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2009 press coverage

• August 18, 2009, Brainerd Dispatch, A book Best enjoyed with a slice of pizza
• August 17, 2009, The Los Angeles Times Jacket Copy, Scenes from the Goodreads book swap with Kogi BBQ at Book Soup
• June 16, 2009, Examiner, Pump up your summer reading list with Goodreads.
• May 18, 2009, The Jakarta Post, Book fans benefit from book swapping
• May 6, 2009, About.com:Web Trends, Are You Ready for the Electronic Book War?
• April 30, 2009, Publishers Weekly, L.A. Times Panel Debates Gatekeepers, Supply Chain and e-Books
• April 13, 2009, Examiner, GoodReads on the go: new mobile site

2008 press coverage

• December 23, 2008, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Author, your group is calling
• December 18, 2008, Daily Camera, Hyper literate: Local readers and writers reaping the rewards of book-themed social networking sites
• December 8, 2008, New York Times Blogs, Rekindling Online Book Reviews
• November 30, 2008, Post Star, Local reader organizes online book group
• October 8th, 208, Mashable, GoodReads Adds Status Updates to Answer the Question: What Page Are You On?
• August 4th, 2008, VentureBeat, GoodReads shows that people still read and love their books
• April 28, 2008, BNET, Otis Chandler: Literary Networking
• April 16, 2008, Associated Press, Enthusiasts find big is not always best with social networks
• March 30, 2008, Daily Telegraph, The 101 most useful websites
• March 20, 2008, National Public Radio, Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually
• February 26, 2008, Minnpost, Social networks are splintering into cyber niches
• January 20, 2008, The Virginian-Pilot, Social networking site for bibliophiles growing strong
• January 2, 2008, The Los Angeles Times, Unlikely forum for Iran's youth

2007 press coverage

• December 31, 2007, Book Patrol, Goodreads Rising as the Year Ends in the Book Social Networking World
• December 17, 2007, Techcrunch, Goodreads Raises Angel Round To Help You Find That Perfect Book
• December 11, 2007, Time Magazine, Top 10 Websites of 2007
• November 16, 2007, South Coast Today, This week's book lover: Sonya Green of New Bedford
• November 14, 2007, Weekly Dig, Goodreads.com - A center for kids who can read good
• October 13, 2007, Read/Write Web, Internet Marketing for Novel Writers
• September 26, 2007, The Stranger, Facebook for Book Nerds
• Septerber 11, 2007, Wired Compiler, Goodreads: Flickr For Your Books
• September 6, 2007, Mashable, GoodReads Hits 5 Million Books & Launches Interactive Widget
• September 6, 2007, Bookselling this Week, What Are They Reading? Sharing Personal Favorites Via Social Networking Sites
• July 26, 2007, Daily Candy, The Weekend Guide
• July 9, 2007, Publishers Weekly, Business, Pleasure Mix on Book Networking Sites
• July 5, 2006, Santa Barbara Independent, Goodreads.com
• July 2, 2007, PC Magazine, Site of the Week: Goodreads
• June 21, 2007, The Guardian, It's a new online chapter for books
• June 15, 2007, The Christian Science Monitor, Peer-to-peer book reviews fill a niche
• May 29, 2007, WHRO Public Radio, HearSay with Cathy Lewis
• May 23, 2007, Webware, Goodreads.com is like Last.FM for books
• April 24, 2007, Urban Junkies, Smartypants
• April 9, 2007, Flak Magazine, Goodreads
• March 26, 2007, Newsweek, Bookish Friends
• March 16, 2007, College Hill Independent, All Your Taste Are Belong to Other People
• March 13, 2007, Papermag, Goodreads, Good Times
• February 12, 2007, Radar, Reassuring Trends
• Janurary 30, 2007, Mashable, GoodReads Launches a Social Network for Books

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"My geeky little Generation Y heart burst with joy when I found out about the social networking slash armchair critic book reviews site: Good Reads. More unaccredited, unsubstantiated, unfiltered streams of parboiled user-generated content! And you can meet others like you. Yes! The democracy of the web spreads yet further. Check out my profile, make your own and be my friend. I just listed the past 5 books I’ve read, the ones I’m on now and what I’ll be moving on to. Haven’t quite finished all of my reviews, so stay tuned." — misus spine

"Goodreads is a social networking site for bookworms--for those of us with arguably too much time on our hands...or maybe just long commutes--who devour books like chocolate and want nothing more than to discuss literature in great detail long into the night." — ohmythatsawesome

"My friend just turned me on to this site: www.goodreads.com. It's like if myspace didn't suck and was occupied by book nerds. Crack, I tell you. Crack." — kxm

"I just found out about GoodReads.com today. Why didn’t anyone tell me about this? Now we can all share cool books with one another. If Fulana and I both liked a book, then I can see, "Hm, what else did she like that I don’t know about?" It’s clickity clicky goodness."

"I first noticed www.goodreads.com four months ago when a coworker at my bookstore sent me an invitation. The website tore through the Seattle bookselling community like an STD. Soon, every bookseller under 40 was a member. "Will you be my Goodreads friend?" we'd whisper to each other among the stacks. It was like MySpace, only better—it was all about books." — Paul Constant