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Tuesday, October 26th, 2010

October State of the Thing

We’ve just sent out this month’s State of the Thing, LibraryThing’s monthly newsletter of features, author interviews and various forms of bookish delight.

This month we have over 2,000 free Early Reviewer books available, interviews with Kristin Hersh and Sara Gruen, a new feature and a list of the popular books this month.

Check your inbox or read it online.

I got to interview Kristin Hersh of Throwing Muses fame, about her memoir Rat Girl. Kristin talks about bipolar disorder, synesthesia, getting to look back on her life 25 years later — and how Colum McCann should totally be a band.

We also have an interview with Sara Gruen, about her latest novel, Ape House, which features bonobos, the media circus and a well-meaning journalist in the middle. Sara talks about meeting the real bonobos at the Great Ape Trust that inspired her simian characters and cheerfully admits to being an animal person. She also lists her favorite ape resources for anyone who’s read Ape House and wants to learn more about them. Last but not least, the interview features a photo of Sara at the Great Ape Trust giving kisses to one of the bonobos!

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Wednesday, October 6th, 2010

TOR Early Reviewer books!

Wow! Added to the already expanded batch of Early Reviewer books for this month, we have three books from the publisher Tor! That means we’re up to 87 different titles and like a bazillion copies available to you, for free, to review.

See, what happened was I asked the Early Reviewers what publishers they’d like to see in Early Reviewers. They gave me their wish lists, and at the top of lots of them was Tor! Tor! Tor! So, I asked Tor to ask if they had any books they’d like to offer. They said “Sure!”

So, if you enjoy reviewing books, like free books (if you read this blog, I bet you do) and dig awesome sci-fi/fantasy, you might want to request one of these books.

See all of the Early Reviewers books

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Tuesday, October 5th, 2010

MORE Early Reviewer books!

I had just blogged yesterday about the newest batch of Early Reviewer books, which featured 1,906 copies of 72 different titles. For whatever reason*, a number of publishers asked if they could add book to the October batch after it had opened. Of course I let them. Who am I to stand between voracious readers and a big pile of books? We’re now have 84 different books, with 2,086 copies!

If you are one of those folks who jumped in and did your requesting yesterday, you might want to go back and see if there are any other books you’d be interested in reviewing.

Oh no! New books?! Take me back to the Early Reviewer page directly!

*My guess is they were all outside jumping in piles of autumn leaves, at least those located in the northern parts of the Northern Hemisphere. Everywhere else, I’m going to say it was a case of the Mondays.

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Monday, October 4th, 2010

New Early Reviewers books are here!

The October 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 72 books this month, and a grand total of 1906 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 29th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the many, many countries. 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!

Kregel Publications	W.W. Norton	WaterBrook Press
New American Library	New York Review Books	Human Kinetics
Avon Books	Harper Paperbacks	Hachette Book Group
Hyperion and Voice	Ballantine Books	Wilderness Press
Scholastic	Bascom Hill Books	Sovereign
Menasha Ridge Press	Tatra Press	Penguin
Bromera	Bantam Dell	The Permanent Press
Beacon Press	Fernwood Publishing	Hyperion Books
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers	St. Martin’s Press	South Dakota State Historical Society Press
Second Story Press	Henry Holt and Company	Bell Bridge Books
Nolo	Toybox Books	HarperCollins Childrens Books
Chin Music Press	BookViewCafe	Demos Medical Publishing
Zondervan	Echelon Press	Bloomsbury
DK Publishing	Sasquach Books	St. Martin’s Griffin
Rovira i Virgili University Press	Harper	Navigator Press

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Monday, September 6th, 2010

September Early Reviewer batch now open for request

The September 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is up, and it’s a doozy, from Edward Gorey to Dean Koontz! There are 96 books this month, and a grand total of 2538 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 24th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. 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!

Henry Holt and Company	Kregel Publications	Bromera
WaterBrook Press	Signet	Ballantine Books
Canongate Books	Micron Press	Gefen Publishing House
Chronicle Books	New York Review Books	Dutton
Penguin Young Readers Group	Random House Canada	Hyperion and Voice
Bloomsbury	Penguin	Bantam Dell
Kanspira	Tundra Books	Nolo
BookViewCafe	McBooks Press	William Morrow
Matador	St. Martin’s Griffin	Orca Book Publishers
Pomegranate	Harper Paperbacks	Avon Books
Putnam Books	Nimbus Publishing	Riverhead Books
Nonstop Press	Palgrave Macmillan	Hachette Book Group
Faith Words	MG Prep Publishing	Unbridled Books
Kennedy Press	Mountain West Publishing	Martin & Lawrence
Chiron Books	XYZ Press

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Monday, August 30th, 2010

Early Reviewers bonus batch: Mockingjay

August bonus! We’re giving away 25 copies of the new Hunger Games series finale Mockingjay, through the Early Reviewers program.

