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With over 50 years experience in the promotion of books,
publications and their authors, Irwin Zucker has seen the
book business evolve from a fairly straightforward affair to a
time when the arena has become multi-faceted with such
innovations such as the Internet, satellite radio and the
consolidation of media companies.
Embracing the newest outlets which technology has provided,
Irwin Zucker and Brad Butler seek to give their clients
guidance on the best avenues and method of exposure to
promote the books, publications and services offered by a wide
range of writers, professionals, political organizations, travel
companies and educators.
While seeking exposure to widest possible audience in
Radio/TV/Print Press and on the Internet, Promotion in Motion
provides advice on the best angles of promotion for various
media outlets and how clients can best handle the stresses of
interviewing and presenting their cases whatever the media
outlet. Convincing the public that they need your book is a
vital aspect of promotion.
publications and their authors, Irwin Zucker has seen the
book business evolve from a fairly straightforward affair to a
time when the arena has become multi-faceted with such
innovations such as the Internet, satellite radio and the
consolidation of media companies.
Embracing the newest outlets which technology has provided,
Irwin Zucker and Brad Butler seek to give their clients
guidance on the best avenues and method of exposure to
promote the books, publications and services offered by a wide
range of writers, professionals, political organizations, travel
companies and educators.
While seeking exposure to widest possible audience in
Radio/TV/Print Press and on the Internet, Promotion in Motion
provides advice on the best angles of promotion for various
media outlets and how clients can best handle the stresses of
interviewing and presenting their cases whatever the media
outlet. Convincing the public that they need your book is a
vital aspect of promotion.
We post all our reviews on the Internet with a number of
thematically appropriate areas of the Internet such as
alt.books.reviews and Pub-Forum. Our reviews are also
available through Internet bookstores such as Amazon.com.
The Gale Research Company of Farmington Hills, Mich., has
contracted with the Midwest Book Review to provide
electronic copies of all of book reviews we publish in our
library newsletters, on the Internet, and develop for our
weekly television programs. In addition to making our reviews
available to library systems nationwide in their print, magnetic
tape, and diskette series, the Gale Research Company uses
these reviews in their Book Review Index interactive CD-ROM
series, designed for use by community, university, and
corporate libraries nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
We also produce a short wave radio book review commentary,
the KNLS Bookwatch, that goes out every month to Europe,
North America, South America, and the Pacific Rim. It's a lot of
fun -- I read my book review commentary into the phone here
in Oregon, Wis. My director records it on his studio equipment
in Nashville, Tenn., and then pipes it to the KNLS broadcast
studio in Anchor City, Alaska. From there it is beamed up to a
satellite for worldwide distribution.
We also serve as an Acquisitions Consultant for Dane County
Library Services, which is responsible for 52 southern
Wisconsin community library systems.
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers
committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press
publishing. We accept no financial donations from authors or
publishers for our services.
thematically appropriate areas of the Internet such as
alt.books.reviews and Pub-Forum. Our reviews are also
available through Internet bookstores such as Amazon.com.
The Gale Research Company of Farmington Hills, Mich., has
contracted with the Midwest Book Review to provide
electronic copies of all of book reviews we publish in our
library newsletters, on the Internet, and develop for our
weekly television programs. In addition to making our reviews
available to library systems nationwide in their print, magnetic
tape, and diskette series, the Gale Research Company uses
these reviews in their Book Review Index interactive CD-ROM
series, designed for use by community, university, and
corporate libraries nationwide in the U.S. and Canada.
We also produce a short wave radio book review commentary,
the KNLS Bookwatch, that goes out every month to Europe,
North America, South America, and the Pacific Rim. It's a lot of
fun -- I read my book review commentary into the phone here
in Oregon, Wis. My director records it on his studio equipment
in Nashville, Tenn., and then pipes it to the KNLS broadcast
studio in Anchor City, Alaska. From there it is beamed up to a
satellite for worldwide distribution.
We also serve as an Acquisitions Consultant for Dane County
Library Services, which is responsible for 52 southern
Wisconsin community library systems.
The Midwest Book Review is an organization of volunteers
committed to promoting literacy, library usage, and small press
publishing. We accept no financial donations from authors or
publishers for our services.
With a national circulation of over 125,000, The New York
Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire's words, as
"the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English
language." The New York Review began during the New York
publishing strike of 1963, when the present editors, Robert
Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to
create a new kind of magazine—one in which the most
interesting and qualified minds of our time would discuss
current books and issues in depth.
The New York Review's early issues included articles by such
writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt,
Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian
Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert
Lowell, Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy.
The public responded by buying up practically all the copies
printed and writing thousands of letters to demand that The
New York Review continue publication.
