The Amazon monolith

This morning, I got an e-mail from Goodreads announcing their sale to Amazon. By the time (moments later) I reached the Goodreads blog, there were already a thousand comments. People have a lot to say, but for the most part, they're divided. So am I.

I found Goodreads through fellow writer Fran Wilde. I tested it out, and found it had a lot of things I'd been looking for as a reader, and a few things I hadn't known I was looking for as a writer. Since then, I've been steadfastly posting rev...