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Goodreads history
Goodreads company history timeline
Goodreads was founded in 2006.
Goodreads launched in January 2007.
In December 2007, the site received funding estimated at $750,000 from angel investors.
Amazon had previously purchased the competitor Shelfari in 2008, with the Goodreads purchase "stunning" the book industry.
In October 2010, the company opened its application programming interface, which enabled developers to access its ratings and titles.
A month later, in November 2012, Goodreads had surpassed 12 million members, with the member base having doubled in one year.
In March 2013, Amazon made an agreement to acquire Goodreads in the second quarter of 2013 for an undisclosed sum.
Noting that some authors had been "too aggressive in their self-promotion" (as Goodreads admitted in an email) and that some readers had responded with aggression, in September 2013, Goodreads announced it would delete, without warning, reviews that threatened authors or mentioned authors' behavior.
In January 2016, Amazon announced that it would shut down Shelfari in favor of Goodreads, effective March 16, 2016.
In April 2016, Goodreads announced that over 50 million user reviews had been posted to the website.
As of April 2020, the site's guidelines still state that "reviews that are predominantly about an author's behavior and not about the book will be deleted."
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