Amazon Buy of Goodreads Draws Attention

March 29, 2013

Amazon Buys Goodreads Amazon has acquired Goodreads.com, a Web site featuring user-generated reviews of books. The purchase comes amid mounting rumors that Goodreads, which CEO Otis Chandler launched in 2007, might start selling books directly from its site rather than through affiliates. more » Amazon Buy of Goodreads Draws Raves, Pans on Twitter Goodreads members and the book community on Twitter responded vociferously to the acquisition of Goodreads by Amazon.com, offering both sober analysis an outpouring of mordant, gloomy wit about the future of the social reading site. more » Cassandra Clare Tops Bestseller List Nielsen BookScan's top 10 for the week ending March 24 saw five debuts, with Cassandra Clare's Clockwork Princess topping the bestseller list with 68,000 copies sold in its first week. more » New York Upholds Online Sales Tax In the second sign within a week that sales tax fairness is gaining ground, the New York Court of Appeals overwhelmingly ruled in favor of the state's affiliate nexus law. more » Today's Job Greenleaf Book Group is seeking a Client Brand Manager. Maybe it's you! For more about this and other jobs, visit PW JobZone. To post a new job, click here. Changing Hands Bookstore to Open Second Location in Phoenix Changing Hands Bookstore, which has been in business in Tempe, Az. since 1974, announced that it will open a second store in The Newton, a mixed-use space for dining and shopping that will open in Phoenix in November 2013. The new store will open November 1 and contain a number of differences from the Tempe store. more » » May Workshop on Owning a Bookstore Donna Paz Kaufman and Mark Kaufman of The Bookstore Training Group of Paz & Associates are offering a five-day workshop retreat on book retailing for new bookstore owners and those considering buying a store,from May 6-10 on Amelia Island (near Jacksonville, Fl.). more » » YouTube's Annoying Orange Is Headed to Bookshelves HarperCollins Children's Books has secured the rights to The Collective's Annoying Orange property for a series of joke and storybooks, beginning with Annoying Orange: How to Be Annoying this fall. The animation property got its start on YouTube, where it has more than 2.7 million subscribers and has been seen more than one billion times. It also has been airing on Cartoon Network since June 2012. more » » THE ROUNDUP 'The Host' Reviews: Not great. Sneaky Author Tricks: It was all a dream! Five Girl-Power Books: Just like "Lean In." Libraries Become Publishing Portals?: Mark Coker: "Libraries are developing community publishing initiatives in partnership with self-published e-book authors." What is the Business of Literature?: Richard Nash weighs in. VIEW ALL » Authors on the Air Authors on the Air March 29, 2013: David Sheff David Sheff will discuss Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy (Eamon Dolan/HMH, 978-0547848655) on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon this Saturday, March 30. more » » BLOGS PWxyz Blog Gabe Habash What Did We Learn from Our Great American Novel Poll? Aside from someone voting for "the constitution." more » Beyond Her Book Barbara Vey WW Ladies Book Club See what the WW Ladies are reading this week. more » ShelfTalker Josie Leavitt Gadgets Versus Books During a long airport layover, I was the only person reading an actual/physical book. This kind of amazed me. Where were the books? more » Genreville Rose Fox Endings and Beginnings Genreville is now part of PWxyz. more » PICTURE OF THE DAY Freeman Celebrates 50 at Fitger's Brian Freeman, author of the Jonathan Stride mystery-thriller novels, celebrated his 50th birthday this week in Duluth, Minn. with a book signing at Fitger's Bookstore, a reading from The Cold Nowhere (Quercus) and cupcakes. The Cold Nowhere, which is the sixth Jonathan Stride novel, is set in Duluth.	Of Note Podcast: Shades of Grey...And Green Random House parent company Bertelsmann has put a cap on a record year for the global publishing giant with an announcement that worldwide revenue at RH rose almost 23%, while the companies' profits operating margin jumped almost 76%. Listen here. more »

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