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BookBrowse
Screenshot of BookBrowse website (Aug 2024)
OwnerDavina & Paul Morgan-Witts
URLwww.bookbrowse.com
Launched1997

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

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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, articles, 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 conducts and publishes author interviews. Published interviews have included Jennifer Egan,[9] Elisabeth Tova Bailey,[10] John Twelve Hawks,[11] and Kathryn Stockett.[12]

In July 2015, BookBrowse published a research report titled Book Clubs in the USA.[13] In February 2019, BookBrowse published a research report titled The Inner Lives of Book Clubs,[14][15] and in November 2020 it published a third [16] in its series of reports titled Book Clubs in Lockdown [17][18]

Awards and recognition

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In 2015 and 2017, BookBrowse received a Modern Library Award from LibraryWorks in recognition of it being a top product in the library industry.[19][20] In 2020 and 2024, BookBrowse entered the Modern Library Awards again, and was awarded Platinum in both years [21][22]

See also

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References

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  1. ↑ Long, Sarah (October 22, 2002). "Teen Read Week Seeks to Cultivate a Crucial Skill". Daily Herald.[dead link]
  2. 1 2 3 "Book Site Gives Online Buying That Old Store Feel". Publishers Weekly. January 6, 1999.
  3. 1 2 "Incredibly Useful Site for 8/25/98". Yahoo!. August 25, 1998.
  4. ↑ Novak, Tanya; Teysko, Heather (February 28, 2015). "New Product News January/February 2015". Public Libraries Online. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  5. ↑ "Caught in the WEB". Family Circle. January 5, 1999.
  6. ↑ "Join the club - the Book Club to Go". The Telegram. September 14, 2013. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  7. ↑ "New Product News". Public Libraries. January 2015.
  8. ↑ Villalon, Oscar (March 7, 2000). "Readers Find Their Niches". San Francisco Chronicle.
  9. ↑ Donnelly, Elisabeth (September 5, 2014). "The Eerie Prescience of Jennifer Egan's Fiction". Flavorwire. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  10. ↑ Haven, Cynthia (August 1, 2012). "Authors Daniel Orozco, Elisabeth Tova Bailey win Stanford's 2012 Saroyan Prize for Writing". Stanford News. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  11. ↑ Huff, Steve (September 10, 2007). "Who is John Twelve Hawks?". Blogger News Network. Archived from the original on February 2, 2008. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  12. ↑ Hendin, Robert (November 22, 2011). "Face the Nation on Sunday: Books & Authors show". CBS News. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Shelf Awareness for Tuesday, July 28, 2015". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Publishers Weekly Soapbox, May 3, 2019". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  15. ↑ "Shelf Awareness". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  16. ↑ "BookBrowse Research Reports". www.bookbrowse.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Publishers Weekly Soapbox, November 27, 2020". www.publishersweekly.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Shelf Awareness, December 4, 2020". www.shelf-awareness.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  19. ↑ "2015 Modern Library Awards". Modern Library. Retrieved May 3, 2015.
  20. ↑ "MLAIssue17_2". cld.bz. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
  21. ↑ "2020 Modern Library Awards" (PDF). www.libraryspot.com. Retrieved December 29, 2020.
  22. ↑ "2024 Modern Library Awards" (PDF). Retrieved August 28, 2024.
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