Amazon’s Goodreads builds community, but breeds division. Indie rival StoryGraph is playing it safe – and gaining ground

Amazon’s Goodreads builds community, but breeds division. Indie rival StoryGraph is playing it safe – and gaining ground

Sinileunen/PexelsReading, 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 the news, Goodreads, founded in 2006 and estimated to have 150 million users, was arguably the first digital network to focus on reading. Goodreads, which has been owned by Amazon since 2013, invites users to track and share their …

The Storygraph and Bookwyrm: Goodreads alternatives

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An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative The StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more

David Barnett / The Guardian: An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative The StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more  —  Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed