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The use and impact of Goodreads rating and reviews, for readers of Arabic books

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  • Ahmad Mohammad Alghamdi
  • Hisham Ihshaish

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The focus of this research is to assess how the use of Goodreads can influence Arabic readers' selection of books, to study Arabic reviewers' behaviour and to explore the impact of Goodreads' metrics on book sales. Research methodology of the presented work consisted of a wide review of relevant literature, the collection and analysis of data from a questionnaire and a case study on a list of best-selling Arabic books fetched from two book-review platforms; Goodreads.com and Jamalon.com. The findings of the presented study show that Goodreads metrics reveal highly relevant indicators for books' contents, and consequently have a significant impact on Arab's book-purchasing decisions. Furthermore, we observed that Arabic Goodreads users tend to rate books rather than write reviews, and their book evaluation is mostly based on their contents. Primary research results suggest that, with proper analysis applied, Goodreads is an effective book evaluation network/online community for Arabic readers and Arabic book consumers. It is believed that the effectiveness of the studied network is mainly due to the metrics applied, which appear to be matching evaluation criteria as preferred by Arabic readers.

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  • Ahmad Mohammad Alghamdi & Hisham Ihshaish, 2021. "The use and impact of Goodreads rating and reviews, for readers of Arabic books," International Journal of Business Information Systems, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, vol. 37(4), pages 442-466.
    • Handle: RePEc:ids:ijbisy:v:37:y:2021:i:4:p:442-466
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    Cited by:

    1. Nazanin Sabri & Ingmar Weber, 2021. "A Global Book Reading Dataset," Data, MDPI, vol. 6(8), pages 1-11, August.

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