Archive for August 31st, 2013


We here at STGRB are in contact with organizations that are pulling together to pursue criminal and civil charges against the organization known as Goodreads. Details cannot be disclosed at this time; however, we are looking for a current employee of Goodreads to share inside information about their organization. Any information received will be used for future lawsuits against Goodreads.

With that said, we are aware of the recent buyout from Amazon. This buyout may result in cutbacks and/or job losses – your job may be at risk. Goodreads, most likely, has already had an Amazon buyout meeting for their employees. This meeting’s primary purpose is to ensure staff members that their jobs are secure. This, however, is a smokescreen. This meeting is to keep existing staff members from seeking out new employment while they undergo reconstruction. Once the reconstruction phase is over, cutbacks, layoffs and reassignments will be issued.

Neither Amazon nor Goodreads’ upper management will inform their subordinates of future business plans until that phase of the plan has been reached. You or your position may be set for termination. Don’t let your co-worker take away this opportunity from you, so be the first to respond to our invitation.

Your privacy is guaranteed. Any and all whistleblower information received will be confidential, and we promise that NO information will be released to the public without prior consent. So how can you take us up on this offer? Easy, be the first to step forward by contacting us at stopthegrbullies (at) gmail dot com. Your identity, email, and information will remain private.

Corruption on Goodreads

In one of our previous posts, we showed you that despite what Goodreads claims about censorship on their site, they just recently censored the readers in the Mysteries and Crime Thriller group by deleting their comments and their accounts when they began a discussion about the bullying on GR and the false reviews/ratings that GR TOS allows.

Well, today we want to show you the email we received from Mercy Pilkington, the author of the Goodereader article published last week.

Mercy

So, this is proof positive that Goodreads knows about the problems on their site and is clearly trying to cover everything up.

Well, we have news for them.  And not good news, either.  Because of the bullying and false reviews on the site, not to mention the libeling, defamation, and character assassination being done on authors or anyone who stands against the GR bullies, a HUGE lawsuit against GR is brewing right now.  What is unfortunate for GR is that they think by ignoring the problem and trying to cover it up, it will go away.  But problems don’t go away just because you ignore them.  On the contrary, this whole thing is about to get worse.

Much, much worse.

You all remember Derrick from the attack on Lauren Pippa/Howard when he rated/reviewed her unreleased book, right?  If you don’t remember, we’ll show you some screenshots we took:

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That’s right.  He’s the little weasel who sparked the whole blow up with Lauren Howard that ran like wildfire through the media.  Well, check out this GR Feedback Discussion called , where the OP says:

OP

Then, scroll down to :

DerrickHypocrisy

Unbelievable, right?

The bullies’ hypocrisy goes on and on and on…

This just in.  We are interrupting our regular postings because it appears that Kobo has decided to move away from Goodreads:

Maybe this was inevitable since  (see disclosure), but Kobo has stopped using the Goodreads API on its website and in its apps, Good E-Reader reports.

That means no more Goodreads ratings and reviews on Kobo book pages. It sounds as if the decision was driven by Kobo, not Goodreads or Amazon: The company’s chief content officer Michael Tamblyn tells Good E-reader that Kobo might re-add the Goodreads API in the future. And back in March when Amazon acquired Goodreads, the companies  they would leave the Goodreads API open and would not shut off the Kobo feed. (Update: Goodreads confirmed it’s made no changes to its API.)

PG covers it here.

What do we think?

Fair play to Kobo.  Kobo is MUCH better off without all the nasty, hate-filled, fake reviews and ratings from Goodreads.  However, it is unfortunate that Kobo hasn’t replaced it with a reviewing system of its own.  Maybe in the future?

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8/31/2013: We have an update on Kobo.  Kobo is in the middle of an upgrade to their online storefront.  At some point in the future, the link to Goodreads reviews will return as well as Kobo’s rating system.  They are also going to include new review options including Kobo customer reviews as well as other sources of reviews.

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