Using Goodreads and Shelfari

Goodreads and Shelfari are social cataloging applications that enable …readers to share their virtual bookshelf in an online public setting, and interact …with other readers. This community of readers can also …improve the catalog of information about those books by identifying similar books. …Highlighting facts and trivia, and adding tags, ratings, and reviews. …Here's a few of the benefits. It's a great source of reviews for …someone's book. It's a chance for authors to meet other authors.…

You can engage and support your fans, so the readers are there. …They're looking for the authors to engage with them. …And you can announce promotions and events. …What I wanted to highlight were Goodreads and Shelfari, and some of the unique …features of those two social cataloging applications. …With Shelfari, it is integrated in with the Book Extras and the X-Ray feature on Amazon. …What that means is, when you're reading an eBook on a Kindle, if you click the …button for menu, you'll see an item called Book Extras.…