press information
Goodreads was launched in early December, 2006. Goodreads currently has over 800,000 members and over 10,000,000 books added to member profiles.
press coverage
- January 20, 2008, The Virginian-Pilot, Social networking site for bibliophiles growing strong
- January 2, 2008, The Los Angeles Times, Unlikely forum for Iran's youth
- December 11, 2007, Time Magazine, Top 10 Websites of 2007
- November 16, 2007, South Coast Today, This week's book lover: Sonya Green of New Bedford
- November 14, 2007, Weekly Dig, Goodreads.com - A center for kids who can read good
- September 27, 2007, Business Standard, The world's largest reading room
- September 26, 2007, The Stranger, Facebook for Book Nerds
- September 6, 2007, Bookselling this Week, What Are They Reading? Sharing Personal Favorites Via Social Networking Sites
- July 26, 2007, Daily Candy, The Weekend Guide
- July 9, 2007, Publishers Weekly, Business, Pleasure Mix on Book Networking Sites
- July 5, 2006, Santa Barbara Independent, Goodreads.com
- July 2, 2007, PC Magazine, Site of the Week: Goodreads
- June 21, 2007, The Guardian, It's a new online chapter for books
- June 15, 2007, The Christian Science Monitor, Peer-to-peer book reviews fill a niche
- May 29, 2007, WHRO Public Radio, HearSay with Cathy Lewis
- April 24, 2007, Urban Junkies, Smartypants
- April 9, 2007, Flak Magazine, Goodreads
- March 26, 2007, Newsweek, Bookish Friends
- March 16, 2007, College Hill Independent, All Your Taste Are Belong to Other People
- March 13, 2007, Papermag, Goodreads, Good Times
- February 12, 2007, Radar, Reassuring Trends
blog coverage
- December 31, 2007, Book Patrol, Goodreads Rising as the Year Ends in the Book Social Networking World
- December 17, 2007, Techcrunch, Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book
- October 13, 2007, Read/Write Web, Internet Marketing for Novel Writers
- Septerber 11, 2007, Wired Compiler, Goodreads: Flickr For Your Books
- September 6, 2007, Mashable, GoodReads Hits 5 Million Books & Launches Interactive Widget
- May 23, 2007, Webware, Goodreads.com is like Last.FM for books
- Janurary 30, 2007, Mashable, GoodReads Launches a Social Network for Books
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what people are saying
"My geeky little Generation Y heart burst with joy when I found out about the social networking slash armchair critic book reviews site: Good Reads. More unaccredited, unsubstantiated, unfiltered streams of parboiled user-generated content! And you can meet others like you. Yes! The democracy of the web spreads yet further. Check out my profile, make your own and be my friend. I just listed the past 5 books I’ve read, the ones I’m on now and what I’ll be moving on to. Haven’t quite finished all of my reviews, so stay tuned." — misus spine"Goodreads is a social networking site for bookworms--for those of us with arguably too much time on our hands...or maybe just long commutes--who devour books like chocolate and want nothing more than to discuss literature in great detail long into the night." — ohmythatsawesome
"My friend just turned me on to this site: www.goodreads.com. It's like if myspace didn't suck and was occupied by book nerds. Crack, I tell you. Crack." — kxm
"I just found out about GoodReads.com today. Why didn’t anyone tell me about this? Now we can all share cool books with one another. If Fulana and I both liked a book, then I can see, "Hm, what else did she like that I don’t know about?" It’s clickity clicky goodness."
"I first noticed www.goodreads.com four months ago when a coworker at my bookstore sent me an invitation. The website tore through the Seattle bookselling community like an STD. Soon, every bookseller under 40 was a member. "Will you be my Goodreads friend?" we'd whisper to each other among the stacks. It was like MySpace, only better—it was all about books." — Paul Constant