anyone can add a book - I just added one of my fan novels. Any reader can add a book they like or are reading if it is not already in the database. I had to manually add a link to my story, along with all the other info - pages, publisher.
it then created a stub for me as author with no other info. It did not pull in anything from other social media sites.
I then sent a message using a form linked on the stubby author page to claim my profile - no one else except a librarian can edit it.
but yes gr does benefit hugely from the volunteer efforts of librarians.
as to why they decided to allow ff on goodresds until an author objects -check the links in the fanlore page. It reads more like a compromise plus less to police. At least it was until now
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it then created a stub for me as author with no other info. It did not pull in anything from other social media sites.
I then sent a message using a form linked on the stubby author page to claim my profile - no one else except a librarian can edit it.
but yes gr does benefit hugely from the volunteer efforts of librarians.
as to why they decided to allow ff on goodresds until an author objects -check the links in the fanlore page. It reads more like a compromise plus less to police. At least it was until now