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.

  •  Whimseymimple   ( @Whimseymimple@beehaw.org ) English
    2•1 year ago

    It’s changed over time. You used to get recommendations and other things, but they opened that to everyone fairly recently. Now, we get extra stats and things like that, which is still good to me. I mainly pay to support the development and to allow it to remain available for others who can’t pay.