I’ve never seen or heard of this happening on LT (if it has happened to you, please mention it in the comments), which presents itself as more user-centered. Goodreads is a great place to promote your book.” In my opinion, Goodreads’ use as a promotional tool is what causes “authors behaving badly” on GR to happen– some see it as a promo space exclusively, and therefore feel comfortable responding to negative reviews by confronting the user. No matter how great your novel, this DOES apply to authors.” From the Goodreads website: “Are you an author or publisher? Gain access to a massive audience of more than 9 million book lovers. Egregious commercial solicitation is forbidden. From LT: “LibraryThing is not an advertising medium. The difference between the two in this is pretty easily summed up by statements on their websites.
When an author schedules an Author Chat, LT sends an invitation to all the users who have that author’s books on their shelves.
LibraryThing– Author chats and promotion of their own works are (supposed to be) limited to two places: the HobNob With Authors Group and the Author Chat Group. If you want to avoid his, you have to accept friend requests with caution.
#Delicious library vs librarything full#
Your inbox can quickly become full of author spam. Once you do friend an author, they can (and many do) start sending you invites to giveaways/events/chats/whatever. Goodreads– When an author asks to be your friend, you have no way of seeing that it IS an author unless you click through to the profile. HOWEVER, you do have the option of filtering reviews by oldest or newest first. This DOES mean that snarky/goofy reviews (which garner a lot of attention) written by popular users can have precedence in the display over other types of reviews. According to GR, sorting is based on a combination of likes/comments, the review length, and the reviewer’s user history (number of friends, or, dare I say it, C(K)LOUT). After that, the algorithm for how Goodreads sorts and displays is secret. You can filter these reviews for all editions of the book, just your edition, by star rating, or “text only” content. Under friend reviews are community reviews. Goodreads– Shows you your friends’ reviews first, which I’m way more interested in than the reviews of strangers (another point for the “GR is more for bookish social interaction” theory). If you have anything else to add to the discussion, please do so below! LibraryThing: Part One, which covered adding books to your library, book recommendations, stats, user interfaces, and discussion/groups. This is a continuation of last week’s post, Goodreads v.
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