Amazon famously started as an online bookstore. In the three decades since, it has disrupted how people buy, read, and review books through steps like undercutting local bookstore prices, launching ...

Amazon's Goodreads is plagued by issues that hurt authors, distract readers, and fail to support the book community.

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

19.0039% OFF$11.53 at Amazon Goodreads rating: 4.7 Genre: Memoir During the Brock Turner rape trial, she was known simply as his an anonymous victim. But in her 2019 memoir, Chanel Miller not only ...

Jason Bailey is a film critic and historian. He is the author, most recently, of "Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend." For contemporary authors, one of the most necessary of evils is ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon.com Inc., the world’s biggest online retailer that got its start in bookselling, has agreed to buy book recommendations site Goodreads. Financial terms of the deal were not ...

Goodreads is the largest social network geared toward books and book recommendations. It has a vast community and was launched in 2007. The service has constantly been refined ever since. Amazon ...

Last month, Amazon fired 100 people working in its devices and services unit, the group overseeing development of such diverse products as the Kindle, Echo speakers, Alexa voice assistant and Zoox ...

Late last week, Amazon, which features reader reviews on its sales website, announced that it's buying Goodreads, a hugely popular reader review site. Now, the announcement jarred a lot of Goodreads ...