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Will You Be Deleting Your Goodreads Account?

Rebecca Joines Schinsky

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Rebecca Joines Schinsky is the executive director of product and ecommerce at Riot New Media Group. She co-hosts All the Books! and the Book Riot Podcast. Follow her on Twitter: @rebeccaschinsky.

The bookish internet has been aflutter since yesterday’s announcement that Amazon has acquired Goodreads. If or how this will change the user experience at Goodreads has yet to be revealed, but fear of Big Data, the Big A, and the future of indie bookstores has plenty readers threatening to cancel their accounts.

So we want to know: do you care about this acquisition? Do you care enough to cancel your Goodreads account? Spill it in the totally anonymous poll below. We’re interested!

And if you’re looking for alternatives before making up your mind, here’s our two-part comparison of Goodreads versus LibraryThing: part one, part two.

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