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Friday, December 4th, 2009

December Early Reviewer books

The December 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 73 books this month, and a grand total of 1679 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, December 21st at 6PM EST. It’s earlier than usual, to account for all the end-of-the-year holidays.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to many many countries—too many to list here! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Penguin Baby Ice Dog Press Weiser Books
Conari Press Bloomsbury Canongate Books
The University of Akron Press The Permanent Press Beacon Press
Henry Holt and Company Faber and Faber Hunter House
Bantam Doubleday Books Delacorte Press
Random House Langdon Street Press Bascom Hill Books
Random House Trade Paperbacks St. Martin’s Press Putnam Books
W.W. Norton Center Street Cemetery Dance
Ballantine Books North Atlantic Books Faith Words
Hachette Book Group HarperCollins Riverhead Books
Rovira i Virgili University Press Kregel Publications Bethany House
Hesperus Press Hyperion Books Harper Paperbacks
HighBridge Harper Picador
Knopf Canada

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Friday, November 6th, 2009

November Early Reviewer books

The November 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 102 books this month, and a grand total of 3571 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Saturday, November 28th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to many many countries—too many to list here! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Kensington Publishing Dafina Citadel Press
Bell Bridge Books The Permanent Press Open Letter
Penguin Red Hen Press Bloomsbury
W.W. Norton Bantam Ballantine Books
International Publishers Marketing Human Kinetics St. Martin’s Paperbacks
St. Martin’s Griffin Weiser Books Conari Press
Tor Books Universalis Publishing Doubleday Books
O’Reilly South Dakota State Historical Society Press HarperCollins
Bascom Hill Books Rovira i Virgili University Press Bethany House
Small Beer Press Little, Brown and Company Grand Central Publishing
St. Martin’s Press Orca Book Publishers Picador
Pocket Books Avon Books Harper Paperbacks
Viking Books Putnam Books Random House
Henry Holt and Company Faber and Faber

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Tuesday, October 6th, 2009

October Early Reviewer Books

The October 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 55 books this month, and a grand total of 1590 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, October 23rd at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Andorra, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Spain and Sweden. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Catalan books. A special treat this month–we have a Catalan publisher (Rovira i Virgili University Press) participating, who is offering a few books in Catalan! There are only 5 copies available for each of the books from Rovira i Virgili University Press, since they’re testing the waters to see what kind of audience there will be for Catalan books.

And of course, thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Kensington Publishing Dafina Citadel Press
B&H Publishing Group Bleak House Books South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Delacorte Press New York Review Books New American Library
Little, Brown and Company Barbour Books Rovira i Virgili University Press
Self-Counsel Press 5 Spot The Permanent Press
Hunter House Harper Paperbacks Avon Books
Random House Springer Faber and Faber
Picador Open Letter York House Press
Bloomsbury Orca Book Publishers Timber Press
Bethany House Bell Bridge Books Doubleday Books
HarperCollins

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Wednesday, September 9th, 2009

September Early Reviewer books

The September 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 59 books this month, and a grand total of 1310 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, September 25th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Denmark, European Union, Hong Kong, Iceland, India, Ireland, Isle of Man, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Bloomberg Press Weiser Books The Permanent Press
Bell Bridge Books Tilbury House Kensington Publishing
Dafina Citadel Press Bloomsbury
B&H Publishing Group New York Review Books St. Martin’s Minotaur
Faith Words Hachette Book Group St. Martin’s Griffin
Orca Book Publishers Random House BelleBooks
Picador Gefen Publishing House Bleak House Books
HighBridge University of Wisconsin Press Barbour Books
Osprey Publishing Beach Books Doubleday Books
Kiwi Publishing Henry Holt and Company How To Books
HarperCollins Brandeis University Press University Press of New England
Bascom Hill Books

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Friday, August 28th, 2009

Early Reviewers – September bonus batch

We have a small bonus batch of Early Reviewers up right now. The September bonus batch (hey, we’re *almost* to September!) has only 25 copies of one book from Riverhead Books in it, but we think it’s pretty fitting book for LibraryThing…

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, September 7th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US only. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Thursday, August 6th, 2009

