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Booksconnect Blog Online Promotional Tools For Writers From Booksconnect Booksconnect.com, creative networking for the book community, launched by Countrybookshop has added various online tools to promote authors and their works. The facility for published authors includes adding and updating their profiles, blogs and articles and book extracts, reading guides, news and discussions. Authors bookshelves have expanded to include Julian Baggini, Stephen Booth, Gervase Phinn, Peter Kerr, Jessica Fellowes, Lucy Coats, Rachel Elnaugh and Jo Gambi Bookshelves created include, 'Books which have had the greatest influence upon me', 'Brilliant contemporary non-fiction', 'Books I'll never Forget', 'My Favourite Black Comedies' and 'Desert Island Books'. Booksconnect is also inviting new and established writers to promote their unpublished works to the book community which involves editors, agents, publicists, publishers, librarians, booksellers and readers. This will help the authors in receiving peer review and readers recognition and securing the commisssioning they deserve. Booksconnect has received interest from both English and non English writing authors. Countrybookshop, the online retailer of books since 1997 and a pioneer of various online initiatives now offers Free Books! Over 300 titles have been included in the initial launch. Countrybookshop is in the process of adding more titles to the offer and plans to expand it significantly.The Free Books offer is initially limited to the UK. Geraldine Rose, Director of Countrybookshop, said, "We are excited about these new developments as it will democratise the commissioning of books and will secure translated works to the English audience.The Free Books initiative will enable more people to access books and to try new authors and we are in discussion with publishers to join in with our efforts". Connecting Readers - Booksconnect blog @ thebookseller.com (2007-09-26) Booksconnect was launched last month. Members have joined from across the continents including the US, Australia and India. Authors have started their bookshelves - Gervase Phinn, has created a bookshelf of books that have had the most impact on him. BBC family history broadcaster Anthony Adolph has also started his own bookshelf. Since the launch of our online bookshop in 1997 the number of titles available to our customers had risen to more than 3 million. We have also built various features over the years and believed that it was the right time to extend these to include a social networking area, bookshelf, discussions, and features under the concept of booksconnect. Our bookshop, Café and the Peak Festival at the old 19th century Hassop railway station in the Peak District National Park has over the years created a unique experience for the book community in the region. Local writers are promoted through the annual Peak District Book of the Year Award and Peak Festival has brought international writers to the community. We will be aiming to create a similar but unique online experience with booksconnect. On the launch day we had a visit to our shop from Gervase Phinn, who bought his son, daughter-in-law and grandson. We also had author Ramachandra Guha unite with his long lost uncle during one of our peak Festival events. Booksconnect will provide more of these opportunities for more people. Local action groups and book groups who used to meet at the bookshop can now continue their discussion online. The network is finding family audiences - some younger people have not been comfortable with their parents joining their social networks but booksconnect is a social network that they can all join and be comfortable using. Members who have started creating bookshelves are finding it a very useful tool for remembering the books that they have read, for future reference, and remembering which books they have bought for their family and friends. As we are evolving the community with the input and feedback of readers, authors, publicists, agents, publishers and independent bookshops, libraries and book groups it also means prioritising new features required for the different sector of the book community. We are also excited about other initiatives that we will announce shortly - the launch of our online operation in India and online learning opportunities to the consumer, academic and corporate market. http://www.thebookseller.com/blogs/44514-connecting-readers.html Killer Startup reviews Booksconnect (2007-09-26) Killer startups reason for why Booksconnect might be a killer application - The site is multifunctional—it works for book buying, selling, discussing, recommending and promotion. In that sense, readers won't have to visit a group of disparate sites to get reviews or purchase items. more at http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/countrybookshop--Books--More/
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