Daily News | 10 new books to read in August: Con artists, short stories, humor essays and more
I’m always surprised when people are surprised to discover that Amazon owns Goodreads. This is the Bad Place: Of course the world’s biggest bookseller owns the world’s biggest book-based social media platform.
It’s a familiar problem on the site: authors having their new books reviewed negatively and rated poorly before they hit the shelves. And for every Gilbert, there are five first-time authors having their dreams dashed because an online mob decided a premise was problematic. Goodreads is a lot like Yelp: how many stars a book has can greatly influence its sales and public perception. Too many one-star reviews and your novel is doomed.
MC: The Main Character. It’s okay for this person to behave and think differently than you do. If a protagonist is a bank robber it doesn’t mean the author is endorsing bank robbery. Read the book before passing judgment.
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