August Early Reviewer Books

The August 2009 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 64 books this month, and a grand total of 1,585 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, August 26th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Knopf Canada HarperCollins B&H Publishing Group
Conari Press Weiser Books The Permanent Press
Scribner New American Library Scholastic
St. Martin’s Griffin South Dakota State Historical Society Press McBooks Press
Seren Barbour Books Bloomsbury
Delacorte Press St. Martin’s Minotaur The Overlook Press
Broadway Books Dorchester Publishing Picador
Tilbury House Random House Kensington Publishing
Souls of My Sisters Citadel Press Dafina
Other Press New York Review Books Minted Prose
The Little Bookroom Aquila Polonica W.W. Norton
Little, Brown and Company Candlewick Spiegel & Grau
Chin Music Press Henry Holt and Company Hyperion Books

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters??

Quirk Books, the publisher responsible for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (which has been on or near the top LibraryThing’s “Popular this Month” list since May) has announced a new title: Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters. I haven’t read P&P&Z yet, but I know Sonya and Tim both enjoyed it…

Ben H. Winters, the author of the upcoming Sense and Sensiblity and Sea Monsters was interviewed in EW’s Shelf Life recently, where he said:

I feel like people who really love Austen get it. Her novels are so strong, so cleverly constructed, so smart and dry, they really lend themselves to over-the-top violence.

Were truer words ever spoken?

The books’ trailer

Meanwhile, the author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame Smith, is now working on Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter for Grand Central. That one I can’t wait to read.

At any rate, we’ll have to see if we can get some copies for Early Reviewers.

Hat tip Speakeasy, a WSJ blog.

Labels: early reviewers, pride and prejudice and zombies, quirk books

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

July Early Reviewer Books

The July batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 63 books this month, and a grand total of 1622 copies to give out. We’ve also got a new Early Reviewers feature announcement—Books you’ve won. More on that below.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, July 24th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada and the UK. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Books you’ve won: We’ve added an easy way to track all the books you’ve won from Early Reviewers. The Books you’ve won page lets you keep track of the books you’ve won, reviewed, and whether a book has actually been received. More on the feature in this blog post.

And as always, our thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Hachette Book Group Crossway Vintage Canada
HarperCollins Bell Bridge Books Workman Publishing
Conari Press Bloomberg Press Bantam
Random House Henry Holt and Company Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company
Hyperion Books Beacon Press The Dial Press
Orca Book Publishers DK Publishing Faber and Faber
St. Martin’s Minotaur St. Martin’s Griffin Pronghorn Press
Okri Books Bloomsbury Bethany House
Red Hen Press Loving Healing Press Leucrota Press
DiaMedica ArbeitenZeit Media The New York Literary Society
Tilbury House Brandeis University Press Unbridled Books

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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Early Reviewer Books You’ve Won

We’ve* added an easy way to keep track of all the books you’ve won from Early Reviewers. This new page shows you all the books you’ve won and whether you’ve written your reviews yet. You can also mark if you haven’t received a book yet, so that the lack of a review won’t count against you. Once your LTER book comes in the mail, you can mark it received and then add it to your library right from this page.

Books you’ve won

As we say in the Rules and Conditions for Early Reviewers:

You are not legally obligated to review books you receive through LTER. But subsequent LTER dispersal decisions may take your number of reviewed and unreviewed books into account. A book will be considered “reviewed” if a review is posted to LibraryThing and is comprised of at least 25 words and not obviously nonsense. Reviews may include but not solely consist of a URL.

So write those reviews!

Talk about it in this Talk thread.

Note: You’re not required to actually mark whether or not you’ve received the book. If you’ve reviewed it, we’re going to assume you got your copy. The received data is mainly so we can keep track of books that have gone missing in the mail.

Update: The next step is to add a similar page for Member Giveaway books. We’re doing it as a separate page since the requirements are somewhat different between Early Reviewers and Member Giveaways. But the MG page will also let you see what you’ve won, mark books as received or not, and (importantly) remind you whether or not the member requested a review with the giveaway.

*Credit goes to Luke—thanks for building this!

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

June Early Reviewer Books

The June batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 68 books this month, and a grand total of 1,796 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, June 26th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

And if you haven’t been paying attention, we just released Collections. This is great for Early Reviewers who need to review their book but don’t necessarily want to keep it in their library. Just make an Early Reviewers collection, and put the book there. That way the book (and review) stay associated with you, but you can, if you like, keep it separate from Your Library!

