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    Making Connections Through Books

    Dec 13, 2017 3 minutes
    –JONATHAN VATNER

    Goodreads, the social networking website and app for readers, celebrated its tenth anniversary in September. With sixty-five million users and sixty-nine million book reviews, it is among the hundred most visited websites in the United States. Owned by Amazon and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is not just a platform to catalogue, rate, and review books, it’s also a promotional force in the publishing industry—one utilized by the Big Five publishers, independent presses, and authors alike.

    In 2007 journalist Elizabeth Khuri and software engineer Otis Chandler, who were married the

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