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Amazon competes with its own Goodreads with launch of book discovery service, ‘Your Books’

Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns. The retailer announced the launch of a new Amazon feature, Your Books, which will orga

5 of the best apps to track your reading and discover new books

As 2022 comes to a close, you may be looking for the best reads of the year that you might have missed, or you may want to start compiling a list of books you want to read in the new year. There are n

Copper is building ‘the Instagram for book lovers’

Any book lover knows the feeling: The incredible novel you’re reading ends with a vicious cliffhanger, and all you want to do is gab with other fans about what might happen next, but none of you

Gift Guide: Extremely Online books

If you can't read a good book without stopping every few pages to tweet about it, you might be what we call Extremely Online. You unabashedly distinguish between real life and digital life by using ph

Inky’s book recommendation app helps you find new reads

Amazon acquired social reading service Goodreads five years ago, squelching the life out of the competitive landscape, as minimal as it was. So it’s promising to see a new app appear with the g

Amazon’s Goodreads App Finally Gets A Makeover

Goodreads, the social network for book lovers, has at last seen its first major update since Amazon bought the company last March. This week, Goodreads rolled out a significant redesign on iOS (comin

Amazon-Acquired Goodreads Says It Has 20M Members, Doubling In Less Than A Year

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com">Goodreads</a>, the social reading service that <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/amazon-acquires-social-reading-site-goodreads/">Amazon acqu

Eric Schmidt-Backed Slice Moves Beyond Receipt Tracking With Debut Of Bookshelf, A Social Network For Readers

Is there room for another social network for book lovers, now that the biggest, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.goodreads.com/">Goodreads</a>, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2013/03/28/amazon-acq

Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple

Today, Amazon has announced the acquisition of social reading service, Goodreads. Specific terms of the deal weren’t disclosed and it should close by the end of Q2. Goodreads had raised $2.75 mi

GoodReads’ Recommendation Engine Acquisition Gooses The Publishing Game

While <a HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/13/books/steve-jobs-biography-and-other-hot-titles-bookstore-lures.html?pagewanted=all">bookstores are reporting increased sales this month</a>, I foresee

Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book

Los Angeles based Goodreads, a social network focused on book lovers, has managed to get to 650,000 registered users and near profitability without any funding at all in their first year since launch.