Amazon has announced acquisition of Goodreads. What are the implications of this for Open Library - specifically the huge library of book reviews and the user community (16 million) around Goodreads and 23 million reviews.
Is there a strategy to attract a significant number of these people to participate in OL in addition to or instead of Goodreads? I know when I have asked specific reviewers for permission to quote their review the most common response is that they do not want to have their reviews sponsoring a commercial enterprise - specifically my site of Civil War books for sale. On the other hand, I think the submission of a review of a book cover to OL specifically means that anyone can use it in any way they want. John Rigdon www.researchonline.net _______________________________________________ Ol-discuss mailing list Ol-discuss@archive.org http://mail.archive.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ol-discuss To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send email to ol-discuss-unsubscr...@archive.org