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Howard Books Canongate Books HarperCollins
Crossway Scribner Raven Tree Press
Touchstone Steerforth Press Bloomsbury
Hachette Book Group Ecco Demos Medical Publishing
Bantam Open Letter WaterBrook Press
Doubleday Canada Bottletree Books HighBridge
Chin Music Press Bell Bridge Books Henry Holt and Company
Orca Book Publishers Delacorte Press Workman Publishing
Bethany House Scholastic Masterstroke
St. Martin’s Press St. Martin’s Minotaur Ballantine Books
St. Martin’s Griffin Beaufort Books Conari Press
Bancroft Press The Permanent Press Skyhorse Publishing
Phoenix Books WEbook Viking Books

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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

May Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books

This month we have a special bonus batch of Early Reviewer books! The May Bonus batch includes 7 books and a grand total of 185 copies to give out.

For a special treat, Random House is giving away books from two recent Pulitzer Prize winners. Jon Meacham for American Lion and Elizabeth Strout for Olive Kitteridge.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, June 5th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This batch of books can be sentonly to members in the US. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Random House Open Letter
Ballantine Books Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company

Labels: bonus batch, early reviewers, LTER, random house

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

May Early Reviewer Books

The May batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 61 books this month, and a grand total of 1,569 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, May 29th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada and the UK. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Howard Books W.W. Norton HarperCollins
Canongate Books Litwin Books Tradewind Books
St. Martin’s Griffin The Permanent Press Shambhala
WaterBrook Press Leucrota Press Newmarket Press
Henry Holt and Company Crossway Beacon Press
Scribner Bantam Touchstone
Knopf Manic D Press Doubleday Canada
St. Martin’s Press Raven Tree Press Solutions
Delta North Atlantic Books Faber and Faber
Bell Bridge Books Bloomsbury Workman Publishing
South Dakota State Historical Society Press

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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

London Book Fair

A few weeks ago I flew across the pond to speak at the London Book Fair. The panel* I was on focused on books and marketing in an online world. I talked about how traditional marketing is seen as just spam when it comes onto social networking sites (the “hi, want to be my friend? buy my book!” posts endear no one), and how authors need to genuinely participate and become part of the community online.

On LibraryThing, there are a number of ways for authors and publishers to become involved. I talked about Early Reviewers, of course, but also Author Chats, LibraryThing Local (add upcoming readings!), and our (upcoming) author interviews.

I spent the rest of the fair walking around to publisher booths, inviting them to join Early Reviewers. We have a majority of the big publishers in the US participating, but only a handful in the rest of the world. Part of this trip was to attempt to remedy that, one country at a time (if LibraryThing wants to fund an Abby world tour, that’s fine by me)! I talked to many UK publishers, and hopefully we’ll see some books available to more countries on the Early Reviewers lists soon!

And, of course, London was great fun. I’d only ever been to England on layovers before (meaning, I’d been to Heathrow, but not beyond the airport walls!). In the evenings I played tourist and walked all over the city. I only went inside a few places, but the highlight was definitely the underground The Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms.

*See Lance Fensterman’s (my fellow panelist and director of BookExpo America) post about the panel here, and the moderator, Chad Post’s here.

Labels: author chat, authors, early reviewers, London Book Fair, publishers

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

April Early Reviewer Books

The April batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 43 books this month, and a total of 1,129 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, April 24th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Little, Brown and Company Crossway MSI Press
St. Martin’s Griffin Howard Books Hampton Roads Publishing Company
WaterBrook Press Hachette Book Group Algonquin Books
Picador Other Press Doubleday Books
The Permanent Press Beacon Press HarperCollins
Between the Lines Bethany House Chosen Books
Vanderbilt University Press Orca Book Publishers Litwin Books
St. Martin’s Press North Atlantic Books McClelland & Stewart
HighBridge Broadway Books Riverhead Books

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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

March Bonus Batch of Early Reviewer Books

This month we have a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books—13 different books and a grand total of 405 copies to give out.

Make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, *please* check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, April 3rd at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil and Spain. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country. Oh, and check out the Spanish language book!

