As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).
I'm a little behind on this, what does goodreads have to do with bezos?
umbraroze@slrpnk.net 5 days ago
insaneinthemembrane@lemmy.world 5 days ago
In 2013 Goodreads was sold to Amazon 😭
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
It’s impressive how Goodreads has been owned by 10+ years by the company with the largest cloud infrastructure and supposedly great engineers, and still it loads like shitty personal blog from the 2000s. It’s pretty obvious it was just bought so they could redirect traffic to Kindle store, just like IMDB redirects to Amazon Prime.