Goodreads
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Type of site | Book |
|---|---|
| Available in | English |
| Owner | Amazon |
| Created by | Otis Chandler Elizabeth Khuri |
| Website | www.goodreads.com |
Alexa rank |  378 (October 2018[update])[1] |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Free |
| Launched | December 2006 (2006-12) |
| Current status | Active |
Goodreads is a "social cataloging" website that allows individuals to freely search its database of books, annotations, 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 San Francisco.[2] The company is owned by the online retailer Amazon.
Goodreads was founded in December 2006 and launched in January 2007 by Otis Chandler, a software engineer and entrepreneur, and Elizabeth Khuri.[3][4] The website grew rapidly in popularity after being launched. In December 2007, the site had over 650,000 members[5] and over 10,000,000 books had been added.[6] By July 2012, the site reported 10 million members, 20 million monthly visits, and 30 employees.[7] On July 23, 2013, it was announced on their website that the user base had grown to 20 million members, having doubled in close to 11 months.[8] On March 28, 2013, Amazon announced its acquisition of Goodreads.[9]
Contents
1 History
2 Features
2.1 Book discovery
2.2 Content access
2.3 User interaction
3 Catalog data
3.1 Amazon requirements controversy
4 Competition and review fairness
5 Goodreads Choice Awards
5.1 Winners
5.2 Multiple wins
6 See also
7 References
8 Bibliography
9 External links
History
The Chandlers created Goodreads in 2006. Goodreads' stated mission is "to help people find and share books they love ... [and] to improve the process of reading and learning throughout the world."[4] Goodreads also addressed "what publishers call the 'discoverability' problem" by guiding consumers in the digital age to find books they might want to read.[10]
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 angel investors.[6] This funding lasted Goodreads until 2009, when Goodreads received two million dollars from True Ventures.[11] In October 2010 the company opened its application programming interface, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles.[12] Goodreads also received a small commission when a user clicks over from its site to an online bookseller and makes a purchase.[3]
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."[3][13] 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.[3][13] Later that year, Goodreads introduced an algorithm to suggest books to registered users and had over five million members.[14]The New Yorker's Macy Halford noted that the algorithm wasn't 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."[15]
In October 2012, Goodreads announced it had grown to 11 million members with 395 million books catalogued and over 20,000 book clubs created by its users.[16] A month later, in November 2012, Goodreads had surpassed 12 million members, with the member base having doubled in one year.[17]
In March 2013, Amazon made an agreement to acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of 2013 for an undisclosed sum.[18][19][20] In September 2013, Goodreads announced it would delete, without warning, reviews that mention the behavior of an author or threats against an author.[21]
In January 2016, Amazon announced that it would shut down Shelfari (a competitor previously acquired by Amazon) in favor of Goodreads effective March 16, 2016. Users were offered the ability to export data and migrate accounts.[22][better source needed]
In April 2016, Goodreads announced that over 50 million user reviews had been posted.[23]
Features
Book discovery
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.[24] 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.[25]
Content access
Goodreads users can read or listen to a preview of a book on the website using Kindle Cloud Reader and Audible.[26] 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.[27] Goodreads organizes offline opportunities as well, such as IRL book exchanges and "literary pub crawls".[28]
User interaction
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.[29] By 2011, "seventeen thousand authors, including James Patterson and Margaret Atwood" used Goodreads to advertise.[3]
Additionally, Goodreads has a presence on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, and other social networking sites.[30][31][32] 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. This constant linkage from Goodreads to other social networking sites keeps information flowing and connectivity continuous.[33]
The Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (version 2) and Kindle Voyage feature integration with Goodreads' social network via a user interface button.[34]
Catalog data
Book catalog data was seeded with large imports from various closed and open data sources, including individual publishers, Ingram,[35] Amazon (before 2012 and after 2013),[36][37]Worldcat and the Library of Congress.[38]
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.[39] Goodreads librarians coordinate on the Goodreads Librarian Group.[40]
User data becomes proprietary to Goodreads[41] though available via an application programming interface, or API,[42] unlike similar projects like The Open Library which publish the catalog and user edits as open data.
