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When the site was purchased by Amazon for $150 million in 2013, The Atlantic reported that: “When all is said and done, in the world of books, Goodreads is just about as influential as Facebook.”
Goodreads' review system is more easily "gamed" than other online book-review platforms, although Goodreads remains by far the most popular website for book reviews. [73] [74] Amazon.com does not allow reviews to be posted for most books that have not yet been released, and Amazon book reviews indicate whether the user leaving the review ...
Jane Friedman [76] discovered six listings of books fraudulently using her name on Amazon and Goodreads; the companies resisted removing the fraudulent titles until the author's complaints went viral on social media in a blog post, "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires)."
After Internet speculation on the author's identity, Xiran named the author as Cait Corrain and shared a Google Doc showing screenshots of low ratings from accounts allegedly owned by Corrain. [ 2 ] The fantasy novel Crown of Starlight was scheduled to be Cait Corrain's debut title, scheduled to be published on May 14, 2024 through Del Rey , a ...
Some people argue that it’s easier to see other people’s reviews and comments on Goodreads, Allie said. But she thinks this is a complaint that the makers of the app will address.
In fact, reports about Amazon scams have increased by a whopping 500 percent since June 2020, and experts say that a wide range of Amazon email scams are floating around right now.
One of the first appearances of the term "review bomb" was in a 2008 Ars Technica article by Ben Kuchera describing the effect in regards to Spore, in which users left negative reviews on Amazon citing the game's perceived lackluster gameplay and digital rights management system. Kuchera wrote "Review-bombing Amazon is a particularly nasty way ...
In fact, cyber criminals bilked people over age 60 out of $3.4 billion last year — an increase of nearly 11% from 2022 — per the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center.