The trend in earlier years toward disrupting existing publishing models with new startups like the now - established Wattpad or the social
reading community Goodreads, since acquired by Amazon, seems to have slowed in 2015.
Not exact matches
Last year when Amazon acquired
Goodreads, an online book
community where people review and discuss books as well as find new books to
read, we knew it was just a matter of time before Amazon started making use of
Goodreads» resources.
Reading community site
Goodreads, as well as the website Book Riot, both maintain a dedicated video section.
Popular reader - centric
community Goodreads shared news this week of a new challenge that asks book lovers — especially those in the younger age ranges — to step out of their «
reading comfort zones» and try something new.
It never received
GoodReads integration to discuss the books you are
reading with the largest
community in the world.
On
Goodreads you can make friends, follow
reading lists, join book clubs, and organically network to create a
community that will put your book onto their «to -
read» bookshelves when it comes out.
Goodreads integration combines the world's largest e-
reading community and the world's largest
community of book lovers — see what your friends are
reading, share highlights, and rate the books you
read
Also «Indie authors are an important part of the
Goodreads community and there are several ways authors can engage with readers on
Goodreads for free, including sharing what you are
reading yourself (Maggie Stiefvater, Rick Riordan, and Roxane Gay are three great examples...» These are NOT indie authors.
Indie authors are an important part of the
Goodreads community and there are several ways authors can engage with readers on
Goodreads for free, including sharing what you are
reading yourself (Maggie Stiefvater, Rick Riordan, and Roxane Gay are three great examples of authors who do this), using our «Ask the Author» feature, and providing additional content about your books with our Kindle Notes & Highlights on
Goodreads feature (see how Emma Chase shared notes on her book, Royally Screwed, which led to some great interactions with her fans — authors should contact our author team if they are interested in doing something like this too).
Built with support for
GoodReads, which is a social
community geared towards discovery and discussion, as well as X-Ray, which is useful for users who juggle multiple titles and forget who specific characters are, Amazon's latest models have made
reading a much more interactive, social experience.
The first is
GoodReads integration, that will allow users to participate in the digital
reading community, rate and review books and talk with their favorite authors.
Social
communities like
GoodReads allow people to share their
reading lists with each other, comment on books they want to
read and develop a public board with all the books they have
read or are in the process of
reading.
He also spoke on the possible correlation between the rise in popularity of ebook review sites like
Goodreads and the involvement in a social
reading community, pointing out that sometimes others» opinions can have an impact on another person's
reading experience.
In this much talked - about infographic from
Goodreads, some of the 19 million members of that book - sharing
community offer interesting comment on why and when they tend to stop
reading — or continue.
Amazon's Fire OS 3.1 software update is now ready for the latest Kindle tablets.Fire OS 3.1 chiefly brings integration with book
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This is available now, for free, and should download and install automatically.The update will bring Kindle FreeTime for personalised profiles for children, the
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Goodreads — the largest of the social
reading communities — are probably why Amazon moved to buy
Goodreads in the first place.
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Reading community sites like
Goodreads are getting smarter and smarter at recommending books, both traditionally and self - published.
This version of the app taps into the
Goodreads community, too, allowing users to learn from friends»
reading habits and rate their own books on an already - established platform.
With social media forums like
Goodreads, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, I belong to numerous writing
communities filled with extremely friendly and helpful writers and readers who are happy to beta -
read.
Healthy beta
reading communities can be found on dedicated sites like
Goodreads, Scribophiles, and Absolute Write.
Goodreads is an online
community where readers gather to discover new titles, rate and review books they've
read, join
reading groups, share
reading lists, track their
reading progress, etc..
And, if we're — as most authors know we should be — on
community reading sites like
Goodreads, we also have reviews or star ratings to put up there for yearly
reading challenges, group work and to prove to somebody (if only ourselves) that we are indeed, active readers.