I'm glad I never paid any attention to Good Reads ("social reading" is kind of an odd concept to me) -- but at least it was what it was and now it's not. Kind of like Amazon owning IMDB and Box Office Mojo (no ratings skewing for Amazon Prime productions of course). Or Warner Communications owning Rotten Tomatoes (I think, now it's actually owned by Fandango/Vudu -- Fandango sells movie tickets, Vudu sells streaming) no chance for abuse or gaming the system there. These sites should have to put up disclaimers.
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