Goodreads (English Wikipedia)

"Amazon.com to Acquire Goodreads" (Press release). Corporate IR. Retrieved March 28, 2013.{{cite press release}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link).

digitalbookworld.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

Greenfield, Jeremy (November 8, 2012), "Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler on the Future of Discoverability and Social Reading", Digital Book World., archived from the original on November 14, 2012, retrieved November 15, 2012

doi.org (Global: 2^nd place; English: 2^nd place)

Matthews, Jolie C (July 9, 2016). "Professionals and nonprofessionals on Goodreads: Behavior standards for authors, reviewers, and readers". New Media & Society. 18 (10): 2305–2322 r. doi:10.1177/1461444815582141. S2CID 26264609.

donya-e-eqtesad.com (Global: 4,478^th place; English: low place)

"اقدام عجیب گودریدز در تحریم کتابخوان‌‌های ایرانی". Donya-e Eghtesad (in Persian). June 29, 2025. Retrieved June 29, 2025.

forbes.com (Global: 71^st place; English: 54^th place)

Fidelman, Mark (October 16, 2012). "These are Top 25 Book Reviewers on Goodreads". Forbes (infographic). Retrieved October 22, 2012.

goodreads.com (Global: 824^th place; English: 816^th place)

Chandler, Otis (July 23, 2013). "Goodreads Grows to 20 Million Readers". Goodreads.
"About Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved December 1, 2020.
"Exciting News About Goodreads: We're Joining the Amazon Family!", Goodreads.
"Review Guidelines". Goodreads. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
"Goodreads". Retrieved November 29, 2012.
"Groups". Goodreads. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
"Goodreads Year in Review Series by Various". goodreads.com. Retrieved August 22, 2024.
"Author Program". Goodreads. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
"Goodreads". Goodreads. Retrieved June 15, 2014.
"Goodreads Librarians Group – New Ingram Import". Goodreads. Retrieved January 9, 2017.
"Goodreads Librarians Group – Adding New Books: Large Book Data Import (showing 1-50 of 472)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
"Amazon is going away as a data source". At Goodreads, we make it a priority to use book information from the most reliable and open data sources
Patrick (January 9, 2012). "Goodreads Librarians Group discussion – Announcement: Goodreads to Import WorldCat & Library of Congress Data Tonight".
"What is a goodreads librarian?". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
"Goodreads Librarians Group". Goodreads. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
"Terms of use". By posting any User Content on the Service, you expressly grant, and you represent and warrant that you have a right to grant, to Goodreads a royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, worldwide ....
"Goodreads Librarians Group – Amazon is going away as a data source (showing 1-50 of 1,601)". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved September 20, 2018.
Rivka (May 23, 2013). "The Announcement You've All Been Waiting For". Goodreads Librarians Group forums. goodreads.com. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
Brown, Patrick (August 6, 2012). "Review Guidelines & Updated Author Guidelines". Goodreads. Retrieved September 9, 2012.
Erikson, Kara (September 20, 2013). "Important Note Regarding Reviews". Goodreads. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
Jessica (February 11, 2010). "Goodreads now blocked in Iran". Goodreads. Retrieved June 27, 2025.

howstuffworks.com (Global: 1,354^th place; English: 958^th place)

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Strickland, Jonathan (July 14, 2009). "How Goodreads Works". How Stuff Works. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

insidebayarea.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Book lovers seething over Amazon acquisition of Goodreads", Inside Bay area, April 4, 2013.

janefriedman.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Books by Jane Friedman". Jane Friedman.com. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
Friedman, Jane (August 7, 2023). "I Would Rather See My Books Get Pirated Than This (Or: Why Goodreads and Amazon Are Becoming Dumpster Fires)". Jane Friedman. Retrieved August 9, 2023.

joealcorn.co.uk (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables existing API keys". December 13, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.^{[dead link]}

khabaronline.ir (Global: 1,738^th place; English: 6,217^th place)

"ممنوعیت کتابخوانی ایرانیان در گودریدرز". Khabaronline (in Persian). June 28, 2025. Retrieved June 29, 2025.

latimes.com (Global: 32^nd place; English: 21^st place)

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Kellogg, Carolyn (August 14, 2012). "Goodreads reaches 10 million users". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
Kellogg, Carolyn (October 30, 2012). "Goodreads launches its 2012 awards". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2012.

latimesblogs.latimes.com

Kellogg, Carolyn (December 14, 2009). "What Goodreads will do with its new millions". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved August 6, 2012.

