Good Reads

[bookworm 1]

Too many books.......a problem we all share.

I shared mine with friends. They did start getting overwhelming, that's why I stopped entering. I still have a few to go.

[Sabrina Morgan]

I know as a winner, we are encouraged to read and post a review on the wins, but it's going to take me a while to finish Hyperion (which I really want to finish, as I have enjoyed it up to this point), then decide on which of the 2 giveaways to do. I will review them however on their respective sites.

I can't imagine those who have many giveaway wins, how you are going to review on the sites yous wont them off of. I have a bunch of giveaways I entered, that the winners have not been announced yet - what if I get more?

I shared mine with friends. They did start getting overwhelming, that's why I stopped entering. I still have a few to go.

[bookworm 1]

2 wins in the last week. Came home from camp and Project Cain/Cains Blood by Geoffrey Girard. Was waiting for me. Forgot what the other one is. Still going through my e-mail trying to get caught up.

[TJCams]

I know as a winner, we are encouraged to read and post a review on the wins, but it's going to take me a while to finish Hyperion (which I really want to finish, as I have enjoyed it up to this point), then decide on which of the 2 giveaways to do. I will review them however on their respective sites.

I can't imagine those who have many giveaway wins, how you are going to review on the sites yous wont them off of. I have a bunch of giveaways I entered, that the winners have not been announced yet - what if I get more?

[peteOcha]

I finally won my first Goodreads giveaway!!!!!!

The Thicket by Joe Lansdale. I have not read anything by this author yet, so it's a double bonus for me, plus the story sounds pretty cool too.

Plus I also won a second LibraryThing giveaway for another e-book. Middle Damned by Shane Stilson. I received it by email already, but may wait until I finish Hyperion before I jump into it.

Nice, congrats! That's a great first win!

[rusty23]

Congrats. You'll love Lansdale.

[Highbury]

Nice! I have Thicket preordered as I have also recently discovered Joe's work.

[TJCams]

I finally won my first Goodreads giveaway!!!!!!

The Thicket by Joe Lansdale. I have not read anything by this author yet, so it's a double bonus for me, plus the story sounds pretty cool too.

Plus I also won a second LibraryThing giveaway for another e-book. Middle Damned by Shane Stilson. I received it by email already, but may wait until I finish Hyperion before I jump into it.

[peteOcha]

I'm still waiting for my first win to get here... Hopefully it does.

[ozmosis7]

I have one giveaway finishing up on Goodreads and will likely put up a bunch shortly after. I have some older stock and I'm feeling in a giving mood lately, so be on the lookout for it. I'm planning on including some of my children's books.

Anyway, I'm not sure when there will be changes or if those changes will even be significant. I've been using GR more than usual lately and haven't noticed anything. I guess I expected some immediate changes, more intrusive and focused on their product. But it doesn't seem to be in the plans, as least not yet.

From the locals I've talked to that use GR, they don't plan to stop using the site. LibraryThing does look interesting, so I may check that out. Thanks for the post about it.

[srboone]

But Tim Spauling still own the contolling share of it. And he's making money at it still since LT charges a yearly fee. But maybe $150m would change his mind too.

[RJK1981]

I have no problem with Amazon buying Goodreads. I think worrying about it is silly, though sorta understandable. Amazon isn't going to change what works and risk losing the fans that made Goodreads so popular. One change that makes sense that I have seen is the Amazon link in the dropdown list for books is now at the top, instead of the bottom. Amazon is the biggest seller of books, so it should have already been on the top anyway. I think a big reason Amazon made this purchase was more user info, and if I was worried about that then I wouldn't do anything online, especially not have a Facebook account or anything of the like.

I don't know how many are aware of it, but Amazon has a 40% share in LibraryThing as well, so switching from one to the other because of the Goodreads sale seems a bit silly and counterproductive to me. That share comes from Amazon purchasing AbeBooks.

[srboone]

Over the last two days, I've received 2 books from giveaways that I did not win. I'm not complaining because one of them was The Hangman's Replacement which is truly magnificient. I also ntoiced that I'd entered 7 times to win Death Ain't But a Word and I just entered the 8th giveaway fort his book. I'm sure tenacity and perserverance will pay off, but come on!

[bookworm 1]

I don't think it will be that bad. I like gr and will continue to use it.People are always looking for a reason to have issues with something.It seems to be more and more these days.

[peteOcha]

Wow, a few days of not logging on to GR and then all of a sudden this. I'm leaning towards the side that Amazon won't do very much in the way of changes, at least not right away.