Here's another reason why Amazon (might have) bought Goodreads:
http://www.teleread.com/amazon/one-m...hor-discovery/
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I think another reason Amazon bought Goodreads was to find another source of good authors to woo. Look at what they say on the AmazonCrossing site:
Similar to AmazonEncore, Amazon.com’s first publishing imprint, AmazonCrossing uses customer feedback and other data from Amazon sites to identify exceptional works that deserve a wider, global audience.
Looks to me like Amazon just invested in another site from which to mine data about who’s good and who’s not.
If you are a successful self-published author interested in being discovered by Amazon, I’d suggest you create/brush up your Goodreads page and presence.
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