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Goodreads will do US giveaways only, charge authors

Posted: Mon December 18th, 2017, 2:25 pm
by Baylou
I find Goodreads a really useful site for finding books, following authors, meeting readers, tracking my reading, compiling my to read list, organizing by shelf/topic, and writing reviews. And I like to enter the giveaways, even if I rarely win. But in 2018 they’ll be making the giveaways eligible to US residents only. This really bugs me. If they want international people - writers and readers - to use Goodreads, international people should also be able to participate in giveaways, period.

They do say something vague about how in the future they might have international giveaways again, but it’s hardly a promise.

I also understand that they will now be charging authors/publishers/promoters for listing giveaways on Goodreads.

Posting from Canada.