Amazon requirements controversy
In January 2012, Goodreads switched from using Amazon's public Product Advertising API for book metadata (such as title, author, and number of pages) to book wholesaler Ingram.[43] Goodreads felt Amazon's requirements for using its API were too restrictive, and the combination of Ingram, the Library of Congress, 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.[43] In May 2013, as a result of Goodreads' acquisition by Amazon, Goodreads began using Amazon's data again.[44]
Competition and review fairness
In 2012, a reviewer wrote a poor review of a novel. The author and publisher discussed publicly on Twitter how to "knock it off" the front page of the novel's Goodreads page. This sparked a furor about the relationship between authors and reviewers on Goodreads.[45] Also in 2012, Goodreads received criticism from users about the availability and tone of reviews posted on the site;[46] 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.[47] Later, new owner Amazon reiterated the policy and augmented it to include deletion of any review containing "an ad hominem attack or an off-topic comment".[48] Several news sources reported the announcement, noting Amazon's business reasons for the move:
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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.
— Mercy Pilkington, Good E-Reader News[49]
Regarding the 2013 Amazon acquisition of Goodreads, the New York Times said, "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".[50] Some authors, however, believe the purchase means that the "best place to discuss books is joining up with the best place to buy books".[50]
Goodreads Choice Awards
The Goodreads Choice Awards is a yearly award program, first launched on Goodreads in 2009. Users are able to vote for the books that Goodreads has nominated and are also able to nominate books of their choosing, released in the given year. The majority of books that Goodreads itself nominates are from Goodreads authors. The final voting round collects the top 10 books from 20 different categories.[51]
Winners
| Category | 2009[52] | 2010[53] | 2011[54] | 2012[55] | 2013[56] | 2014[57] | 2015[58] | 2016[59] | 2017[60] | 2018[61] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Best of the Best | Angie Thomas (Best Debut Author 2017 for The Hate U Give) | |||||||||
| Best Fiction | The Help by Kathryn Stockett | Room by Emma Donoghue | 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami | The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling | And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini | Landline by Rainbow Rowell | Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee | Truly Madly Guilty by Liane Moriarty | Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng | Still Me by Jojo Moyes |
| Best Non-fiction | Columbine by Dave Cullen | The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot | The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth by Alexandra Robbins | Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain | The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin & Richard Panek | The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan | Modern Romance: An Investigation by Aziz Ansari & Eric Klinenberg | Hamilton: The Revolution by Lin-Manuel Miranda & Jeremy McCarter | How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life by Lilly Singh | I'll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara |
| Best Mystery & Thriller | The Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson | The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson | Smokin' Seventeen by Janet Evanovich | Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn | Inferno by Dan Brown | Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King | The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins | End of Watch by Stephen King | Into the Water by Paula Hawkins | The Outsider by Stephen King |
| Best Fantasy | Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris | Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson | A Dance with Dragons by George R. R. Martin | The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole by Stephen King | The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman | The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness | Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances by Neil Gaiman | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child by J. K. Rowling | Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay by J. K. Rowling | Circe by Madeline Miller |
| Best Science Fiction | Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld | Feed by Mira Grant | 11/22/63 by Stephen King | The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett & Stephen Baxter | MaddAddam by Margaret Atwood | The Martian by Andy Weir | Golden Son by Pierce Brown | Morning Star by Pierce Brown | Artemis by Andy Weir | Vengeful by VE Schwab |
| Best Chick Lit | The Last Song by Nicholas Sparks | |||||||||
