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Originally Posted by Fbone
Goodreads members and especially their librarians voluntarily spent many hours maintaining the site. Entering books, metadata, covers and series info. Plus all the reviews and ratings. Editing, editing, organizing and organizing. We're talking hundreds of hours each year all in sharing to make GR a success ... 16 million members and $150 million is evidence.
However, now that Amazon will soon own them there is little incentive for us to continue to do so. Will people volunteer their time to help Amazon earn more money? Some may feel a multi-billion dollar corporation can hire their own people to maintain their site. Doesn't feel like charity any more.
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I see, no I wouldn't work for free either, I'm happy to help out if people need some help with, ohh let's say a piece of Japanese translation, knowing that it benefits people interested in a subject but lacking the necessary language skills. But yeah, if that person took the credit for my translation I would feel a tad miffed. So it is an emotional letdown if Amazon start using all that work as something they produced themselves? But what if Amazon would start to reimburse those efforts? Is that a likely scenario?