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Originally Posted by gmw
It's good for Amazon, and for the owners of GoodReads - but that much was obvious, it didn't really need Mark Coker to confirm it, but hey, got to get his brand inserted into this "positive" news somewhere. It's just possible that it may turn out to be good for authors too. But I don't think it's good news for readers, whether you use GR or not. Anything that increases Amazon's influence and reduces competition in the market is not going to be good for readers, and that would appear to be the most likely result of this change. This is not intended as an anti-Amazon stance, I just think that the whole industry loses out.
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If it isn't good for readers, it is definitely not good for authors. I don't care who sells what, authors are in the same bucket as the readers. There may be distributors, artists, publishers, marketers, webpages, and retailers in-between those two, but in the end, you need two actual things to read: an author and a reader.