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Internet Quick Reference Shelf: Electronic Journals and Texts : Book Info and Reviews
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  • Booklist - Digital counterpart of the American Library Association's Booklist magazine, the librarian's leading choice for reviews of the latest books and (more recently) electronic media.
  • Booknotes - "C-SPAN's signature author interview program, has served as a forum for books about history, politics and public affairs for a dozen years. C-SPAN's unedited, commercial-free format, allows for an in-depth discussion with an author distinct from other author interview programs." Other information includes: transcripts, book industry facts, and narrated slide shows.
  • BookSpot - book reviews, book stores, reading lists and more
  • Bookwire - Book industry's online information source; book industry news, features, reviews, original fiction, guides to literary events, author interviews, annotated links to book-related sites, etc.
  • Chapter One -- from Washington Post - Book reviews and the text of the first chapter of the reviewed books. Browse by title, author, or keyword of the past eight months' additions to the Chapter One library.
  • Finding Book Reviews - By Celestina Wroth of IU Libraries Reference Department; guides to locating book review sources, both in print and online.
  • New York Review of Books - The online edition; with a searchable archive of reviews back to 1963. The current week is free as are select reviews from past weeks.
  • New York Times Books - Book reviews and news since 1996; some with the first chapter in fulltext. Login required, but it's free.
  • Online Literary Criticism Collection - By the Internet Public Library; contains critical and biographical websites about authors and their works that can be browsed by author, title, or nationality and literary period.
  • Publishing - About the publishing industry; how to acquire a distributor; build a mailing list, media attention; book industry periodicals online; feature articles

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