A prominent author's decision to pull her novel from publication after being "review bombed" highlights Goodreads's power and raises questions about its owner: Amazon.

📚 Time to switch to BookWyrm

EDIT: Fairly incredible that this article should appear on WaPo, which is owned by amazon.

  •  Starya68   ( @Starya68@beehaw.org ) English
    6•1 year ago

    Goodreads has always been bad. I’ve read appalling books (embarrassingly so) that were praised to high heaven by the author’s friends, who would hunt you down if you left a bad review, while authors without fangirls but with good books got fewer stars.