Online Catalogs
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008More on my ongoing and daily march to market The Wealth Manifesto….today, we try a few online catalogs.
I am finding that a variety of places that will take a submission for possible review will also allow you to input information into an online catalog that they produce (or sell or whatever). This is separate from whatever may happen with the review and sometimes, there is no reviewing that is done.
These are the 2 that I found today:
CHOICE Reviews Online - Choice magazine is an essential collection development resource for academic libraries. We publish nearly 7,000 reviews annually, spanning all academic disciplines. Written by teaching faculty and academic librarians, Choice reviews are generally the first professional postpublication comments on new scholarly works. (Note: This magazine is somehow associated with the ALA.)
Submission guidelines can be found here:
The 2008 Buying Guide can be found here (this is where they let you enter all kinds of info about current and upcoming products). Since this is managed through Survey Monkey (more on this site at another time), you may want to go back to the the previous link to get the current link to the Buyers Guide. This is what the link is is today (5-13-08):
The other place I found was The New Age Retailer. This is obviously only applicable if your book is oriented towards that demographic in some way (link):
This page lets you put in a brief blurb on any new release. It’s sort of like free advertising since they have a pretty large readership (10000 store owners