Goodreads Takes Book Discovery Around the Globe -- Presented by Otis Chandler, CEO & Co-Founder, Goodreads
At Publishers Launch Frankfurt, Frankfurt Book Fair, 8 October 2013
With 19 million members, Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world. What's not so well known is that almost half of Goodreads' members (45%) live outside of the US. Otis Chandler, CEO and Co-Founder of Goodreads will present insights about Goodreads' international growth and its impact on global book discovery. He will also provide examples of how publishers around the world can maximize the opportunities on the platform.
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Top English-Speaking Markets for Goodreads
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127%
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Year over Year Growth
9. Top European Markets for Goodreads
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Germany France Netherlands Spain Italy
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10. Top European Markets for Goodreads
(Excluding UK)
Germany France Netherlands Spain Italy
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127% 146% 157%
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As digital adoption grows, Goodreads growth accelerates
11. Starting to make
Goodreads more global
We will start by building out our
catalog of international books.
12. Self-published in 2011
Goodreads members loved it
and started spreading the
word.
The readers have been so
good to me. The reviews…
They practically make me
cry when I see them. The
people on Goodreads with
their .gifs… Fantastic. I
love my readers." Susan Ee
Re-released by Amazon
Children’s Publishing in
August 2012
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15. Goodreads has given away over 202,000 books in
our giveaway program in 2013 to date.
16. Goodreads has given away over 202,000 books in
our giveaway program in 2013 to date.
17. Goodreads has given away over 202,000 books in
our giveaway program in 2013 to date.
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Goodreads Author Group
21. 670 ParticipantsFeatured Author Group
Susan Ee
Author of Angelfall
Susan thank you for answering :) you have really made my day.
I love your characters and storytelling, you made a whole new
world seem so natural and refreshing, and I am pleased to
inform you that my very own paperback arrived the other day so
I am probably the only person in Zagreb (Croatia) who owns a
paperback copy of Angelfall!!! The panda hug is for you:
Susan wrote: "Thanks for the kind words, Zeljka.
Storytelling can be rather mysterious. I write down what the
character sees/hears/feels/does rather than "constructing"
that character. In the end, I'm often as surprised as the
reader over the result. That's part of the fun. :)"
Zeljka
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29. “You have family,” Bob said. “You
have a wife who hates you. Kids
who are furious with you. A brother
and sister who make you insane.
And a nephew who used to be kind
of a drip but apparently is not so
much of a drip now. That’s called
family.”
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30. What if we had a chance to do it
again and again, until we
finally did get it right? Wouldn’t
that be wonderful?
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38. Social will create one of the
biggest changes in publishing in
the next five years.
Social will drive discovery,
especially serendipitous discovery.
Social will connect readers,
authors and publishers in new ways.