Rampant Speculation: How Much Did Amazon Pay for Goodreads?
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Valuing a social network is part art, part science, and part nonsense, but the spectrum has narrowed a bit in the past couple of years as sites like Pinterest and Twitter closed financing rounds and companies like LinkedIn hit public markets.
So how much did Amazon cough up for Goodreads? Based on the market for monthly users, probably somewhere close to, but not quite, $1 billion.