BookBrowse

BookBrowse

Official BookBrowse logo from website

Screenshot of BookBrowse website (May 2015)
Web address www.bookbrowse.com
Owner Davina & Paul Morgan-Witts
Launched 1997

BookBrowse is an online magazine and website that provides book reviews, author interviews, book previews, and reading guides.[1][2] The magazine is independent of publishers and does not sell books that it reviews.[3] The site offers both free and premium content that is available by subscription.[4]

History

BookBrowse was founded by Davina and Paul Morgan-Witts in 1997.[2] The idea for the website came from a trip to a bookstore the same year. The visit to the bookstore was cut short and they decided to look on the internet for book information, finding very little at that time.[2] This brought on the idea to create something that allowed readers to flip through various pages of a book similar to at a bookstore. BookBrowse was launched allowing visitors to view excerpts of books, later evolving into publishing of book reviews.[5]

The website grew in popularity and in 1998 was featured by Yahoo! as its Incredibly Useful Site of the Day.[3] In the early 2000s, it started publishing its own reviews of various books as well as publishing reader reviews. BookBrowse also launched an online magazine that is published twice-monthly, containing reviews, previews, book club recommendations, and author interviews. It also provides a book club section for those seeking advice on starting a book club and finding suitable books to read, as well as book reviews by active book clubs.[6]

The site generates revenue by offering subscription access to premium features outside the content it publishes for free, including offering subscription access for public libraries.[7] One feature of the website is that BookBrowse does not sell books that it reviews.[8] BookBrowse also performs and publishes author interviews. Published interviews have included Jennifer Egan,[9] Elisabeth Tova Bailey,[10] John Twelve Hawks,[11] and Kathryn Stockett.[12]

Awards and recognition

In 2015, BookBrowse received a Modern Library Award from LibraryWorks in recognition of it being a top product in the library industry.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Long, Sarah (22 October 2002). "Teen Read Week Seeks to Cultivate a Crucial Skill". Daily Herald (via HighBeam Research). Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 "Book Site Gives Online Buying That Old Store Feel". Publishers Weekly. 6 January 1999.
  3. 1 2 "Incredibly Useful Site for 8/25/98". Yahoo!. 25 August 1998.
  4. ↑ Novak, Tanya; Teysko, Heather (28 February 2015). "New Product News January/February 2015". Public Libraries Online. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  5. ↑ "Caught in the WEB". Family Circle. 5 January 1999.
  6. ↑ "Join the club - the Book Club to Go". The Telegram. 14 September 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  7. ↑ "New Product News". Public Libraries. Jan 2015.
  8. ↑ Villalon, Oscar (7 March 2000). "Readers Find Their Niches". San Francisco Chronicle.
  9. ↑ Donnelly, Elisabeth (5 September 2014). "The Eerie Prescience of Jennifer Egan's Fiction". Flavorwire. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Haven, Cynthia (1 August 2012). "Authors Daniel Orozco, Elisabeth Tova Bailey win Stanford's 2012 Saroyan Prize for Writing". Stanford News. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Huff, Steve (10 September 2007). "Who is John Twelve Hawks?". Blogger News Network. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  12. ↑ Hendin, Robert (22 November 2011). "Face the Nation on Sunday: Books & Authors show". CBS News. Retrieved 3 May 2015.
  13. ↑ "2015 Modern Library Awards". Modern Library. Retrieved 3 May 2015.

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