Today Shelf Awareness is introducing a new design for Shelf Awareness for Readers, our weekly publication for consumers, to make it easier for readers to discover books to buy at indie bookstores. With the new look, book reviews are featured prominently, and each reviewed title includes an image of the cover and a summary of the review. The reading experience is smooth: the new design helps readers easily find great books in many genres, learn more about their favorite authors' creative processes, and rediscover great backlist titles.
The new design offers advanced customization for our bookstore partners, who now have more options for tailoring their messages, choosing which books to highlight, and choosing features to include or exclude. Stores that want a free, professional review publication to send to their customers without having to labor over it can do so.
Shelf Awareness for Readers continues to allow partner bookstores to feature information specific to the store (such as a list of author events) and provides a special click-through system that sends customers directly to the store's listing of books on its own website.
If your bookstore would like to learn more about deploying this powerful, free marketing tool, please write to bookstores@shelf-awareness.com.
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