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Faber and Faber St. Martin’s Griffin Broadway Books
MSI Press HarperCollins The Permanent Press
Hachette Book Group Ballantine Books Spiegel & Grau
Random House

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009

Authors: Free barcode scanner or tshirt for all!

I love authors. I love them so much I married one! LibraryThing has a whole host of special features to encourage authors to join, and make the most of the site.

So it comes as a surprise to hear LibraryThing called anti-author. (What we are, is against pay-for-review schemes, and authors who think LibraryThing is for posting advertisements and not engaging with anyone.)

So, we’re going to prove it. Until May 1, authors willing to join up, become LibraryThing authors and add some books, get a free CueCat barcode scanner, shipped for free. If you’d rather get a t-shirt, we’ll send one of those instead.

The rules:

  • This applies to new members, or members with less than fifty books added today.
  • Your LibraryThing author page has to show at least 10 members with one of your books.
  • You have to add fifty books to qualify for the scanner.
  • Or: If you have 100 members with one of your books or have had a book on LibraryThing Early Reviewers, we’ll send you the scanner before you catalog fifty books.

How to do it:

  1. Sign up for an account.
  2. Send an email to Abby at info@librarything.com to become listed as an official LibraryThing author.
  3. When you meet the rules, send Abby your address and we’ll send you the CueCat and/or t-shirt.

More for authors on LibraryThing. There are a number of other ways authors can use LibraryThing:

  • If you’re interested in providing copies of your new books for LibraryThing members to review, check out Member Giveaways or have your publisher participate in Early Reviewers.
  • If you’d like to give your fans a chance to chat with you, sign up for an Author Chat.
  • If you have upcoming readings or events, you can add them to LibraryThing Local.

UPDATE: Let us catalog your library! If you are a really “big” author, a LibraryThing Flash Mob Cataloging mob will come to your house and catalog all your books for you! We won’t tell anyone where you live, bother the cat or steal the silverware. You get a high-quality catalog entered by librarians and book nerds. We get the fun of cataloging an interesting library. (Yes, we think this stuff is fun.)

We tried to get this offer to Jon Updike, after doing his church, but he died soon after. (Jeremy and the Legacy Library crew REALLY hopes his library is not broken up and unrecorded, like Arthur Schlesinger, Jr’s!) We’ve also offered to do Neil Gaiman’s, so far without success. I now extend our invitation to Steven King, a fellow Mainer, and indeed close neighbor to Katya, librarian and flash-mob cataloging’s “original cataloging” maven. Anyone got King’s email? (Rhetorical question.)

Labels: author chat, authors, cuecat, cuecats, early reviewers, LTER

Thursday, March 5th, 2009

March Early Reviewer Books

The March batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This is, by far, our largest batch of Early Reviewer books yet. We’ve got 72 books this month, and a grand total of 2,140 copies to give out. There’s literary fiction, poetry, chick lit, Christian fiction, historical fiction, young adult books, cookbooks, mystery, memoirs, and non-fiction books ranging in topics from going green to wilderness survival to travel and adventure to self-help and more!

We also have a variety of formats this month, including a few ebooks and audiobooks. If the book on offer isn’t one that you can physically hold, it’s noted in the title (“audio edition”) or at the beginning of the description (“this is an ebook”).

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Monday, March 23rd at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Crossway Canongate Books Springboard Press
Picador W.W. Norton Santa Fe Writer’s Project
Beacon Press Penguin B&H Publishing Group
Hachette Book Group Grand Central Publishing Candlewick
Ballantine Books North Atlantic Books Menasha Ridge Press
Clerisy Press St. Martin’s Griffin Tyndale House Publishers
HarperCollins Bloomberg Press HighBridge
Bell Bridge Books Watkins & McKay Blue Steel Press
Bethany House Little, Brown and Company BookViewCafe
Howard Books Broadway Books Hyperion Books
Riverhead Books Scholastic Unbridled Books
Tor Books New York Review Books Melville House
DK Publishing St. Martin’s Press The Overlook Press
Orca Book Publishers Andrews McMeel Publishing Random House

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Monday, February 9th, 2009

February Early Reviewer books

The February batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 68 books this month, and a grand total of 1760 copies to give out.

