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mattmanser
on Dec 13, 2020
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Goodreads plans to retire API access, disables exi...
You're missing his larger point by focusing on the first few sentences.
Effectively the only reason it's not supporting itself is precisely because Amazon bought it.
YetAnotherNick
on Dec 13, 2020
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The only reason it was supporting itself previously is because investors are pouring money in it with the hope that some big company will buy it with the hope that they can have value to them.
wpietri
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Nope. Per Crunchbase, Goodreads took only $2.8m in funding to cover the more than 6 years they were in operation.
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Effectively the only reason it's not supporting itself is precisely because Amazon bought it.