Goodreads, one of the most popular social networks for book lovers, just launched a new feature: a full integration with our public domain catalog at Feedbooks. A download button is now available on the page of a book if it is distributed through Feedbooks, providing direct links to ePub, Mobipocket and PDF versions.
A good portion of our catalog is already linked from Goodreads, but we’ll work with the team behind Goodreads in the upcoming weeks to extend the selection (books with no ISBN for example can be problematic).
Working with social networks dedicated to books is a very interesting opportunity from our perspective: it’ll expose millions of readers to e-books. Integrating downloads is a first step, and there’s a lot of potential killer features that we could imagine around such an integration between Feedbooks (we’re basically a cloud publishing and distribution service) and Goodreads.
Update: Otis from Goodreads just posted something on their blog: Integration with Feedbooks gives us ebook galore!
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How can I add the button?
I don’t think that authors can add it manually at this point, you should ask the Goodreads team about it.
It would make a lot of sense if they added this possibility.
No, indeed the authors can’t. I’ve just received an email from Goodreads, and only your public domain list has the upload button as yet.
We’ll have to figure out something with Otis to help authors who’d like to publish on Feedbooks and keep in touch with their fans on Goodreads.
Correction, you can add a download button manually by clicking on ‘edit’ on your book and then uploading an e-format of your choice, but there’s no direct link to Feedbooks, and I don’t see how you can add more than one kind of e-format (so I chose PDF).
Ok that’s a good start. Goodreads could let an author include the URI of their book on Feedbooks: with the URI you can guess the link to the different formats available.
- Page: /userbook/id
- PDF: /userbook/id.pdf
- ePub: /userbook/id.epub
- Mobipocket: /userbook/id.mobi