Gather around close, kiddies. It’s time for Auntie Tymber to tell you another scary tale of *DUN DUN DUUUUNNNNNN* Badly Behaving Authors!
Authors asking for reviews: the readers speak out. (And, FYI, they HATE Goodreads.)
So I conducted a highly scientific informal poll of my Tymber’s Trybe and Facebook peeps yesterday. (And a HUGE thank you to everyone who chimed in with their opinions.) The subject was asking about authors requesting reviews from readers. Which
Monday madness, new release, chatting, and other assorted insanity.
You know, a smart, organized person would have written this post up in advanced and had it scheduled to go live automatically. I am apparently not that person. For starters, I’m chatting over on Goodreads today and tomorrow, on the
Goodreads alternatives.
If you’ve been following the Goodreads kerfluffle and decided you want off the site, here are a few of the alternatives for you. (Some of these I haven’t used, but came across them while searching.) If you know of more,
Goodreads: You might not like it, but it’s not censorship.
Okay, I’m not even going to get into the backstory of what Goodreads did. Regardless of your position on the issue, I agree Goodreads just created themselves a PR nightmare, when they could have done something that made sense like,
The sky’s not falling, and Amazon doesn’t (always) eat their young.
I awoke this morning to various views on Amazon’s acquisition of Goodreads, varying in tone from, “Meh,” to, “OHMYGODIT’STHEENDOFTHEWORLD!” And everywhere in between. I tend more toward the “Meh” end of the spectrum myself. Why? Shelfari. Oh, and a little
Goodreads petition against piracy.
Did you know a Goodreads librarian can upload an e-book file to a book page? I found this out after discovering (thanks to a reader giving me a heads-up) that over a year ago, a Goodreads librarian had illegally uploaded