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 ...

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.

Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it. A prominent author’s decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads’s ...