Early Reviewers is our program that gets free books into the hands of reviewers. To win a book is free, your only responsibility is to review it. 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 the book here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

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

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. Scholastic is only able to send the book to US addresses.

Thanks to Scholastic for offering this giveaway!

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Monday, August 9th, 2010

August Early Reviewer books are available

The August 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 75 books this month, and a grand total of 1779 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, August 27th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. 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!

Ballantine Books	W.W. Norton	Penguin
Goose Lane	Kregel Publications	Hachette Book Group
The Permanent Press	Bethany House	Fernwood Publishing
Tundra Books	Canongate Books	Eirini Press
Palgrave Macmillan	WaterBrook Press	Avon Books
New American Library	Sourcebooks	Demos Medical Publishing
BookViewCafe	St. Martin’s Press	Bantam Dell
Hyperion Books	Doubleday Books	New York Review Books
Orca Book Publishers	Picador	Oxford University Press
The Overlook Press	Riverhead Books	Putnam Books
St. Martin’s Griffin	Santa Fe Writer’s Project	Nimbus Publishing
Henry Holt and Company	Aro Books worldwide	Taylor Trade Publishing
Intellect Publishing	Aquila Polonica Publishing	Blue Steel Press

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Monday, July 5th, 2010

Free books: July’s Early Reviewer batch is open!

The July 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 75 books this month, and a grand total of 1938 copies to give out.

Books to get excited about include (but are not limited to):

Brian Freeman’s The Painted Darkness, because in addition to the 125 copies of paper books being offered, anyone can stream the audiobook and download the ebook. One of the bonus features of the ebook is a roundtable discussion with authors running the gamut, like Stephen King and Jodi Picoult. (What would their love-child-book be?)
A Catalan-language edition of Margaret Atwood’s Year of the Flood, available to Early Reviewers in Spain. Click here to get it.

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 23rd at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to many, many countries. 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!

Canongate Books	Henry Holt and Company	W.W. Norton
B&H Publishing Group	Ballantine Books	Sovereign
Doubleday Books	William Morrow	Ulysses Press
Seven Stories Press	St. Martin’s Press	Picador
St. Martin’s Minotaur	Penguin Young Readers Group	Hachette Book Group
The Permanent Press	Cemetery Dance	Del Rey
Tundra Books	Orca Book Publishers	Bloomsbury
Springer	BookViewCafe	Gefen Publishing House
Little, Brown and Company	Hunter House	DiaMedica
St. Martin’s Griffin	Harper Paperbacks	Avon Books
Bromera	Putnam Books	Thomas Dunne Books
Bethany House	Chosen Books	Berkley
Zed Books

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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

Early Reviewers June bonus batch: Rewired

The June 2010 Bonus batch of Early Reviewer book is up! We’re giving away 15 copies of Rewired: Understanding the iGeneration and the Way They Learn, by Dr. Larry Rosen. Check out Larry Rosen’s website and blog, Rewired: The Psychology of Technology, on Psychology Today.

I’ll be interviewing Dr. Rosen at the end of the month, about how available technology (iPods, video games, computers, cell phones) are affecting how we absorb information. Dr. Rosen’s book is primarily about how children’s brains are rewired by access to these technologies, how the way we’ve taught is not taking these rewired brains into account and what we can do about it.

I’m taking questions from LibraryThing members. If you’d like to ask Dr. Rosen a question, please post it here. If you’d like to purchase the book, you can get it on sale, through our friends at Book Depository for US$11.49 (and free shipping!)

To request this book, 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:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list

The deadline to request a copy is Friday, July 2 at 12PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country, and this particular giveaway is only available to US and CA folks.

Thanks to Palgrave Macmillan!

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Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

May batch of Early Reviewers books is available

The May 2010 batch of Early Reviewer books is up! We’ve got 70 books this month, and a grand total of 1234 copies to give out. (I swear, I didn’t make that number up.)

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 28th at 6PM EST.

Eligiblity: Publishers do things country-by-country. This month we have publishers who can send books to the many different countries. 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!

Henry Holt and Company	Grand Central Publishing	Canongate Books
Tundra Books	Putnam Books	Orbit Books
New American Library	St. Martin’s Press	Riverhead Books
Rovira i Virgili University Press	Penguin	St. Martin’s Minotaur
Ballantine Books	Bantam Dell	The Permanent Press
University of Iowa Press	Gefen Publishing House	St. Martin’s Griffin
Jove Books	Picador	Tor Books
Faber and Faber	Other Press	Doubleday Books
Demos Medical Publishing	Unbridled Books	IDW Publishing
Hesperus Press	Gibbs Smith Publisher	Shambhala
Harper	Menasha Ridge Press	Clerisy Press
Orca Book Publishers