Within a short time, The New York Times was writing that
The New York Review "has succeeded brilliantly," The New
Statesman hailed its founding as "of more cultural import than
the opening of Lincoln Center," and the great English art
historian Kenneth Clark observed, "I have never known such a
high standard of reviewing." The unprecedented and
enthusiastic response was indicative of how badly America
needed a literary and critical journal based on the assumption
that the discussion of important books was itself an
indispensable literary activity.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, The New York Review of Books
has posed the questions in the debate on American life,
culture, and politics. It is the journal where Mary McCarthy
reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon and Hanoi; Edmund
Wilson challenged Vladimir Nabokov's translations; Hannah
Arendt published her reflections on violence; Ralph Nader
published his "manifesto" for consumer justice; I.F. Stone
investigated the lies of Watergate; Susan Sontag challenged
the claims of modern photography; Jean-Paul Sartre, at 70,
described his writing and politics, and how he felt about his
blindness; Elizabeth Hardwick addressed the issues of women
and writing; John K. Galbraith analyzed the ailing economy
under Carter and the Reagan recovery;
Gore Vidal hilariously lampooned bestsellers, Howard Hughes,
Teddy Roosevelt, and the Reagans; Mario Cuomo published
his controversial address on the morality of abortion; V.S.
Naipaul reported on the rise of neo-conservatism from the
1984 Republican convention; Felix Rohatyn made the case for
a national industrial policy in an influential series of articles;
Peter G. Peterson showed why the present Social Security
program can't last, Joan Didion described, in a firsthand
account, the situation in El Salvador; McGeorge Bundy, George
Kennan, and Lewis Thomas outlined the nuclear threat;
Nadine Gordimer and Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote from South
Africa on the conflict over apartheid; Václav Havel published
his reflections from the Czech underground; and Timothy
Garton Ash carries on his continuing account of the new
Eastern Europe. It is the journal where the most important
issues are discussed by writers who are themselves a major
force in world literature and thought.
Every two weeks, these and other writers publish essays and
reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance,
and film—from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Kurosawa's version
of King Lear. What has made The New York Review
successful, according to The New York Times, is its "stubborn
refusal to treat books, or the theatre and movies, for that
matter, as categories of entertainment to be indulged in when
the working day is done."
Review of Books has established itself, in Esquire's words, as
"the premier literary-intellectual magazine in the English
language." The New York Review began during the New York
publishing strike of 1963, when the present editors, Robert
Silvers and Barbara Epstein, and their friends, decided to
create a new kind of magazine—one in which the most
interesting and qualified minds of our time would discuss
current books and issues in depth.
The New York Review's early issues included articles by such
writers as W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Hardwick, Hannah Arendt,
Edmund Wilson, Susan Sontag, Robert Penn Warren, Lilian
Hellman, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Saul Bellow, Robert
Lowell, Truman Capote, William Styron, and Mary McCarthy.
The public responded by buying up practically all the copies
printed and writing thousands of letters to demand that The
New York Review continue publication.
Within a short time, The New York Times was writing that
The New York Review "has succeeded brilliantly," The New
Statesman hailed its founding as "of more cultural import than
the opening of Lincoln Center," and the great English art
historian Kenneth Clark observed, "I have never known such a
high standard of reviewing." The unprecedented and
enthusiastic response was indicative of how badly America
needed a literary and critical journal based on the assumption
that the discussion of important books was itself an
indispensable literary activity.
From the 1960s to the 1990s, The New York Review of Books
has posed the questions in the debate on American life,
culture, and politics. It is the journal where Mary McCarthy
reported on the Vietnam War from Saigon and Hanoi; Edmund
Wilson challenged Vladimir Nabokov's translations; Hannah
Arendt published her reflections on violence; Ralph Nader
published his "manifesto" for consumer justice; I.F. Stone
investigated the lies of Watergate; Susan Sontag challenged
the claims of modern photography; Jean-Paul Sartre, at 70,
described his writing and politics, and how he felt about his
blindness; Elizabeth Hardwick addressed the issues of women
and writing; John K. Galbraith analyzed the ailing economy
under Carter and the Reagan recovery;
Gore Vidal hilariously lampooned bestsellers, Howard Hughes,
Teddy Roosevelt, and the Reagans; Mario Cuomo published
his controversial address on the morality of abortion; V.S.
Naipaul reported on the rise of neo-conservatism from the
1984 Republican convention; Felix Rohatyn made the case for
a national industrial policy in an influential series of articles;
Peter G. Peterson showed why the present Social Security
program can't last, Joan Didion described, in a firsthand
account, the situation in El Salvador; McGeorge Bundy, George
Kennan, and Lewis Thomas outlined the nuclear threat;
Nadine Gordimer and Bishop Desmond Tutu wrote from South
Africa on the conflict over apartheid; Václav Havel published
his reflections from the Czech underground; and Timothy
Garton Ash carries on his continuing account of the new
Eastern Europe. It is the journal where the most important
issues are discussed by writers who are themselves a major
force in world literature and thought.
