A woman says she was browsing Instagram’s Threads when she came upon scary information about Goodreads and Kindle integration ...

In fact, Goodreads is still an essential idea — so much so that it’s worth fighting to fix it. When I joined the site in 2007, I felt I had finally found my place online.

The site is built on the backs of authors, yet continues to do almost nothing to shield them from review bombing.

The website Goodreads has become an essential avenue for building readership, but the same features that help generate excitement can also backfire. By Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Goodreads — an Amazon-owned review site beloved by the bookish — has grown beleaguered. The site is built on outdated technological infrastructure, which made the cost of ...

Amazon-owned Goodreads makes little effort to verify users, and critics say this enables a practice known as review-bombing, in which a book is flooded with negative reviews, often from fake ...

As an avid reader and book collector, quantifying my collection is essential to me. And as the biggest reading-tracking platform around, Goodreads has been my go-to for about a decade. But it's clear ...

The Goodreads page for The Snow Forest, which has since been taken down, accused her of romanticizing the Russian soul. “I’ll cut the job for you—they don’t have any,” wrote one reviewer.

O ne upcoming romantasy book slated for release in early 2026 has already beaten Onyx Storm's Goodreads score long before its publication date, indicating that it will be another BookTok success ...

But Goodreads has previously struggled to prevent “review bombing”—in October, it issued a message to users urging them to report suspected review bombers, and earlier this year it adopted a ...

Goodreads really needs a mechanism for stopping one-star attacks on writers. — roxane gay (@rgay) June 12, 2023. Related Posts: In response to the frequent review bombing on Amazon's book review ...

FOR contemporary authors, one of the most necessary of evils is Goodreads (owned by Amazon). The book review site for active readers can be a real benefit to writers, particularly those without big ...