Booktour and IndieBound. We're dating.
The three of us who founded BookTour were all authors before this here idea came to us. And anyone who publishes a book and goes on tour knows that there's no touring, no stops along that lonely road, no anything so pleasant as the warmly lit front window of one of our nation's great independent bookstores. They know you, they've probably read your book. There's probably a house cat with a name like "Melville". And cookies. Almost always cookies.
It was always our intention with BookTour to represent the breath of author-related events throughout the world. A major part of that task was events at neighborhood and homegrown bookstores. Except the trouble is neighborhood bookstores are all different (that's what makes them great). That made it hard to dump all their data into our hoppers in one go.
Until now. Thanks to some hard work and amiability on both our parts, Booktour is proud to announce a partnership with IndieBound, the nation's largest representative of independent booksellers. Now, throughout Booktour, events taking place at IndieBound-represented bookstores will be added automatically to our database. Equally important, on both author and venue pages, when an event is taking place at an IndieBound-repped store, you'll have the option to purchase the book directly from that store.
This brings us a giant step closer to our mission of cataloging as many of the world's author events as we can in one simple, free-to-use place.
Excuse us while we gush.
YAY!!! Been waiting for this for a while now -- you guys are fantastic!
Posted by: jenn | August 14, 2008 at 11:43 AM
Congrats to you and to us all! Let usefulness reign. You guys *are* fantastic. Best.
Posted by: Kate Cohen | August 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM
This is great. The more of these partnerships you can do, the better. I just experimented with listing one of my events on every site I'm a part of--Facebook, Goodreads, LibraryThing, Eventful, Zvents, Redroom--not to mention my own website and a few other places I'm forgetting. This is, of course, far too complicated to do on a regular basis. I would much rather just enter it once and have it go everywhere. Keep up the good work!
Posted by: Amy Stewart | September 08, 2008 at 10:22 AM
Thank you so much! I am so new to this whole thing. Trying to promote myself is the most challenging thing I have done in such a long time!! As soon as I figure out how to navigate it all, I think will be so beneficial.
Posted by: Grace | October 10, 2008 at 05:31 PM
Thank you so much for this wonderfully useful website. I look forward to a long partnership with such creative people.
Becky Levinson
Author of "I just want my Daughter back - Coming to terms with Bipolar 1"
Posted by: B. C. Levinson | June 17, 2009 at 05:18 PM
Oh yes...so nice and well done
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