Effective January 30, Goodreads and Amazon will no longer be partners. paid.Content.org has a pretty good explanation of the split.
"Book-centered social networking site Goodreads, which allows users to
keep records of the books they read and share the information with
others, has long sourced most of its basic book data from Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN).
Now, saying Amazon’s API terms have become “more and more restrictive,”
Goodreads is switching data providers and entering an agreement with
book wholesaler Ingram—alarming some users who fear their reading
records will be lost.
The changes take place January 30. Goodreads’ new data source is book
wholesaler Ingram. Goodreads will pay to license data from Ingram, and
will supplement it with book records from the Library of Congress and
other sources."
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