(Not enough books to choose from, you say? Check out our new Member Giveaway program as well. Member Giveaways is like Early Reviewers, but isn’t limited to select publishers–any author or member can post books! We launched it last week, and currently there are 285 copies of 70 books being given away. Combined with the February batch of Early Reviewer books, that’s 2045 copies of 138 different books available right now!)

First, make sure to sign up (one sign up for both Early Reviewers and Member Giveaways). If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct. Then request away!

The list of available Early Reviewer books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy from the February batch of Early Reviewers books is Wednesday, February 25th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month’s batch of Early Reviewer books has publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel, Australia, France and Germany. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

St. Martin’s Press Candlewick Henry Holt and Company
Tyndale House Publishers Crossway Bethany House
Beacon Press Springboard Press Doubleday Canada
Hyperion Books Firecrest Books PublicAffairs
Other Press DiaMedica HarperCollins
Faber and Faber Harper Bond Street Books
DK Publishing Demos Medical Publishing Orbit Books
Picador Grand Central Publishing W.W. Norton
Springer The Permanent Press Hampton Roads Publishing Company
Shambhala MSI Press Pomegranate
Atria Books Curbstone Press St. Martin’s Minotaur
Andrews McMeel Publishing Ballantine Books Orca Book Publishers
Tarcher B&H Publishing Group

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Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

Member Giveaways: Early Reviewers for everyone

We’ve just introduced a major new feature: Member Giveaway, a simple but flexible way for authors to get review copies into readers’ hands, and other members to clean out their attics!

Member Giveaway is built on top of our Early Reviewers program, which invites publishers to send LibraryThing members pre-publication copies of upcoming books. It has been a huge success, often giving out more than 1,500 books per month. But Early Reviewers has strict rules on participating, quantity and release dates, to keep up quality and encourage publishers to send out as many copies as they could spare.

Member Giveaway differs from Early Reviewers in a couple of ways:

  • Any LibraryThing member can participate.
  • There are no quantity restrictions. You can post a single book or a hundred.
  • Books do not need to be pre-release or even new.
  • Members are encouraged to review Giveaway books, but not reviewing them cannot hurt you.
  • Giveaway selection is random, not based on a similar-books algorithm. To discourage sockpuppetry, requesting members must have cataloged at least fifty books or be a premium (ie., paid) member.
  • Early Reviewers has a bird, but Member Giveaways uses squirrels. As you know, squirrels are lovely, sociable animals who share books readily.

Some other fun details:

  • If you’ve signed up for Early Reviewers, you are ready for Member Giveaways. The two programs have the same sign-up.
  • When you post a book you have a lot of options, including length of time it will last and where you’re willing to send it.
  • The sending member is responsible for all shipping. If you request and receive a book, the sending member will get your shipping address.

We made Member Giveaway for authors who couldn’t get their publisher to sign on to Early Reviewers, couldn’t get enough copies together or whose book was already out. (Early Reviewers also does not allow most self-published works, which has angered a few members, but both publishers and members reacted strongly when we included self-published books before.)

Publishers and authors aside we wanted to give regular members a chance to send good books to good homes. We have long pondered whether LibraryThing should enable book-swaps. But our friends at BookMooch do that so well already, and swapping is very hard to get right. But many members still wanted a simple way to get their old books to new homes. So, we set up a system to do that too.

We’ve started Member Giveaways off with seven great books.

Cancer is a Bitch and Beef were offered by my friend Larry Weissman, literary agent to both authors.

Released this Fall, both have already drawn great reviews from LibraryThing members and others. LibraryThing member skrishna wrote of Cancer Is a Bitch: “It’s funny, witty, sarcastic and will have you laughing out loud. Read this book. That’s all I really have left to say.” Of Beef, a microhistory in the tradition of Salt, the Boston Globe praised its “bovine evolution is riveting stuff.” Eats.com called it an “eloquent, poignant and influential account of man’s historical relationship with the cow.”

The other five books all come from a single member, keigu, Robin D. Gill, of Paraverse Press, which promises bilingual books “at a monolingual price.”

The books consist of Japanese text and English translations of hundreds or thousands of short Japanese poems—haiku and senryu on various topics. The publisher, who is also the author, sent LibraryThing a huge box some time ago, in anticipation of such a program. Abby and I, custodians of the books for so long never got around to reading them, but we will sorely miss people’s reactions at finding tall stacks of The Woman Without a Hole and Rise Ye, Sea Slugs!.

