SciFi and Fantasy Book Club discussion

I’m just passing on some news I read about over on LibraryThing.

FictFact has been closed due to the issue described on their web site. I know some GR members use it to track series. You can download a csv file of your data until July 1.

Amazon is gradually forcing every book tracking site out of business. Maybe they view them as competitors to GR, which does a really lousy job of tracking series and new and upcoming books.

Thanks for the news. I downloaded the CSV file, but I'm not sure whether I'll do anything with it. Data aren't everything; the interface was my reason for using the site.

Boo to Amazon for squelching innovation instead of improving the capabilities of its own properties.

Any alternatives?

FictionDB.com?

There are alternatives overseas, but I haven't been using the one I signed up for because I found it easier to stick with one place and most of my Shelfari groups ended up being successful over here.

Chris wrote: "Boo to Amazon for squelching innovation instead of improving the capabilities of its own properties."

Unless we know what the "minor infraction" was, I wouldn't be so sure it was "squelching innovation" on Amazon's part. One entity's minor infraction is another entity's major infraction.

Ereaderiq ran into a similar problem, yet they've managed to keep running through user donations.

Damn, that was a really useful, well run website.

is there nothing we can do, they say their appeal was ignored. I find it really useful to keep track of my various series