If Amazon’s motivation to acquire Goodreads could be summed up on a book jacket, it might be with these words: The data could overflow a library.
Few would disagree. Within a day of Amazon.com’s announcement that it would acquire Goodreads, a social platform for book lovers, the pundits were rushing to post their own reviews of the merger. Some describe it as a loss of independence for Goodreads, others as an opportunity for Amazon to engage readers with interactive reviews....