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A few months after posting a message on Goodreads about the imminent release of a new book, Indie author Beth Black woke up to an all-caps ransom email from an anonymous server, demanding that she ...

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Cait Corrain was about to achieve the dream of every aspiring writer by publishing her first novel. Instead, her career has imploded following a controversy involving Goodreads, the popular ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Goodreads appeared to be down for many users in an hours-long outage impacting the book-focused website on Monday and Tuesday. The Amazon-owned site, which allows users to keep ...

How much drama could possibly erupt on Goodreads, an online platform where people make reading lists and talk about books they’ve read? As it turns out, a whole lot. The Amazon-owned book ratings ...

Posting a torrent of fake negative book reviews — sometimes before a book is out or has even been written — is a known problem on the literary... Goodreads has a 'review bombing' problem — and wants ...

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