Why some book fans are leaving Amazon-owned Goodreads in wake of the U.S. election [Video]

Hold onto your book reviews, because X isn’t the only app that some users are ditching in the wake of the U.S. election.

Some readers say they’ve left Goodreads, a popular platform for tracking and reviewing books, in favour of The StoryGraph, which bills itself as an “Amazon-free alternative.”

The app, built and run by CEO Nadia Odunayo and chief AI officer Rob Frelow, saw a surge of new subscribers the week after the election, up to nearly 25,000 in a single day by Nov. 12 — which is 10 times more than usual. In a blog post, Odunayo said that by the end of the week, the app had surpassed three million registered users and was a spot ahead of Goodreads on the U.S. App Store chart for the top free iPhone book apps (though Goodreads has since surpassed it).

Odunayo attributed The StoryGraph’s surge to several popular social media posts.

Some on BookTok (the reading community on TikTok) called …