| Best Romance | An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon | Lover Mine by J. R. Ward | Lover Unleashed by J. R. Ward | Fifty Shades Freed by E. L. James | Lover at Last by J. R. Ward | Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon | Confess by Colleen Hoover | It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover | Without Merit by Colleen Hoover | The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang |
| Best Young Adult Fiction | Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen | Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver | Where She Went by Gayle Forman | The Fault in Our Stars by John Green | Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell | We Were Liars by E. Lockhart | All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven | Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys | The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli |
| Best Young Adult Series | Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | |||||||||
| Best Graphic Novel(& Comics from 2011) | Batman: Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? by Neil Gaiman | Twilight: The Graphic Novel by Stephenie Meyer | Vampire Academy: The Graphic Novel by Richelle Mead | The Walking Dead Vol. 16: A Larger World by Robert Kirkman | Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl and artist Cassandra Jean | Serenity: Leaves on the Wind by Zack Whedon, Fábio Moon and Daniel Dos Santos | Saga - Volume Four by Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples | Adulthood is a Myth by Sarah Andersen | Big Mushy Happy Lump by Sarah Andersen | Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen |
| Best Children's (& Middle Grade from 2010) | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Ugly Truth by Jeff Kinney | The Son of Neptune by Rick Riordan | The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan | The House of Hades by Rick Riordan | The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan | The Sword of Summer by Rick Riordan | The Trials of Apollo by Rick Riordan | The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan | The Burning Maze by Rick Riordan |
| Best Picture Book | Blueberry Girl by Neil Gaiman | It's a Book by Lane Smith | When I Grow Up by "Weird Al" Yankovic | Olivia and the Fairy Princesses by Ian Falconer | The Day the Crayons Quit by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | The Pigeon Needs a Bath! (I Do Not!) by Mo Willems | The Day the Crayons Came Home by Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | The Thank You Book by Mo Willems | We're All Wonders by R. J. Palacio | I Am Enough by Grace Byers |
| Best Paranormal Fantasy | Dead in the Family by Charlaine Harris | Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning | Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness | Cold Days by Jim Butcher | ||||||
| Best Historical Fiction | Fall of Giants by Ken Follett | The Paris Wife by Paula McLain | The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman | Life After Life by Kate Atkinson | All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr | The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah | The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead | Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate | The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah | |
| Best Poetry | Come On All You Ghosts by Matthew Zapruder | Horoscopes for the Dead by Billy Collins | A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver | The Fall of Arthur by J. R. R. Tolkien | Lullabies by Lang Leav | The Dogs I Have Kissed by Trista Mateer | The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace | The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur | The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace | |
| Best History & Biography | The Tudors by G. J. Meyer | Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson | Jim Henson: The Biography by Brian Jay Jones | The Romanov Sisters by Helen Rappaport | Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson | Leonard: My Fifty-Year Friendship with a Remarkable Man, by William Shatner | The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore | The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King | ||
| Best Memoir & Autobiography | Unbearable Lightness by Portia de Rossi | Two Kisses for Maddy: A Memoir of Loss and Love by Matthew Logelin | Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed | I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai | This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl | A Work in Progress by Connor Franta | When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi | What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton | Educated by Tara Westover | |
| Best Humor | Bite Me: A Love Story by Christopher Moore | Bossypants by Tina Fey | Let's Pretend This Never Happened by Jenny Lawson | Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh | Yes Please by Amy Poehler | Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling | The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo by Amy Schumer | Talking as Fast as I Can: From Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham | The Last Black Unicorn by Tiffany Haddish | |
