Smashing, an AI-powered news and social media posts aggregation app by Goodreads co-founder Otis Chandler, shuts down, citing its inability to grow quickly
but most of it is nearly impossible to find. And yet, when you do find a gem, it can be so
An interview with Nadia Odunayo on building Goodreads alternative StoryGraph, remaining bootstrapped, reaching 3.8M active users, not allowing DMs, and more
Software engineer and developer Nadia Odunayo created the social media readers' platform StoryGraph and its popularity has rocketed Bluesky: @justsmudge , @ben-esse , and @davidmbarnett Mastodon: @Cli...
Amazon launches Your Books, a hub to let users organize all of their books, including print, Kindle, and Audible titles, while also providing recommendations
Amazon today is launching its own competitor to Goodreads, a book tracking and recommendations site it also owns.
Researchers develop a “divergence attack” that makes ChatGPT emit sequences copied from its training data, by prompting the LLM to repeat a word numerous times
all it took was this prompt Mastodon: @aphyr@woof.group : The authors' web site for that LLM corpus-extraction attack is nicely done, too: https://not-just-memorization.github.io / ... Rachel Rawlings...
Letterboxd's founders sell a majority stake to Canadian company Tiny; a source says the deal values the film-focused social network with ~10M users at $50M+
Post article to X Post article to Facebook Copy article link Tiny : Tiny Announces Majority Acquisition of Letterboxd Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter : Letterboxd, Film Discussion Platform, Sells...
An author finds multiple “garbage books” uploaded to Amazon under her name, most likely AI-generated, and on Goodreads, which removed them after her complaint
Update: Hours after this post was published, my Goodreads profile was cleaned of the offending titles.
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let Goodreads languish with limited resources while mining the book review site for user-generated data
Former Amazon and Goodreads employees detail how Amazon let the book review site languish with limited resources while mining it for user-generated data
A prominent author's decision to pull her new novel from publication after being ‘review bombed’ highlights Goodreads's power in publishing … Mastodon: @freemancrouch@mastodon.social and @SDZ@mstdn.so...
A look at review-bombing campaigns on Goodreads that can derail a book's publication long before its release, frustrating both new and established authors
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Goodreads has held on to its dominant spot online despite being nearly unusable, but its reign is now being challenged by competitors, including The StoryGraph
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