Three cheers for Mike! Memeber Giveaways was developed by Mike Bannister (LTMike) after I rather blithly tossed out the idea of opening Early Reviewers to everyone on a separate page. It took a while, but i is a beautiful, and solid piece of code.

Its completion frees Mike up to concentrate on Facebook full time, while Chris and me (but my programming time is somewhat hobbled by everythin else I do) continue work on collections.

Come talk about it here.

Labels: early reviewers, new feature, new features

Monday, January 26th, 2009

January Early Reviewer bonus batch

We just posted a bonus batch of Early Reviewer books for Janurary! Spiegel & Grau are offering 100 copies each of two new books.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Wednesday, February 4th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. The books in this batch can be sent to the US only.

 

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Friday, January 9th, 2009

January Early Reviewer Books

The January batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 38 books this month, and a grand total 670 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is the end of the month— January 31st at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the US, Canada, the UK, Israel and Italy. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

12 Bantam Barbour Books
Candlewick Canongate Books Clotho Press Doubleday Books Doubleday Canada Foremost Press Gefen Publishing House Grand Central Publishing Henry Holt and Company IAP Picador Pomegranate Random House Canada Shambhala Springboard Press St. Martin’s Press The Overlook Press The Permanent Press Toby Press W.W. Norton Weinstein Books

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Wednesday, December 17th, 2008

December Early Reviewer bonus batch

As a special holiday treat, we’ve got an Early Reviewers “bonus batch” for you. Unlike most bonus batches, this only includes one book, *and* it is running at the same time as the regular December batch. What that means for you is that you could potentially win two books this month, since the bonus batch ‘winners’ are picked separately.

The book: Random House’s new Modern Library edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. It’s a new complete and unabridged translation by Burton Raffel with an introduction by John Miles Foley.

NPR’s “Weekend All Things Considered” did an interview with the translator, Burton Raffel, a few weeks ago, The Art of Translation, if you’re interested.

Only fifteen copies are available, and only to residents of the US.

Go request it if you’re interested! You have until the end of the month.

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

December Early Reviewer Books

The December batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 71 books this month, and a grand total 1,445 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is the end of the month— December 31st at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Israel. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

Andrews McMeel Publishing Authentic Avon Books
Ballantine Books Bantam Beacon Press
BelleBooks Bethany House Canongate Books
Center Street Delacorte Press Excelsior Editions (SUNY Press)
Grand Central Publishing Hachette Book Group HarperCollins
Henry Holt and Company Knopf Little, Brown and Company
Open Letter Our Sunday Visitor Picador
Spiegel & Grau Springboard Press St. Martin’s Minotaur
St. Martin’s Press Steerforth Press The Friday Project
The History Press The Permanent Press Tor Books
Tyndale House Publishers UnT2 Vertical
W.W. Norton Wattle and Daub Books

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Monday, November 10th, 2008

November Early Reviewer Books

The November batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 60 books this month, and a grand total 1,645 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, November 30th at 6pm EST.

Eligiblity:

Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month!

ABA Publishing Algonquin Books Ballantine Books
Beacon Press Bethany House Bloomberg Press
Center Street Classical Comics Del Rey
Delacorte Press Delta DK Publishing
Faber and Faber Hachette Book Group Harper
Henry Holt and Company Hunter House Knopf Canada
Laughing Gull Press Little, Brown and Company Lost Hills Books
Loving Healing Press McClelland & Stewart Modern History Press
New York Review Books Newmarket Press North Atlantic Books
Orca Book Publishers Other Press Picador
Random House Springboard Press St. Martin’s Griffin
St. Martin’s Press Swank Books The Overlook Press
The Permanent Press Trumpeter Books Viking Books
W.W. Norton Wizards of the Coast

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Early Reviewers October Bonus Batch

This month we’re trying something new with our Early Reviewers bonus batch. Sourcebooks is offering up 2,500 “copies” of In the Land of Invisible Women as an electronic download. The first 2,500 people will be able to download a copy to read and review.

Read a description of the memoir on the Early Reviewers list page:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

And then you don’t even have to bother clicking “request it!” Just click here to download your copy.

