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Tips for book publishers or authors to use Goodreads:

Author Program. Designed for authors to have a profile on the site and interact with fans.
For authors that aren't interested in the program, publishers can join as a Librarian and then they can fully edit any author profile and add the photo, full bio, Youtube videos, events, etc.
Author interviews & newsletter promotion. Each month we feature 2 authors in our monthly newsletter (over 1 million subscribers). This is an editorial decision, but usually the authors have interesting books just released. For consideration, contact us with your candidates.
Book Giveaways. On that page you can submit any number of copies to be given away to interested members. There is no charge for listing books, however you are responsible for shipping to the winners. For now Goodreads will drive traffic to the giveaway for free.
Q&A groups. Authors can host a Q&A group to answer questions from fans about a new book.
Advertising. We are now offering custom advertising buys, in amounts of 5K or more. Buys can be ROS or targeted to a particular genre (eg women who like romance/fiction, etc). For a rate card please ask me.