Every two weeks, these and other writers publish essays and
reviews of books and the arts, including music, theater, dance,
and film—from Woody Allen's Manhattan to Kurosawa's version
of King Lear. What has made The New York Review
successful, according to The New York Times, is its "stubborn
refusal to treat books, or the theatre and movies, for that
matter, as categories of entertainment to be indulged in when
the working day is done."
The American Library Association is the oldest and largest
library association in the world, with more than 65,000
members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library
and information services and public access to information.
ALA offers professional services and publications to members
and nonmembers, including online news stories from
American Libraries and analysis of crucial issues from the
Washington Office. Be a part of it—library worker or
advocate—join today!
library association in the world, with more than 65,000
members. Its mission is to promote the highest quality library
and information services and public access to information.
ALA offers professional services and publications to members
and nonmembers, including online news stories from
American Libraries and analysis of crucial issues from the
Washington Office. Be a part of it—library worker or
advocate—join today!
Permission to reprint Bookviews is granted in whole or in
part to any publication. Please bear in mind, however, that
Bookviews is a copyrighted feature written by Alan Caruba
and, as such, use of Bookviews is based on (1) a request to
publish, (2) the provision of a copy of the publication in which
it appears, and (3) the proper attribution of its author.
Because Bookviews provides different segments each month
reflecting the best novels, books on business and finance,
cookbooks, religion, history, biographies, health, and other
comparable topics, it can be used in part or in whole
depending on the needs of the publication that elects to
share it with their readers.
Or, of course, you can just read Bookviews for your own
pleasure and, if you see a book that you want, you can
access it by going to Amazon.Com directly from this site.
WHO: Alan Caruba is a veteran book reviewer whose work
has appeared in many publications over the years. Alan is a
charter member of the National Book Critics Circle. The author
and contributor to several books, he has written for numerous
consumer and trade publications over the years. He is also a
member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors,
and the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National
Association of Science Writers.
He resides in South Orange, NJ, where he receives many
books from both leading publishing houses and small
publishers. His judgments are based on the merit of each
book, audiobook, CD, video or related item. If a book should
fail to tell its story or provide its information in a manner
consistent with high standards, you will read about it in
Bookviews, but mostly he prefers to recommend the good
books, selected from a vast flood of the "others."
part to any publication. Please bear in mind, however, that
Bookviews is a copyrighted feature written by Alan Caruba
and, as such, use of Bookviews is based on (1) a request to
publish, (2) the provision of a copy of the publication in which
it appears, and (3) the proper attribution of its author.
Because Bookviews provides different segments each month
reflecting the best novels, books on business and finance,
cookbooks, religion, history, biographies, health, and other
comparable topics, it can be used in part or in whole
depending on the needs of the publication that elects to
share it with their readers.
Or, of course, you can just read Bookviews for your own
pleasure and, if you see a book that you want, you can
access it by going to Amazon.Com directly from this site.
WHO: Alan Caruba is a veteran book reviewer whose work
has appeared in many publications over the years. Alan is a
charter member of the National Book Critics Circle. The author
and contributor to several books, he has written for numerous
consumer and trade publications over the years. He is also a
member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors,
and the Society of Professional Journalists, and the National
Association of Science Writers.
He resides in South Orange, NJ, where he receives many
books from both leading publishing houses and small
publishers. His judgments are based on the merit of each
book, audiobook, CD, video or related item. If a book should
fail to tell its story or provide its information in a manner
consistent with high standards, you will read about it in
Bookviews, but mostly he prefers to recommend the good
books, selected from a vast flood of the "others."
Bookviews, written by Alan Caruba,
has been around since the 1960’s, first
as a weekly newspaper column, later
as a monthly newsletter, and now in
cyberspace. As such, it is available to
publications for their use at no cost.
has been around since the 1960’s, first
as a weekly newspaper column, later
as a monthly newsletter, and now in
cyberspace. As such, it is available to
publications for their use at no cost.
Roundtable Reviews (RTR) offers honest book reviews for
many genres. All aspects of Romance, Historical,
Inspirational, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi,
Fantasy, the Classics, Self-Help, Cookbooks, Young Adult
Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense. Scroll down and
browse the book review categories. RTR's book reviews
are based on one question--would we be willing to buy this
book if we were paying the suggested retail price?
many genres. All aspects of Romance, Historical,
Inspirational, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Horror, Sci-Fi,
Fantasy, the Classics, Self-Help, Cookbooks, Young Adult
Fiction, Mysteries, Thrillers, and Suspense. Scroll down and
browse the book review categories. RTR's book reviews
are based on one question--would we be willing to buy this
book if we were paying the suggested retail price?
| For Submission Guidelines go to www.roundtablereivews.com/submission.htm |
Norman Goldman, founder a www.bookpleasures.com, is a
terrific book reviewer as well as an accomplished writer. If
you wish to have your book reviewed, please send in your
request to Norm Goldman at: bookpleasures@gmail.com
Along with your request, we need to have a very brief
synopsis of the book, ISBN Number: Publisher: Genre: Author:
Reviews are generally posted on Bookpleasures.com within a
delay of 3-4 months from the receipt of the book-sometimes
sooner, depending upon the reviewer.
