by Mek
Today Joe Alcorn, founder of readng, published an article (https://joealcorn.co.uk/blog/2020/goodreads-retiring-API) sharing news with readers that Amazon’s Goodreads service is in the process of retiring their developer APIs, with an effective start date of last Tuesday, December 8th, 2020.
![Deprecation notice on Goodreads API documentation](https://joealcorn.co.uk/assets/img/posts/2020/12/deprecated.png)
The topic stirred discussion among developers and book lovers alike, making the front-page of the popular Hacker News website.
![](https://blog.openlibrary.org/files/2020/12/news.ycombinator.com_news-500x42.png)