April Early Reviewer books
April's batch of Early Reviewer books is up! This month features 66 different books from 33 different publishers, totaling 1,599 copies. It's our biggest batch ever--I know, I said that last month, but apparently we grow fast around here!Sign up to get a free advance copy, in exchange for writing a review. If you're already signed up, make sure to check that your name and mailing address are correct (here). More help available in the Early Reviewers Frequently Asked Questions.
Then just go ahead and request books to read and review! The list of available books is here:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list
The deadline to request a copy is Tuesday, April 8th at 6pm EDT.
New and noteworthy things this round:
Audio books. We have our first audio book in this batch, (Elizabeth Berg's The Day I Ate Whatever I Wanted). Love listening? Tell us, and we'll try to get more audio books included.
Author Chat. We're about to debut a new feature, Author Chat. To start, Broadway Books is giving out copies of Tell Me Where it Hurts, Nick Trout's new book about a day in the life of an animal hospital. Read it, review it, think about it. Then Nick will be on LibraryThing from April 14th through the 30th to answer questions, talk about his work, etc. More details on Author Chats to come, so stay tuned.
New Publishers. As I said, there are 33 different publishers participating this round. Thanks to all of them, and of course, thanks to the publishers that just keep giving us books!
| AMACOM | Andrews McMeel Publishing | Ballantine Books |
| Beacon Press | Bloomberg Press | Broadway |
| Canongate Books | Cleis Press | Delacorte Press |
| Dell | DiaMedica | Egmont |
| Handsel Books | Lantern Books | Loving Healing Press |
| Manic D Press | National Geographic | North Atlantic Books |
| Picador | Picnic Publishing | Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Random House Trade Paperbacks | Shambhala | South Dakota State Historical Society |
| St. Martin's Griffin | St. Martin's Minotaur | St. Martin's Press |
| Staghorn Press | Thomas Dunne Books | Vertical |
| W.W. Norton | William Morrow | Wizards of the Coast Discoveries |
You'll also notice that a few of the books are already released. A few of publishers new to Early Reviewers decided to include some back-list titles as well as new ones, to kick things off. Though we generally prefer pre-publication books, we decided to allow these less "release-driven" titles into the program.
Make sure to check the flags to see whether you're eligible to receive each book. Most books are open to residents of the US and Canada, several are open to residents of the UK only. Pay attention--only the flags will tell you which is which!
Labels: early reviewers, LTER
posted by Abby at 5:34 PM
11 Comments:
Hi Abby, some of the publisher links on the ER page have bad urls, just to let you know. Also, a very well done to LT once again. ER is growing into a real monster -- the sheer number of books is quite intimidating!
What a list! And new features, besides. I love it when things work the way they are supposed to. LT is the best.
HOW MANY books! I was scrolling and scrolling!
Huge list, very varied! Thanks.
It would be great if the list could be filtered by country. From a UK perspective, that would give me a much more manageable list to scroll through and I think it would also be handy as (hopefully) you are able to introduce further regions in future (even longer lists, including more that are irrelevant to any given reader).
This is a truly great selection. National Geographic's addition is quite neat and adds a new dimension. Nice work guys.
Any chance Norton could throw some New Directions books in? It's one of their imprints, and they're great books.
A_Musing
A great list of books! Well done LT. However, two suggestions. First, can you somehow make it more obvious which books are this month's ERs vs previous months? Also, can you organize the ERs by Type or Genre? There are so many books available now that it almost too many books to read through.
Thanks.
Fabulous! Cleis Press is one of my publishers and I'm really looking forward to Tristan Taormino's Opening Up - there's a great new website for it at www.openingup.net that I recommend,
luuuuuuuurve audiobooks.
Yes! Love the addition of an audiobook! Would love to see more in the future!!!
Abby:
Any chance a feature could be developed/implemented to allow an automatic import of books you requested to review to be sent to your library?
The synopses looked so good, I want to read a bunch of them even if I don't get 'em free...but adding them all to my Library one at a time is so time-consuming!
Coming from the UK, I'd like to second wulf's suggestion of a country filter. You only have to look at the ER book list to see why.
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