libraryjournal.com (Global: 7,153^rd place; English: 3,644^th place)

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Klose, Stephanie (May 7, 2015). "Audiobook Samples Added to Goodreads". Library Journal Reviews. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.

lithub.com (Global: 5,181^st place; English: 2,959^th place)

"Elizabeth Khuri Chandler Tells the Origin Story of Goodreads". Literary Hub. December 3, 2018. Retrieved April 18, 2019.

medium.com (Global: 651^st place; English: 479^th place)

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Lashbrook, Angela (September 10, 2019). "Almost Everything About Goodreads Is Broken". Medium.

mixergy.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"How A Quiet Developer Built Goodreads.com Into Book Community Of 2.6+ Million Members - with Otis Chandler".

newstatesman.com (Global: 1,323^rd place; English: 717^th place)

Sarah Manavis (September 10, 2020). "Why Goodreads is bad for books". New Statesman.

newyorker.com (Global: 191^st place; English: 122^nd place)

Halford, Macy (November 2011). "Getting Good at Goodreads". The New Yorker. Retrieved November 15, 2011.

npr.org (Global: 114^th place; English: 75^th place)

"Goodreads: Otis and Elizabeth Chandler". NPR.org. Retrieved December 16, 2022.

nytimes.com (Global: 7^th place; English: 7^th place)

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Kaufman, Leslie (March 28, 2013). "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
Kaufman, Leslie (March 28, 2013). "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books". The New York Times. Retrieved March 29, 2013.
Kaufman, Leslie (March 29, 2013). "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
Kaufman, Leslie (February 13, 2013). "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books". The New York Times. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
Alexandra Alter and Elizabeth A. Harris (June 26, 2023). "How Review-Bombing Can Tank a Book Before It's Published". New York Times.

bits.blogs.nytimes.com

Miller, Claire Cain (March 10, 2011). "Need Advice on What to Read? Ask the Internet". The New York Times Bits. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

openlibrary.org (Global: 185^th place; English: 154^th place)

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Mek (December 13, 2020). "Importing your Goodreads & Accessing them with Open Library's APIs". The Open Library Blog. Retrieved May 16, 2021.

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Owen, Laura Hazard (January 27, 2012). "As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books". Paid Content: The Economics of Digital Content. Gigaom. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.

pcworld.com (Global: 1,889^th place; English: 1,323^rd place)

Zukerman, Erez (March 5, 2012). "Find New Favorite Books With Goodreads". PCWorld. Retrieved August 26, 2019.

penguinrandomhouse.com (Global: 2,297^th place; English: 1,166^th place)

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"How to Reach More Readers on Goodreads | News for Authors". Retrieved May 26, 2024.

pinterest.com (Global: 6,746^th place; English: 6,721^st place)

"Goodreads". Pinterest. Retrieved December 20, 2012.

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Snaije, Olivia (June 24, 2019). "On the forbidding of cultural exchange with Iran". Retrieved June 27, 2025.

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Kwak, JeeEun (September 2024). "Design Critique: Goodreads – Good Books Meet Bad UX (iOS App)". Pratt Institute. Retrieved April 4, 2025.

readwriteweb.com (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Goodreads Launches Social Reading API". Read write Web. October 2010. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010.

researchgate.net (Global: 96^th place; English: 89^th place)

Dera, Jeroen (2024). "Embarking on the online reading challenge: adolescents' participation motives, gains and impacts on reading routines". Literacy. Retrieved August 12, 2024.

salon.com (Global: 683^rd place; English: 407^th place)

Miller, Laura (October 23, 2013). "How Amazon and Goodreads could lose their best readers". Salon. Retrieved August 5, 2017.

semanticscholar.org (Global: 15^th place; English: 8^th place)

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Matthews, Jolie C (July 9, 2016). "Professionals and nonprofessionals on Goodreads: Behavior standards for authors, reviewers, and readers". New Media & Society. 18 (10): 2305–2322 r. doi:10.1177/1461444815582141. S2CID 26264609.

sfgate.com (Global: 248^th place; English: 142^nd place)

Lee, Ellen (July 21, 2012). "Goodreads' Otis Chandler reviews growth". SF Gate. Retrieved October 22, 2012.

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"Book Buddies". stanfordmag.org. January 2012.

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"Goodreads shutters all APIs, breaking my open source app". December 10, 2020. Retrieved December 15, 2020.

