What Readers Want: Goodreads Answers Your Questions

If you had the chance to sit down with 11 million readers and ask them any question, what would it be? As an exclusive to this year’s Tools of Change New York, Goodreads is offering attendees the chance to get the insights you need from what The Economist calls “the world’s biggest book club.”

Data is essential in today’s publishing world, but if you don’t have a direct relationship with readers, how do you find out what is important to them? Goodreads is unique in the size of its community of readers – 11 million as of September 2012 – and its ability to listen to them.

What do you want to ask? Some thought starters:

• Are romance readers more interested in helping shape the story of a book (agile book creation) than sci fi fans?
• How often do readers buy a book as a result of reading a sample chapter?
• Are mystery readers more interested in a subscription model than young adult readers?

A request for questions will be publicized through the TOC email newsletter. To make sure you don’t miss out on this, sign up for the email newsletter here.

In what’s sure to be a stimulating and interactive session, Otis Chandler, CEO of Goodreads, will share the survey results and invite discussion from participants about how these impact publishing today.