Reading indicators on the social networks Goodreads and LibraryThing and their impact on Amazon

Nieves González-Fernández-Villavicencio ^[1]
1. [1] Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Universidad de Sevilla
  
  Sevilla, España
Localización: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik: Revista d'Estudis Catalans, ISSN-e 2199-7276, ISSN 0932-2221, Nº. 32, 2019, págs. 143-167
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- The aim of this paper is to identify relations between the most reviews andratings books in Goodreads and LibraryThing, two of the most impacting social net-works of reading, and the list of top-selling titles in Amazon, the giant of the distribu-tion. After a description of both networks and study of their web impact, we have con-ducted an analysis of correlations in order to see the level of dependency between sta-tistical data they offer and the list of top-selling in Amazon. Only some slight evidenceshave been found. However there appears to be a strong or moderate correlationbetween the rest of the data, according to that we propose a battery of indicators tomeasure the book impact on reading.