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Friday, March 29. 2013

Amazon buys Goodreads

Scott Turow on Amazon/Goodreads: This is how modern monopolies can be built.


Smart move by Amazon. A heck of a lot more people read Goodreads than read the NYT Book Review or, God knows, the NY Review of Books or The London Review of Books. I do enjoy the intelligence of the London Review.


People still love books but, with the appealing Teaching Company DVDs, it's tough for me to do more than a book per week.



Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 14:01 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Never heard of GoodReads.
#1 Sam L. on 2013-03-29 16:58 (Reply)
why isn't htis a case for anti-trust?
#2 ns (Link) on 2013-03-29 20:18 (Reply)
On what grounds? The US is full of booksellers, and amateur and professional book reviewers.
#2.1 Bird Dog on 2013-03-30 06:24 (Reply)
It's an OK website - couldn't seem to make heads or tails of it in the times I'd visited. Can't say that many of the reads were good, as they looked to me to be the level of airport gift shop reading.

I have an acquaintance who uses it solely to keep track of books she'd like to read - a sort of electronic TBR pile. She's admitted that the rest of the site is rather useless. Maybe Amazon can make something of it.
#3 KellyM on 2013-03-30 20:44 (Reply)

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