If I can link my amazon account and have it load all of my books into goodreads that's great. Otherwise, I still won't use goodreads because I have too many books to enter manually and I'm too lazy.
Your location field when signing up barely works at all and doesn't have instructions that are helpful. I've searched for at least 15 combinations of Philadelphia, PA United States and every time it comes up with nothing.
The location field is for cities only. We tested it with very small cities around europe, it is based on OSM so it should work in the US too. Please let me know if it's still not working for you: birke@mercurypuzzle.com
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> Under the terms of the deal, the buyers' consortium, which also includes Microsoft, will pay $13.65 a share in cash.
So the stock probably won't sell above that number, but won't be far off from it until the deal closes. Since it's a cash deal, after the deal closes you'll probably be compensated with cash (your shares would disappear from your brokerage account and you'd gain the equivalent cash value).
What if I don't want to sell my shares for $13.65 but hang on to them? Can Silver Lake just set a $13.65 value and force me to sell at that value to them?!
Yes, pretty much. The company is going private, and though the board and shareholders have to approve the sale, they can do so without your explicit approval, of course, just a majority (hence the bump in valuation of 25%). So those shares are no good after the deal closes, because the public company you have shares in just ceased to exist as a public company. Your return on investment is the per-share purchase price times the number of shares you hold.
This is the same thing that would happen in an all-stock transaction: let's say you own shares in Ford, and General Motors announces a buyout of Ford. The end-result is that you now own some percentage of GM, since Ford is now part of GM. Poof: your Ford shares convert to some equivalent number of GM shares. Do you cease to own Ford? Well, kind of, since Ford just ceased to exist. So there's nothing to "hold on to" in the sense you're implying.
