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Dec 3, 2018 · Learn about Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, one of the cofounders of Goodreads, the website and app for book readers and recommendations. Hear her story of growing up in Palo Alto, pursuing ballet, and discovering her passion for journalism and books.
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Elizabeth (Khuri) Chandler is a senior economics correspondent at TIME and a board member of Worldreader. She has worked at The Atlantic and Goodreads, and has 628 followers and 500+ connections on LinkedIn.
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Apr 25, 2019 · From left to right: Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, Otis Chandler, and Veronica Moss. · 219 likes. Dear readers, We have been so blessed to have had the opportunity to see Goodreads grow from an idea we started in our living room in 2006 to a f...
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- Why Did Goodreads Get So Big?
- Amazon Makes The Buy
- Where People Get The Amazon Thing Wrong
- Where Recommendations Went Wrong
- Where Social Went Wrong
- Where Reviewers Went Wrong
- Where Authors Went Wrong
- The Future
Goodreads startedinnocently enough when Otis Chandler, who previously worked the technical side of dating apps, put his skills to work for something far less likely to end in the proliferation of dick pics: books. By the way, I didn’t say a life in books absolutely would not end in dick pics. Nobody is saying that there’s a life path that doesn’t e...
Lots of articles will give you touchy-feely, “finally book nerds had a home” reasons for Goodreads’ success. But I don’t think those account for the spread of Goodreads. Here are a few theories of my own. The Rise of Teen In the mid-2000s, Young Adult book options were pitiful. You’d have your Chocolate War, a handful of bad Judy Bloom knockoffs wi...
Amazon bought Goodreads for $150 million in 2013, though founders Otis and Elizabeth stayed on for a few more years. For a lot of people, this is when things started to go downhill, and it’s hard to argue against that. In an interview from 2014,you can almost smell a defensiveness on the part of Otis and Elizabeth when the topic of Amazon comes up....
Amazon isn’t an evil, abusive landlord in the case of Goodreads. When they bought Goodreads, their promise was to "do no harm." They've fulfilled that promise, but they also haven't made things any better. Think of Goodreads as a decent housing complex in a middle-class neighborhood. Amazon bought it, and while they haven’t done superficial upgrade...
Remember when I told you how Goodreads used a different book recommendation engine? Did that strike you as odd? It should’ve, because this is where Goodreads started to get way off track. Allie Townsend in Time: Goodreads removed the emphasis on person-to-person book discussion and placed a digital recommendations engine between individual users. B...
Books are an underrated escape from the digital. When you read a book, there's no FOMO, there's no comparing your life to someone you know in real life, and really no need to participate in the book beyond reading. The book doesn't ask anything of you, and it doesn't make you feel like shit. The social aspect of Goodreads is fun, but it's also led ...
Some of the problems with Goodreads are on us readers, let’s be honest. All of this was best outlined by the whole Kathleen Hale scandal of 2014in which Hale semi-stalked a Goodreads reviewer who called Hale a “rape apologist” and turned out to be a total catfish. Lots of bad behavior all around on that one. Professional reviewers have to maintain ...
Authors scrap with reviewers on Goodreads, even if the review is not personally attacking or unfair. Authors will comment on a middling review, not in a super intimidating way, but in a way that signals, “Hey, I saw this.” This trainwrecks the Goodreads experience for readers. You don’t have to take flack from a reader who @’s you on Twitter just t...
I’m not optimistic for the future of Goodreads, but I concocted a scenario where things improve: Say Amazon decides to turn Goodreads over to an employee. Say Amazon decides to give this person a lot of leeway because there’s not much to screw up. Say this person happens to enjoy Goodreads and has some ideas to improve it. This seems like the most ...
Aug 14, 2023 · Elizabeth Khuri Chandler is a film producer, entrepreneur and arts supporter who was appointed to The Music Center Board in August 2023. She is the co-founder of Goodreads and a former writer for the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Weekly, covering ballet and contemporary dance.
Feb 29, 2016 · Elizabeth Khuri Chandler is a journalist and co-founder of Goodreads, an online community for booklovers. She studied English at Stanford and earned a master's degree from USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism.
Feb 12, 2014 · Chandler and his wife and co-founder, Elizabeth Khuri Chandler, spoke with me recently to discuss the way Goodreads facilitates unlikely friendships, the rise of literary microgenres, and...
