Goodreads, LinkedIn, and all that…

[This article is the second in a series about social media use by authors. Feel free to comment.]

Let’s see: I’ve disparaged Twitter—it’s mostly useless, for authors directly participating at least (your publicist might use it, though); and I’ve given my advice to use Facebook in a limited sense (you could limit it to just an author page—if they start charging, forget about it). What’s left?

Goodreads. This massive website for discussing books and reading used to be a lot better, but it’s gon...