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Good reads: book nerds social networking, TechCoastReview, archived from the original on December 19, 2007, retrieved September 17, 2007.

techcrunch.com (Global: 317^th place; English: 224^th place)

"Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book". Tech Crunch. December 17, 2007. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
Olanoff, Drew. "Amazon Acquires Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Gives The Company A Social Advantage Over Apple". SF Gate. Retrieved October 22, 2012.
Ha, Anthony (August 13, 2012). "Reading Is Alive And Well At Social Reading Site Goodreads, Which Just Hit 10M Members". Tech Crunch. AOL Tech. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
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"Goodreads Announces New Content Policy – Now Deletes Reviews Which Mention Author Behavior". The Digital Reader. September 21, 2013.
"Goodreads Reaches New Milestone: Fifty Million Reviews". The Digital Reader. April 7, 2016.

theatlantic.com (Global: 322^nd place; English: 198^th place)

Narula, Svati Kirsten (February 12, 2014). "Millions of People Reading Alone, Together: The Rise of Goodreads". The Atlantic. Retrieved January 8, 2023.

theguardian.com (Global: 16^th place; English: 11^th place)

Flood, Allison (April 2, 2013). "Amazon purchase of Goodreads stuns book industry". The Guardian. Retrieved August 26, 2019.
Flood, Alison (February 15, 2010). "Iran blamed for blocking Goodreads networking site". The Guardian. Retrieved June 27, 2025.

thereadersroom.org (Global: low place; English: low place)

"Amazon Kills Shelfari". The Reader's Room. January 12, 2016.

time.com (Global: 84^th place; English: 63^rd place)

McCluskey, Megan (August 9, 2021). "How Extortion Scams and Review Bombing Trolls Turned Goodreads Into Many Authors' Worst Nightmare". Time.

twitter.com (Global: 43^rd place; English: 43^rd place)

"Goodreads". Twitter. Retrieved December 20, 2012.

usatoday.com (Global: 55^th place; English: 36^th place)

Frassica, Matt (July 2, 2011). "For ebook devotees, reading is a whole new experience". USA Today. The Courier-Journal (Louisville). Retrieved July 28, 2011.

usc.edu (Global: 1,432^nd place; English: 908^th place)

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Greiving, Tim (March 2016). "Goodreads Co-Founder Builds a Literary Community". USC News.

vice.com (Global: 247^th place; English: 175^th place)

Roscoe, Jules (June 28, 2023). "AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon's Bestseller Lists". Vice. Retrieved August 9, 2023.

washingtonpost.com (Global: 35^th place; English: 24^th place)

Petri, Alexandra (September 23, 2013). "Is Goodreads' new policy really censorship?". The Washington Post. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
O'Donovan, Caroline (July 2, 2023). "Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it". The Washington Post. Retrieved August 9, 2023.
Caroline O'Donovan, Goodreads was the future of book reviews. Then Amazon bought it., Washington Post (July 1, 2023).

web.archive.org (Global: 1^st place; English: 1^st place)

Good reads: book nerds social networking, TechCoastReview, archived from the original on December 19, 2007, retrieved September 17, 2007.
"Goodreads Launches Social Reading API". Read write Web. October 2010. Archived from the original on November 26, 2010.
Hopkins, Curt (March 10, 2011). "Goodreads Buys Recommendation Service Discovereads". ReadWrite. Archived from the original on July 4, 2013.
Greenfield, Jeremy (November 8, 2012), "Goodreads CEO Otis Chandler on the Future of Discoverability and Social Reading", Digital Book World., archived from the original on November 14, 2012, retrieved November 15, 2012
Klose, Stephanie (May 7, 2015). "Audiobook Samples Added to Goodreads". Library Journal Reviews. Archived from the original on October 12, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2016.
Amazon's next Kindle Paperwhite outed ahead of its official launch via Amazon's own leak Archived September 5, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
Owen, Laura Hazard (January 27, 2012). "As Goodreads Ends Sourcing From Amazon, Users Fear Lost Books". Paid Content: The Economics of Digital Content. Gigaom. Archived from the original on April 19, 2012. Retrieved November 29, 2012.
Kellogg, Carolyn (October 30, 2012). "Goodreads launches its 2012 awards". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on April 23, 2013. Retrieved November 27, 2012.

worldcat.org (Global: 4^th place; English: 4^th place)

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Kaufman, Leslie (March 28, 2013). "Amazon to Buy Social Site Dedicated to Sharing Books". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved June 16, 2019.

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