Goodreads and Amazon parting ways

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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goodreads Best of 2010

I started gathering books to take to the beach and decided to get out of my reading rut.  Mysteries and thrillers are my favorite. I just love reading John Sandford, Joseph Finder, Karin Slaughter, James Patterson, Steve Martini, Lisa Gardner, Janet Evanovich, Lee Child, Lisa Lutz  and on and on.   Few if any non-fiction books are on my reading list except for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt books -- I really like reading about the Roosevelts.  Then I recalled that I enjoyed reading about Frank Lloyd Wright  in Loving Frank by Nancy Horan.   So I thought I would chose a few non-fiction books for my summer reading and reviewed the goodreads list of the Best of 2010 for ideas.

This is a list of favorite books chosen by the readers on goodreads.   "More than 157,000 votes were cast for 460 nominees and thousands of write-in candidates."

I will admit that I did add a couple mysteries to my summer list after looking at the goodreads suggestions!