Robin Sloan is a writer and media inventor based in San Francisco. Robin visited the Goodreads HQ in August 2013 and answered a few questions about how his debut novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour... Read more

With more than 50% of our traffic now on mobile, it was time to give the author profile pages on our iOS app a spiffier look! The new, cleaner design helps readers quickly find out information... Read more

Huzzah! This week we are reaching 100,000 authors in the Goodreads Author Program! When we started offering verified author pages five years ago, we never dreamed that one day our members would... Read more

What makes someone decide to read a particular book? Do people read on their cell phones? Is there really a "walled garden" or do people shop around for e-books? And how many readers actually want... Read more

It's no secret that discovery—how, when, and where readers "discover" the books they choose to buy and read—remains a top priority for everyone in publishing. Goodreads is uniquely positioned to... Read more

We've all fallen under the spell of a truly great book. But where did we originally hear about it? How did we come to choose that particular book from among the literally millions of books in the... Read more