| Best Young Adult Fantasy (& Science Fiction from 2011) | Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins | Divergent by Veronica Roth | Insurgent by Veronica Roth | Allegiant by Veronica Roth | City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare | Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas | A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas | Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas | |
| Best (Goodreads) Debut Author | Rebecca Skloot (The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks) | Emma Chase (Tangled) | Pierce Brown (Red Rising) | Victoria Aveyard (Red Queen) | Alwyn Hamilton (Rebel of the Sands) | Angie Thomas (The Hate U Give) | Tomi Adeyemi (Children of Blood and Bone) | |||
| Best Cover Art | Torment by Lauren Kate | |||||||||
| Best Horror | Graveminder by Melissa Marr | The Twelve by Justin Cronin | Doctor Sleep by Stephen King | Prince Lestat by Anne Rice | Saint Odd by Dean Koontz | The Fireman by Joe Hill | Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King | Elevation by Stephen King | ||
| Best Food & Cooking | My Father's Daughter by Gwyneth Paltrow | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl by Ree Drummond | Tequila Mockingbird: Cocktails with a Literary Twist by Tim Federle | Make It Ahead: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinnertime by Ree Drummond | Cravings by Chrissy Teigen | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It! by Ree Drummond | Cravings: Hungry for More by Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman | ||
| Best Travel & Outdoors | Little Princes: One Man's Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal by Conor Grennan | |||||||||
| Best Goodreads Author | Cassandra Clare (City of Fallen Angels) | Veronica Roth (Insurgent) | ||||||||
| Best Business | #GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso | |||||||||
| Best Science & Technology | Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish by John Hargrove | Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans De Waal | Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson | The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte |
Multiple wins
Several authors have won multiple Goodreads Readers Choice Awards or the same award in multiple years. The table below sets out those authors to have won more than one award:
(Listed by number of wins, then alphabetically by surname)
| Number of wins | Author | Winning categories |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Stephen King | Best Science Fiction (2011), Best Fantasy (2012), Best Horror (2013, 2017, 2018), Best Mystery & Thriller (2014, 2016, 2018) |
Rick Riordan | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) | |
| 5 | Veronica Roth | Best Book (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2011, 2012, 2013), Best Goodreads Author (2012) |
| 4 | Suzanne Collins | Best Book (2009, 2010), Best Young Adult Series (2009), Best Young Adult Fantasy (2011) |
Neil Gaiman | Best Fantasy (2013, 2015), Best Graphic Novel (2009), Best Picture Book (2009) | |
Sarah J. Maas | Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018) | |
| 3 | Sarah Andersen | Best Graphic Novel and Comics (2016, 2017, 2018) |
Pierce Brown | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2014), Best Science Fiction (2015, 2016) | |
Ree Drummond | Best Food & Cooking (2012, 2015, 2017) | |
Colleen Hoover | Best Romance (2015, 2016, 2017) | |
J. K. Rowling | Best Fiction (2012), Best Fantasy (2016, 2017) | |
Angie Thomas | Best Goodreads Debut Author (2017), Best Young Adult Fiction (2017), Best of the Best (2018) | |
J. R. Ward | Best Romance (2010, 2011, 2013) | |
| 2 | Cassandra Clare | Best Goodreads Author (2011), Best Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction (2014), |
Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers | Best Picture Book (2013, 2015) | |
Diana Gabaldon | Best Romance (2009, 2014) | |
Kristin Hannah | Best Historical Fiction (2015, 2018) | |
Deborah Harkness | Best Paranormal Fantasy (2012), Best Fantasy (2014) | |
Charlaine Harris | Best Fantasy (2009), Best Paranormal Fantasy (2010) | |
Paula Hawkins | Best Mystery & Thriller (2015, 2017) | |
Jeff Kinney | Best Children's & Middle Grade (2009, 2010) | |
Stieg Larsson | Best Mystery & Thriller (2009, 2010) | |
Amanda Lovelace | Best Poetry (2016, 2018) | |
Rainbow Rowell | Best Fiction (2014), Best Young Adult Fiction (2013) | |
Rebecca Skloot | Best Non-fiction (2010), Best Debut Author (2010) | |
Chrissy Teigen and Adeena Sussman | Best Food & Cooking (2016, 2018) | |
Andy Weir | Best Science Fiction (2014, 2017) | |
Mo Willems | Best Picture Book (2014, 2016) |
See also
- aNobii
- BookArmy
- Bookish
- douban
- iDreamBooks
Library 2.0 the concept behind Goodreads and similar sites- LibraryThing
- Readgeek
- Shelfari
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