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.

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

    When StoryGraph gets its api (on the roadmap). That’ll be delightful.

    I’m still bummed GoodReads discontinued their official API. (They have an undocumented GraphQL one driving parts of their site you can use. Ish.)

    •  arctic pie (he/him)   ( @arcticpiecitylights@beehaw.org ) English
      3•1 year ago

      I’d be really interested in trying my hand at writing a Python script to scrape by Bookwyrm RSS feed and syncing it to StoryGraph. I truly love BW as my book “home”, but the functionality of SG and its position in the market as a GoodReads enemy that is BIPOC-owned makes me want to also support it too.