A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom email from an anonymous server, demanding that she ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How much drama could possibly erupt on Goodreads, an online platform where people make reading lists and talk about books they’ve ...

Cait Corrain was about to achieve the dream of every aspiring writer by publishing her first novel. Instead, her career has imploded following a controversy involving Goodreads, the popular ...

Amazon has owned Goodreads since 2013 and is the largest social media network devoted to books. Goodreads is accessible on Kindle e-readers, so it is easy to craft your own reading lists and and ...

Goodreads claims to be the world’s largest online platform for readers and book recommendations. Elizabeth Chandler, a journalist at the Los Angeles Times, and her partner Otis Chandler launched the ...

Reading, once a largely private activity, has become more public and communal with the emergence of book-centred social media spaces. But while the “BookTok” and “Bookstagram” communities are often in ...

First-time author Cait Corrain was set to publish her debut novel next year, but she lost her book deal and literary agent after admitting to “review bombing” other authors on Goodreads, a persistent ...

How much drama could possibly erupt on Goodreads, an online platform where people make reading lists and talk about books they’ve read? As it turns out, a whole lot. The Amazon-owned book ratings ...

Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary... Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants ...