The social writing network Wattpad rolled out a new update last week for their mobile apps. In addition to bug fixes and performance improvements, the apps now support a new...Continue reading
Category: Social Media
Goodreads Hits New Milestone: 100,000 Authors
Goodreads is probably wishing they had held that “by the numbers” infographic they posted a couple weeks ago, because today they announced a new milestone. In addition to the 25...Continue reading
Infographic: Amazon’s 4th Social Network is Growing By Leaps & Bounds
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 grow unabated. Earlier this...Continue reading
Goodreads Says BookLikes is Spontaneously Deleting User Content
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. I’ve just learned...Continue reading
Looking for a Replacement for Goodreads? Try Booklikes
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 alternative. Some are ending...Continue reading
Goodreads Announces New Content Policy – Now Deletes Reviews Which Mention Author Behavior
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 announced a new content...Continue reading
Wattpad Expands Into Crowd-Funding
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 in a way that...Continue reading
Book Country Relaunches With Closer Integration With Sister Company Author Solutions
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, and plans to launch...Continue reading
Goodreads Added 4 Million Members in 4 Months
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 million members. That’s 4...Continue reading
Digital Publishing Platform Cloudary Raised $110 million from Goldman Sachs
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 is Cloudary’s second round...Continue reading
LinkedIn Buys Pulse for $90 Million
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 acquired a news reading...Continue reading
MobileRead Forums Now Available as an App
It may have taken a few more years than some would have liked but MobileRead is now available via Tapatalk. For those who don’t know, Tapatalk is an immensely popular...Continue reading
WattPad and beActive Launch new Transmedia Project
How would you like to interact with the character’s of a story as the story unfolds? Then you might be interested in Aisling’s Diary, a new experiment from WattPad and...Continue reading