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Originally Posted by Quoth
Links to Amazon are more prominent than before Amazon bought it.
It was a shame Amazon bought IMDB and Goodreads.
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Yes. Goodreads became less useful to me after the acquisition; the homepage showed mostly my own books and promotional links, neither of which is of interest, to the detriment of what my friends are reading, which is what I’d like to see. Yes, I could scroll down, but I usually don’t bother, just log my books and go. I haven’t looked at the new horror yet.
A constant irritant isn’t even so much that Goodreads is promoting books because I realize that’s the game with a free site, but that the promotional books are so poorly targeted. Goodreads has my ratings on close to 3,000 books; can’t they come up with books of more interest to me than cowboy and Amish romances? Of course they could, but the type of books I like aren’t paying them for promotion. Frankly, it’s a con on the authors who I suspect think they’re paying for a likely audience, not just any warm body.