Category: Social Media

Infographic: Amazon’s 4th Social Network is Growing By Leaps & Bounds

3 January, 20144 September, 2015AAP, Amazon, Infographic, Social Media, Social reading5 Comments

Goodreads immediately became Amazon's social networking crown jewel when the retailer acquired it in March 2013, and in the past 9 months it has continued to...

Goodreads Says BookLikes is Spontaneously Deleting User Content

11 October, 201311 October, 2013Social Media, Social readingLeave a comment

Goodreads may have been founded on the idea of people communicating but lately it seems the management has only been opening their mouth to change feet....

Looking for a Replacement for Goodreads? Try Booklikes

21 September, 201311 May, 2017Social Media15 Comments

Whether you agree with the new review policy or not, the latest dust-up at Goodreads is inspiring a number of members to go look for an...

Goodreads Announces New Content Policy – Now Deletes Reviews Which Mention Author Behavior

20 September, 201321 September, 2013Social Media, Social reading64 Comments

Goodreads has long been struggling to decide between the opposing needs of reader/reviewers and of authors, and today the latter group has finally won out. Goodreads...

Wattpad Expands Into Crowd-Funding

12 August, 201313 May, 2017Crowd-Funding, Social Media3 Comments

The only writing community Wattpad has just announced a new crowd-funding platform. It's called Fan Funding, and it offers writers and readers a chance to connect...

Book Country Relaunches With Closer Integration With Sister Company Author Solutions

23 July, 201322 October, 2018Social MediaOne Comment

The Random Penguin Solutions feeder tank online author site Book Country was relaunched this morning. The site now offers more services, better support for more genres,...

Goodreads Added 4 Million Members in 4 Months

23 July, 201323 July, 2013Social Media7 Comments

The latest addition to Amazon's ebook empire set a new milestone today. Goodreads, the leading online book community, has just announced that they now have 20...

Digital Publishing Platform Cloudary Raised $110 million from Goldman Sachs

8 July, 201313 May, 2017Publishing, Social Media2 Comments

Cloudary Corp, a spinoff of the Chinese media conglomerate Shanda Interactive, has recently raised $110 million in private financing from Temasek Holdings and Goldman Sachs. This...

LinkedIn Buys Pulse for $90 Million

11 April, 201310 May, 2017News Reader, Social Media, Social readingLeave a comment

The news reader service Pulse has just announced (and LinkedIn has confirmed) that last month's rumors were true. The world's largest professional social network has just...