If you are interested in having a Priority, Fast Track Express
Service where the book is reviewed and posted on
Bookpleasures.com as well as other sites within 15 business
days from the receipt of the book CLICK HERE FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
terrific book reviewer as well as an accomplished writer. If
you wish to have your book reviewed, please send in your
request to Norm Goldman at: bookpleasures@gmail.com
Along with your request, we need to have a very brief
synopsis of the book, ISBN Number: Publisher: Genre: Author:
Reviews are generally posted on Bookpleasures.com within a
delay of 3-4 months from the receipt of the book-sometimes
sooner, depending upon the reviewer.
If you are interested in having a Priority, Fast Track Express
Service where the book is reviewed and posted on
Bookpleasures.com as well as other sites within 15 business
days from the receipt of the book CLICK HERE FOR MORE
INFORMATION.
Due to the electronic revolution and the proliferation of
independently published/small press books in the last decade,
there are literally thousands of new books published each
year that do not get reviewed by professional journals and
receive very little publicity from the mainstream media.
Major book reviewing publications, such as Publisher's
Weekly and the New York Review of Books, have limited
space and primarily review books that come from major
publishing houses. In fact, most of these journals will not
even consider independently published books. There are
lesser-known academic publications that specialize in
reviewing independently published books, but these
publications have limited resources and cannot accommodate
all the books they receive. Moreover, they have very limited
readerships.
In light of this, we realized there was a need for a book
review publication that would accommodate the growing
number of independently published/small press books on the
market. We also knew it was important to give these books
as much exposure as possible, which meant we needed to
appeal to a wider audience than just members of the book
publishing community.
So we decided to add news stories, essays, and feature
interviews to our publication to broaden its appeal and create
a larger readership. In addition, we wanted to create a
publication with an edge, written from a progressive point of
view that recommended books and presented news and
information often ignored by the mainstream media. With this
dual purpose in mind, we created the Online Review of
Books & Current Affairs.
independently published/small press books in the last decade,
there are literally thousands of new books published each
year that do not get reviewed by professional journals and
receive very little publicity from the mainstream media.
Major book reviewing publications, such as Publisher's
Weekly and the New York Review of Books, have limited
space and primarily review books that come from major
publishing houses. In fact, most of these journals will not
even consider independently published books. There are
lesser-known academic publications that specialize in
reviewing independently published books, but these
publications have limited resources and cannot accommodate
all the books they receive. Moreover, they have very limited
readerships.
In light of this, we realized there was a need for a book
review publication that would accommodate the growing
number of independently published/small press books on the
market. We also knew it was important to give these books
as much exposure as possible, which meant we needed to
appeal to a wider audience than just members of the book
publishing community.
So we decided to add news stories, essays, and feature
interviews to our publication to broaden its appeal and create
a larger readership. In addition, we wanted to create a
publication with an edge, written from a progressive point of
view that recommended books and presented news and
information often ignored by the mainstream media. With this
dual purpose in mind, we created the Online Review of
Books & Current Affairs.
The Vision For Tracy's Book Nook
I have an intense love for books! I love to read! I love to
encourage others to read! Having been an elementary school
teacher, I have developed a love for children's books as well
as adult fiction. Having a new son has awakened me to the
whole genre of infant and preschool books that I have not
experienced before. I have been delighted to find a wealth of
excellent books for infants and preschoolers and would love
to share this experience with my guests.
Several years ago I opened a door into Christian Historical
Fiction and have not turned back since. I read books that
had a life altering impact on me. My purpose is to encourage
other readers to develop a love for reading and for Christian
Fiction by introducing them to many beloved authors and their
works of fiction. By writing a short review of each book, I
hope to awaken a curiosity in my guests to go out and read a
book or read a book to a youngster.
I have an intense love for books! I love to read! I love to
encourage others to read! Having been an elementary school
teacher, I have developed a love for children's books as well
as adult fiction. Having a new son has awakened me to the
whole genre of infant and preschool books that I have not
experienced before. I have been delighted to find a wealth of
excellent books for infants and preschoolers and would love
to share this experience with my guests.
Several years ago I opened a door into Christian Historical
Fiction and have not turned back since. I read books that
had a life altering impact on me. My purpose is to encourage
other readers to develop a love for reading and for Christian
Fiction by introducing them to many beloved authors and their
works of fiction. By writing a short review of each book, I
hope to awaken a curiosity in my guests to go out and read a
book or read a book to a youngster.