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 |
Labels: early reviewers, LTER
posted by Sonya at 12:00 PM
23 Comments:
I noticed that the post says the countries the books can be sent to for this month are "US, Canada, the UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Israel", but one of the book on the list ("The Virgin Knows") seems to be flagged Italy too. Is this a mistake? Or is it the French flag?
I'm still only seeing the December batch.
The flags in the paragraph at the top of the page are samples so you know what to look for. Where a book can be shipped is determined by the publisher and is set on a per book basis. So, for instance, if you wanted
An Incomplete Revenge by Jacqueline Winspear you have to be in the US because that's the only flag under the 'request link'. Make sense? Thanks, please feel free to post back here or email me (mike@librarything.com) if you have additional questions. -Mike
Philip, Thanks for pointing that out. They were there but they sank to the bottom of the page (which isn't much better than them not being there). Fixed. Thanks again. -Mike
Nice,
but the current list is worse than useless to non-US residents.
Can't you at least add a filter at the top to allow us to see only the books in our country with copies available?
For french people like me who could only request like 3 books per year the big list is worse than useless.
I'm going to fight that one. It's not "worse than useless." Worse than useless would mean that it was useless—you couldn't use it and therefore nobod would—and it also did something else bad—broke your uncle's kneecaps, maybe.
The interface requires you to scroll through a few pages in order to GET YOUR FREE BOOKS.
Grumble.
Ah, I hope when you say you're going to fight it you don't mean you're going to mind when you find out I already wrote it. Took 10 minutes so if you don't like it I'll remove it without shedding any tears. Peace, Mike
P.S. I made it non-sticky on purpose so we can (hopefully) avoid people forgetting they selected Zimbabwe, for example, and then asking us where all the books went.
No, just that I'm annoyed by the phrase "less than useless" on something that is just "not as useful as it could be."
Heh heh. God(s) forbid we have to work a little for FREE BOOKS. ;-)
Moloch981 commented on the Italian flag and fair enough the examples are just for "illustrative purposes" but the post says that this month there are books for Australia, France and Germany and no mention of Italy so an Italian wouldn't bother looking through the list, and an Australian, German and French person would and wouldn't find anything.
I'm not really complaining, I have apparently scored a few books in the past although I have yet to receive October's book.
> Moloch981/Bibliotechie
Sorry, I misread the first comment. I think the blog post got copy/pasted from another month and that part wasn't corrected. In addition to correcting that I made it so the textual list of countries at the top or http://librarything.com/er/list is generated dynamically so it should remain accurate from month to month. I'm going to blame Abby because when she does this stuff she makes it look easy. (:
Peace,
-Mike
Thanks, that's a great idea.
OK, it's all fixed now.
small error I think. Australia is listed in the introduction, but there is not one book in the list with the Australian flag.
>Rob
The flags at the top of the page are samples of what the flags look like. You have to scroll down to the books being offered to see what's available and where it can be sent. Or use the 'view by country' drop down list.
-Mike (mike@librarything.com)
Thank you for adding the country filter to the list. It was a real PAIN trying to scroll down and find the Australian flag which is so similar to the NZ flag.
Sorry Tim for my temper (and maybe misappropriate wording)
But i already wasted a lot of time on the previous batches scanning once more the whole page to search for a tiny 16x16 French flag between a lot of other flags.
And this time after reading the whole list i see as others that the country list in the blog post was incorrect and so i wasted my time for nothing.
BTW i consider a feature worse than useless in software that i create when the feature is there but ends up to be unused by most users because the usability is bad (High cognitive friction).
Useless features are ignored by nearly everyone but features that a user know to be there but refrain to use because of usability problems are a lot worse.
When I try to request a book I am getting the following error message, "Fatal error: Call to undefined function getBookCountriesA() in /var/www/html/er_ajax_request.php on line 26 "
My computer's fault, or yours?
Ah, sorry about that. Thanks for reporting it. Fixed. -Mike
The Early Reviewer's page says that books can be requested thru Jan 31st, but they all appear to be closed to requests and say Jan 24th. Today is Jan 24th, but it appears to have closed early.
It would be really neat if there was a running total of the number of different books, and total copies, that had been made available through the Early Review program. This might also incentivize other publishers to contribute new books to the program.
Anne, where do you see this? I'm looking at:
http://www.librarything.com/er/list
and I see:
The deadline to request a copy is Saturday, January 24th at 6pm EST.
I know the blog post differs but that's because we decided to end it early mid-month because we have a bonus batch going up. -Mike
Is there really a Jan. Bonus batch? If so, where is it?
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