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

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.

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 The site is built on outdated technological infrastructure, which made the cost of ...

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 ...