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Kathleen Schmidt's avatar

Publishers need to sign on to this, too, because so many marketing campaigns include Goodreads giveaways. Goodreads doesn’t have a quantifiable effect on sales. Doing giveaways there is really another bullet point publishers can show authors so they (the publisher) can say “We did this for your book!”

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David Antrobus's avatar

This might seem simplistic at first glance, but I believe the solution to this phenomenon is for these sites to abandon the idea of star ratings altogether. I can't be the only person who values reviews because they reflect a person's emotional and intellectual engagement with the material; the interesting part is in the engagement itself not some clunky consumer guide system that's absent all nuance.

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