Goodread: Ten Million Strong!

Yesterday Goodreads announced that it now has 10 million members! Initally taking four and a half years to reach 5 million members, in only 15 months it has doubled that number. According to Goodreads, six books are added on Goodreads per second.

Since it's humble "livingroom beginning", the vibrant Goodreads community and company has continued to blossom, consisting of a team of 30, officing in San Francisco.  The group has launched an array of new products, including a successful Recommendations Engine.

Goodreads is the largest site for readers and book recommendations in the world. Their 10,000,000 members who have added more than 350,000,000 books to their shelves. Goodreads users recommend books, compare what they are reading, keep track of what they've read and would like to read, find their next favorite book, form book clubs and much more.

More good news:  the Goodreads Author Program is a completely free feature designed to help authors reach their target audience — passionate readers. This is the perfect place for new and established authors to promote their books. Authors are invited to advertise their books to the Goodreads 10,000,000 reader community, list book giveaways, lead question and answer discussion groups and participate in discussion about your books on your profile.

The Author Program is designed for people with published books, or who are in the process of publishing a book. It's best if your work is on a bookseller's website, such as Amazon.com or BN.com, but they will accept any author who has published a book. This includes authors from other countries as well as authors who are self-published (such as through Barnes & Noble pubit! or services like Lulu). If your book is self-published and is not yet in the Goodreads database, it can be manually added by visting their site www.goodreads.com.

Get the word out! Ten million readers are waiting to hear from you!