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Why Goodreads Is Bad for Books
You probably want to keep discovering new articles from new authors all the time. You want new learning experiences by matching with new authors. But once you discover a good one, you want to read more—or maybe even everything—from them. Since there are a lot of long-term relationships, there’s a big risk of disintermediation. This is the insight t... See more
Tomas Pueyo • The Future of Substack
Hardcover & Storygraph — A better Goodreads (w/ less Bezos)Websites: https://hardcover.app... See more
Harvest IQ Mail
They’ve gone so far down the rabbit hole, they’ve lost sight of the fact that 90 percent of users are perfectly happy with the dominant player in the space they are trying to occupy, whether it’s Facebook or The Catcher in the Rye.
Ryan Holiday • Perennial Seller: The Art of Making and Marketing Work that Lasts
What I liked about Reader was that not knowing what people liked gave you a peculiar kind of freedom. Maybe it’s better described as plausible deniability: You couldn’t be sure that your friends didn’t like your latest post, so your next post wasn’t constrained by what had previously done well or poorly in terms of a metric like Likes or Views. You... See more
James Somers • The Like Button Ruined the Internet
Be the Monkey - Ebooks and Self-Publishing: A Dialog Between Authors Barry Eisler and Joe Konrath
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