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Review from Jason H
1 star04/18/2024
Goodreads must be put in check. Any authors whose books are in their database have NO WAY of removing their titles to which they retain all rights. It makes no difference to Goodreads whether a book title is out of print or an old edition or a book(s) an author wants removed for whatever reason. All they do is parrot one of a handful of 'strict policy' rules for security reasons or because they want an author's full body of work represented. Well, as an author, I believe my rights as owner and creator of my work must take precedent over a company's policies whose purpose is to catalog and share such work for social purposes. Goodreads only cares about compiling as many titles as possible with any means to share the information as possible. The very authors who make such a site possible have no say in anything and this must stop.Review from Sinnamon C
1 star12/11/2023
Goodreads I'm reaching out to you again about ******************* and his continued harassment. He made a new account to one star rate bomb my books and Kindle ***** stories. Because he is in *********, he has no access to my Kindle ***** stories, they are only in the US. One book isn't even out, and I didn't send out ARC copies. I've sent proof multiple times of what he is doing, and still nothing. If you won't delete the one stars and block him from doing this, I request all of my books be removed from Goodreads permanently, and all future books not be posted to your site. You are not protecting authors from malicious people like you swear you do. Your policy states you don't put up with this, but here we are with him still harassing me and you allowing it.Review from Kristi C
1 star07/23/2023
Goodreads has allowed people to leave retaliation ratings of one star all on the same day of July 17, 2023 against my book. They also took my comments to a reviewer down. Luckily, I screenshot all my comments and can prove I was very kind and conversational, because they left up everyone else's comments that came after mine, and many of these comments call me passive aggressive, using my kid as a therapist and other cyberbullying themes that are untrue. Free speech is real but they took mine down and left up the others to have it one sided. These reviews are under my book Sleeping *******. I write under a pen name.Review from Lila S
1 star04/16/2023
Apparently Goodreads feels the own and have power over copyrighted books. I know several authors who have requested their books be removed for various reasons but they will not do as the authors wish. The website is a disgrace to the publishing world.Review from Melissa Y
1 star02/13/2023
Somehow my copyrighted book ended up on this site by someone posing as me. I emailed the company as to what happened. The response was absolutely no regard for this. Company does not care about intellectual property of fake accounts. Poor site.Review from Addy W
1 star01/08/2022
On January 5, 2021, my ten-year librarian status was revoked for what they claimed was "hate speech" and "bigotry" based on a list description that I made. I asked them what list and where was the hate speech. They pull up a a list I made on MY African-American culture. They didn't mention any hate speech. They only told me I couldn't exclude based off 'identities and religion.'When I asked for proof in the guidelines and why other users are allowed to create lists that banned race, ethnicity, ***, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, political views, class, nationality, even skin tone etc., they literally stopped talking to **** was singled out for what seem to be biased reasons. P.S. this is extremely strange considering that they've featured my list that excluded based off ethnicity, nationality, and race for OVER A YEAR after *********************** died.This company is super phony.
Goodreads Response
01/13/2022
Hi Addy,Thank you for taking the time to write to our team. We strive to maintain an open and accepting community on Goodreads. Creating lists with the intent to exclude books based on sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or gender identity is not allowed.If there is content on the site that you're concerned about in the future, please do not hesitate to reach out or flag that content to us, so that we can evaluate it.Sincerely, The Goodreads Team
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