Jeff Bezos, who owns Amazon, who owns Goodreads (among a bunch of other things) now.

Well, I just did it.  I hit the “delete my account” button on Goodreads.  I did this with much regret, because I’ve loved being a part of that community.

Since Amazon bought it, however, I just don’t feel I can stay. I did stay on the for past week or so, to let some of the people there know I’d be leaving.  Now, well, I’m gone.

If you value books and the people who write them, I beg you to read this article from the NYTimes and then to alter your buying habits accordingly.

Sadly, we writers fear that if consumers don’t start a grassroots movement to support us, in another few years there may be no more decent books out there — consider what the article says has already happened in Russia: . . . in the country of Tolstoy and Chekhov, few Russians, let alone Westerners, can name a contemporary Russian author whose work regularly affects the national conversation.