Let's Rescue Book Lovers from this Online Hellscape
By Maris Kreizman New York - If you have not kept up with the latest scandal in the world of young adult publishing, it is a doozy. It involves a debut author with a lot of buzz, lies, clumsy alibis, “review bombing,” a long and sordid confession — and, of course, Goodreads. Because whenever there is a meltdown in publishing, Goodreads, the Amazon-owned site that bills itself as “the largest site for readers and book recommendations,” is reliably at the center of it. You might wonder if Goodreads isn’t just an enabler of scandal but the problem itself.