreads had a number of plans in place to ease the transition and ensure that no data was lost, even for titles that might be in danger of deletion because they were available only through Amazon, such as Kindle editions and self-published works on Amazon.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2013, as a result of Goodreads' acquisition by <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a>, Goodreads began using Amazon's data again.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Competition_and_review_fairness">Competition and review fairness</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Competition and review fairness"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2012, after a receiving a poor review on her novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Selection" title="The Selection">The Selection</a></i>, author <a href="/wiki/Kiera_Cass" title="Kiera Cass">Kiera Cass</a> encouraged her Twitter followers to "knock [the review] off" the front page of Goodreads' section on the book. This sparked public outrage and started a discussion on the relationship between authors and reviewers on Goodreads.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That same year, Goodreads received criticism from users about the availability and tone of reviews posted on the site,<sup id="cite_ref-SALON_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SALON-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with some users and websites stating that certain reviewers were harassing and encouraging attacks on authors. Goodreads publicly posted its review guidelines in August 2012 to address these issues.<sup id="cite_ref-Reviewguidelines_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reviewguidelines-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Amazon's acquisition of Goodreads, this policy was modified to include deletion of any review containing "an ad hominem attack or an off-topic comment".<sup id="cite_ref-Announcements_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Announcements-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several news sources reported the announcement, noting Amazon's business reasons for the move: </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Where authors were threatening a mass account cancellation to protest the bullying, many of the reader users who commented on the announcement are now threatening the same thing. And while much of this might seem like nothing more than petty playground behavior between children who honestly do not have a clear good guy or bad guy, keep in mind that several e-book retailers incorporate the Goodreads' API into their sales pages, effectively posting book reviews that many in the Goodreads community know to be false, and nothing more than an act of revenge against an author; real-world sales decisions have been made by consumers based on these reviews.</p><div class="templatequotecite">— <cite>Mercy Pilkington, Good E-Reader News<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></cite></div></blockquote> <p>Regarding the 2013 Amazon acquisition of Goodreads, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> said that: "Goodreads was a rival to Amazon as a place for discovering books" and that this deal "consolidates Amazon's power to determine which authors get exposure for their work".<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Goodreads_Choice_Awards">Goodreads Choice Awards</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Goodreads Choice Awards"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Goodreads_Choice_Awards" title="Goodreads Choice Awards">Goodreads Choice Awards</a></div> <p>The <b>Goodreads Choice Awards</b> is a yearly award program, first launched on <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Goodreads</a> in 2009. </p><p>Winners are determined by <a href="/wiki/Crowdvoting" class="mw-redirect" title="Crowdvoting">users voting</a> on books that Goodreads has nominated or books of their choosing, released in the given year. Most books that Goodreads nominates are from verified Goodreads authors. The final voting round collects the top 10 books from 20 different categories.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Criticism">Criticism</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Criticism"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Critics have assailed Goodreads' lack of development and maintenance, coupled with its dominant position in the book-review marketplace.<sup id="cite_ref-Manavis_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manavis-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, Goodreads' <a href="/wiki/Recommendation_algorithm" class="mw-redirect" title="Recommendation algorithm">recommendation algorithm</a> was increasingly seen as primitive.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Manavis_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manavis-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/The_StoryGraph" title="The StoryGraph">The StoryGraph</a> was established in 2019 as a competitor to Goodreads.<sup id="cite_ref-Manavis_70-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Manavis-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Review_bombing">Review bombing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Review bombing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Goodreads' review system is more easily "gamed" than other online book-review platforms, although Goodreads remains by far the most popular website for book reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> does not allow reviews to be posted for most books that have not yet been released, and Amazon book reviews indicate whether the user leaving the review purchased the book.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By contrast, any registered user on Goodreads (which Amazon purchased for $150 million in 2013) may rate or review a book, even before publication,<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and even without receiving an <a href="/wiki/Advance_copy" title="Advance copy">advance copy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Goodreads' system, as well as lax <a href="/wiki/Content_moderation" title="Content moderation">content moderation</a>, has been criticized.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The moderation system is manual and faces a backlog of flagged reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Manipulative reviews ("<a href="/wiki/Review_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="Review bombing">review bombing</a>") have occurred, with novels flooded with negative (one-star) reviews, sometimes even before publication.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such "weaponized" reviews<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> have been described as a form of <a href="/wiki/Cyberbullying" title="Cyberbullying">cyberbullying</a> and targeted harassment of authors.<sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Author <a href="/wiki/Gretchen_Felker-Martin" title="Gretchen Felker-Martin">Gretchen Felker-Martin</a>'s debut horror novel, about a <a href="/wiki/Trans_woman" title="Trans woman">trans woman</a>, was review-bombed in what she suspected to be an organized campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Young_adult_fiction" class="mw-redirect" title="Young adult fiction">Young adult fiction</a> authors Keira Drake and Amélie Wen Zhao delayed publication of their fantasy novels after facing a tsunami of criticism on Twitter and Goodreads from users who deemed their fantasy universes to be racially insensitive.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Gilbert" title="Elizabeth Gilbert">Elizabeth Gilbert</a>, the author of <i><a href="/wiki/Eat,_Pray,_Love" title="Eat, Pray, Love">Eat, Pray, Love</a></i>, was flooded with negative ratings on Goodreads for her not-yet-published novel <i>The Snow Forest</i> from users who objected to its setting in 1930s Russia.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Cecilia_Rabess&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cecilia Rabess (page does not exist)">Cecilia Rabess</a>, a Black author, was flooded with negative reviews on Goodreads for her debut novel <i>Everything's Fine</i>, which focuses on a young Black woman who falls in love with a bigoted white fellow employee at <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs">Goldman Sachs</a>; the negative reviewers had not read the work, yet deemed its premise to be racist.<sup id="cite_ref-AlterHarris_73-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AlterHarris-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some scammers and cyberstalkers have used "review bombing" threats as part of <a href="/wiki/Extortion" title="Extortion">extortion</a> campaigns, threatening to flood a work with poor reviews unless an author pays.<sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-O'Donovan_71-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-O'Donovan-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Goodreads said in 2021 that it takes "swift action to remove users when we determine that they violate our guidelines" and were developing technology to "prevent bad actor behavior and inauthentic reviews in order to better safeguard our community."<sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, authors have criticized the website's lax moderation; fantasy novelist <a href="/wiki/Rin_Chupeco" title="Rin Chupeco">Rin Chupeco</a> has noted that authors from marginalized groups are often a target, saying that Goodreads only enforces its rules against reviews that specifically target "the authors with big enough marketing and publicity teams to demand these removals."<sup id="cite_ref-McCluskey_74-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-McCluskey-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Late in 2023 author <a href="/wiki/Cait_Corrain_review_bombing_controversy" title="Cait Corrain review bombing controversy">Cait Corrain</a> was discovered to have created fake accounts that posted negative reviews of authors with upcoming debut novels, many of them women of color. Her publisher, <a href="/wiki/Del_Rey_Books" title="Del Rey Books">Del Rey</a>, cancelled the May 2024 publication of her own upcoming <a href="/wiki/Science_fantasy" title="Science fantasy">science fantasy</a> debut novel, <i>Crown of Starlight</i>; her agent dropped her as a client. After initially denying the documented accusations, she blamed them on a friend and then finally accepted responsibility.<sup id="cite_ref-Cait_Corrigan_WP_story_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cait_Corrigan_WP_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On X (formerly Twitter), she attributed her actions to worsening depression and the attendant alcohol and substance abuse that had recently culminated in a "complete psychological breakdown", saying she would be going into rehab and apologizing profusely to not only those authors she had disparaged but a friend who had defended her initially against the accusations.<sup id="cite_ref-Corrain_tweet_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Corrain_tweet-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of the authors said she needed to do more to make things right.<sup id="cite_ref-Cait_Corrigan_WP_story_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Cait_Corrigan_WP_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fraudulent_books">Fraudulent books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Fraudulent books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Jane Friedman<sup id="cite_ref-janefriedman/books_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-janefriedman/books-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> discovered a 6 listings of books, probably written using AI generative models (<a href="/wiki/Large_language_model" title="Large language model">LLM</a>), fraudulently using her name, on <a href="/wiki/Amazon_(company)" title="Amazon (company)">Amazon</a> and Goodreads. Amazon and Goodreads resisted removing the fraudulent titles until the author's complaints went viral on social media, in a blog post titled "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires)."<sup id="cite_ref-janefriedman/rather-my-books-pirated_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-janefriedman/rather-my-books-pirated-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-arstechnica/2023/08/ai-generated-counterfeit-books-amazon_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arstechnica/2023/08/ai-generated-counterfeit-books-amazon-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-vice/v7b774_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-vice/v7b774-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost/amazon-goodreads_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost/amazon-goodreads-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Goodreads&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 10em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/ANobii" class="mw-redirect" title="ANobii">aNobii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babelio" title="Babelio">Babelio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/BookArmy" title="BookArmy">BookArmy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bookish" title="Bookish">Bookish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douban" title="Douban">douban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/IDreamBooks" title="IDreamBooks">iDreamBooks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LibraryThing" title="LibraryThing">LibraryThing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Library" title="Open Library">Open Library</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Readgeek" title="Readgeek">Readgeek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shelfari" title="Shelfari">Shelfari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_StoryGraph" title="The StoryGraph">The StoryGraph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Library_2.0" title="Library 2.0">Library 2.0</a> the concept behind Goodreads and similar sites</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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