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This week’s link herd March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

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Every Monday Zebra Eclipse updates with a new Herd. The Herd is a digest of related links to stories appropriate to the blog. The goal is to show the common evolution of agency and publisher and to highlight the influence of creators, curators and community moderators.

Quiet news week! What did I miss?

  • Goodreads Competitor Slice Bookshelf Shuts Down
    The book community Slice Bookshelf is shutting down after attempting to compete against the powerhouse that is Amazon’s Goodreads. Slice won’t completely vanish as the company will focus on its core product – a mobile shopping companion.

Amazon’s Goodreads has doubled in size again

January 3, 2014 by Andrew Leave a Comment

It’s probably appropriate to think of Goodreads.com as Amazon’s social network. It doubled in size in 2012 and it did so again in 2013 according to a a blog post on the site.

Goodreads is now up to 25m members from a base of 6.5m in 2011. The infographic shows that every second 4 books were found on Goodreads and that the site now has 29 million book reviews. The most popular book of 2013 was Dan Brown’s Inferno and that matches with Amazon’s best seller list.

The most popular quote from the site comes from Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare;

Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.

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