1. IDPF 2013

2. To Help Readers Find and Share
Books They Love
Our Mission

3. photo by Jesse Chan-Norris http://jcn.me
9 Million Members

4. photo by Jesse Chan-Norris http://jcn.me
9 Million Members
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5. Deep Reading Data
570 million books shelved
128 million
and counting

6. 11 million books discovered a month (marked to to-read)

7. 11 million books discovered a month (marked to to-read)
250 books marked to-read

8. Goodreads Members Are Avid Reviewers
24 Million Reviews

9. What was the most
reviewed book on
Goodreads last year?
(Published in 2012)
Goodreads Members Are Avid Reviewers
24 Million Reviews

10. Goodreads Members Are Avid Reviewers
24 Million Reviews

11. 24 Million Reviews
What is the most reviewed
book on Goodreads so far
this year?
(Published in 2013)
Goodreads Members Are Avid Reviewers

12. 24 Million Reviews
Goodreads Members Are Avid Reviewers

13. &

14. DiscussionDiscovery Author Program
New Features and Improvements

15. 3x increase in users sending recommendations per day
Just Launched: Recommend to a Friend!

16. Massive Scale
Goodreads: 18m members, 45% outside the U.S.

17. Massive Scale
Goodreads: 18m members, 45% outside the U.S.
Amazon: I can’t tell you, but it’s large!

18. Opportunity For Kindle Users

19. Reinvent what the reading experience can be.
Opportunity For Kindle Users

20. Reinvent what the reading experience can be.
Opportunity For Kindle Users
Make it easier than ever for people to share and
discuss the books they are reading.

21. Goodreads is for all readers,
no matter how you read.
What Isn’t Changing

22. Social’s Impact on Publishing

23. Books Are Powerful Shared Experiences
Reading is done alone,
but stories have always been social.

24. 1.2%
22.6%
E-book sales as percentage of
reporting trade publishers’ net
revenue in the US
Source: Association of American Publishers
2010200920082007 2011 2012 2013

25. 1.2%
22.6%
E-book sales as percentage of
reporting trade publishers’ net
revenue in the US
Source: Association of American Publishers
2010200920082007 2011 2012 2013

26. 1.2%
22.6%
E-book sales as percentage of
reporting trade publishers’ net
revenue in the US
Source: Association of American Publishers
2010200920082007 2011 2012 2013
0.7MM
13 MM
Goodreads Members

27. In April 2013, Goodreads
members shared...
Social is Gaining Momentum

28. 1.8 Million Progress Updates

29. “You have family,” Bob said. “You have a wife
who hates you. Kids who are furious with
you. A brother and sister who make you
insane. And a nephew who used to be kind of
a drip but apparently is not so much of a drip
now. That’s called family.”
1 Million Quotes

30. What if we had a chance to do it again
and again, until we finally did get it
right? Wouldn’t that be wonderful?
1 Million Quotes

31. 857,000 Reviews

32. Confidential
74,000 Authors
James Patterson
EL James
Paulo Coelho
Diana Gabaldon Margaret Atwood
Neil Gaiman
Jennifer WeinerNicholas Sparks John Grisham Deborah Harkness
John Green

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34. Q&A with 4,800 Fans
photo by Gage Skidmore http://flic.kr/p/cq7Pd7

35. Digital created the biggest change in
publishing in the past five years.
Social will create the biggest change
in publishing in the next five years.
Social will drive discovery,
especially serendipitous discovery.
Social will connect readers,
authors and publishers in new ways.

36. Otis Y Chandler, CEO
otis@goodreads.com
goodreads.com/otis
twitter.com/otown