You have until Friday October 31st to download a copy.

The author, Dr. Qanta Ahmed will be on LibraryThing doing an Author Chat from November 10-21. Read it now, and save your questions for her!

Labels: author chat, early reviewers, LTER

Tuesday, September 30th, 2008

More Dewey

Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World by Vicki Myron with Bret Witter is one of our most requested Early Reviewer books this month. Unfortunately, there were only 15 copies available—and with a few hours left now, there are a whopping 1,637 members requesting a copy to read and review. So our friends at Grand Central Publishing decided to double the number of books they’re giving out, and now 30 lucky members will get a chance to read and review Dewey. Thanks to them.

To everyone who requested an Early Reviewer book in this September batch, you’ll find out soon if you won one!

Labels: early reviewers, grand central publishing

Friday, September 5th, 2008

September Early Reviewer Books

The September batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 1,020 copies of 50 books available this month.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, September 30th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to tons of new countires around the world. Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers participating this month:

Algonquin Books AMACOM Books Andrews McMeel Publishing
Ballantine Books Bantam Bloomberg Press
Canon Press Cheops Books Clark-Nova Books
Delacorte Press DiaMedica Doubleday Canada
Down in the Country Press F+W Publications Grand Central Publishing
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Hunter House Loving Healing Press
Marshmallow Press McBooks Press McClelland & Stewart
Modern History Press Open Letter Orbit Books
Raven Tree Press Sourcebooks South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Springboard Press Spunky Books Tarcher
Unbridled Books University of Chicago Press W.S. Beetle & Company
WaterBrook Press Welcome Books

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Monday, August 18th, 2008

August Early Reviewer Bonus Batch

St. Martin’s Press is responsible for this month’s unprecedented and huge Early Reviewer bonus batch! They’re giving out 1,000—yes, one thousand—copies of Any Given Doomsday by Lori Handeland.

The book is available to residents of the US and Canada, and the deadline to request a copy is Sunday, August 31st at 6pm EDT.

Request your copy here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

About the book: it’s a brand new series featuring Elizabeth Phoenix, a cop with extraordinary psychic powers who’s hot on the trail of a ruthless murderer- and whose life is about to change forever. Bestselling author Lori Handeland delivers and unforgettable heroine and a pulse-pounding series that you don’t want to miss.

And, on their website, you can sign up to receive In The Beginning, the free prequel story to Any Given Doomsday.

Labels: bonus batch, early reviewers, LTER, St Martin's

Monday, August 11th, 2008

August Early Reviewer books

The August batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 56 books this month, and a grand total 1,274 copies to give out.

First, make sure to sign up for Early Reviewers. If you’ve already signed up, please check your mailing address and make sure it’s correct.

Then request away! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Sunday, August 17th at 6pm EDT.

Eligiblity:
Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to tons of new countires, including the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Israel, France, Germany, and the Philippines! Make sure to check the flags by each book to see if it can be sent to your country.

Thanks to all the publishers, new and old!

Algonquin Books Andrews McMeel Publishing Ballantine Books
bluechrome Publishing Cuneiform Delacorte Press
Delta F+W Publications Faber and Faber
Loving Healing Press McBooks Press Modern History Press
Open Letter Other Press Picador
PublicAffairs Raven Tree Press Santa Fe Writer’s Project
Solaris South Dakota State Historical Society Press Sparklight Press
St. Martin’s Griffin St. Martin’s Minotaur St. Martin’s Press
Thomas Nelson Tor Books Unbridled Books
University of Illnois Press W.W. Norton WaterBrook Press
Willow Ridge Press YMAA

Labels: early reviewers, LTER

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Bonus batch of Early Reviewer books

We’ve got three books in July’s bonus batch of Early Reviewer books this month, and a total of 200 copies! Two books are from Random House (thanks as always), and one is being given away by Miramax Films (see the blog post).

So, visit the Early Reviewer page to request your copy—the deadline for requests is this Friday, July 25th at 6pm EST.

Remember, bonus batches are treated as entirely separate from the regular batch of Early Reviewer books. That means it’s possible to win a book from both the regular batch *and* the bonus batch. Good luck!

Labels: early reviewers, LTER, random house