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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
It took me a couple of days to sort out my own unease, but in my case it comes down to this:
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What I don't want is Amazon funneling their own site traffic to GR. Many people discover GR after running from the chaos that is the Amazon forums.
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This post pretty much covers exactly how I feel. I don't hate Amazon, in fact I'm a Prime member. But I started using Goodreads because the reviews on both Amazon and B&N are horrible. I got tired of the random 1 star reviews for things completely unrelated to the book.
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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
Another thing that concerns me is "Goodreads as marketing venue". I hope the authors reading will read all of it before getting mad at me, because it's probably not you that I'm talking about.
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Also agree about the authors, there are quite a few that I follow on GR because I love their books and want to keep up with their blog posts & the projects they are working on - but I definitely don't want "please buy my book" spam.
I too am going to continue to use my account for now and wait to see what happens. If I only used GR for cataloging I would definitely move back to LT (and I might still upgrade my account there as a "back-up"), but I would sorely miss the bookclubs I've joined and friends I've made on GR.