Armchair ALA with NetGalley

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, so we’re borrowing the concept of Armchair BEA for this Armchair ALA post!

NetGalley loves librarians, and we’re grateful for the support you’ve shown us! Our librarian membership has grown significantly over the past year, and now is the second largest segment of our community (after reviewers/bloggers). Earlier this year we conducted a survey of the librarians using NetGalley, and found some interesting stats.

Our NetGalley at the Library initiative began following our partnership with the American Library Association. If you’re an ALA member, be sure to include your ALA number in your NetGalley profile (My Profile/Account Information) so publishers will see the ALA icon appear when you request titles. Publishers have told us that librarians with that ALA icon are approved more quickly and often. And be sure to sign up for our NetGalley at the Library newsletters here!

We’re also so excited to be working with EarlyWord and Penguin on First Flights: The Penguin Debut Author Program. There’s still time to join and get a copy of City of Women by David R. Gillham from NetGalley!

But now onto ALA Annual. This year, we’re sad to not be attending the show ourselves, and figured some of you librarians might be feeling the same. We’re hoping this Armchair ALA post will serve as a connection point between those of us at home and those of you at the show. So, spread the word via Twitter (#ArmchairALA), and for those of you lucky librarians who are in Anaheim, share the wealth and give us the inside scoop in the Comments section below! Which authors did you meet, which publishers had the best giveaways or beautiful booths, and what titles are you most excited about?

We’ve compiled a list of titles you won’t want to miss–either at the show or from the comfort of your own chairs courtesy of NetGalley.

Click to view our NetGalley Roundup: ALA Annual Preview Edition!

Have you seen Library Journal‘s exclusive 2012 ALA Galley & Signing Guide from PrePub Alert editor Barbara Hoffert? The guide notes whether titles listed are available via NetGalley. Sign up now, and as soon as it’s published, you’ll receive an email containing LJ’s insider’s guide to the most promising new titles coming to ALA Annual in Anaheim. Don’t miss out on this essential roadmap helping library professionals navigate the biggest show of the year! Plus, you’ll see embedded icons that will guide you to NetGalley—so you can request a copy even if you won’t be at the show.

Happy reading,

Lindsey

Digital Concierge, NetGalley

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Get the biggest buzz titles of BEA and beyond with NetGalley!

This was originally a guest post for Armchair BEA, by Lindsey Rudnickas, Digital Concierge at NetGalley

Hello, dear friends! I hope you’re enjoying the bookish delight of BEA from the comfort of your own homes. I’m fortunate enough to attend BEA each year to meet with our publisher clients, and say hello to the many bloggers, librarians, reviewers, and other friends who support NetGalley. This year, I’ll also be speaking on a panel at the BEA Bloggers Conference on Demystifying the Book Blogger & Publisher Relationship. But our love of books and bloggers doesn’t stop at the doors to the Javits center, and we know you don’t have to be at BEA to feel the buzz.

NetGalley has always been a friend to bloggers—it’s been our pleasure to work with you for the past 4 years as the book blogging community has flourished, and we thank you for your enthusiasm for the site. It’s so rewarding for us and for our publishers to see blogger-led contests and read-a-thons like “NetGalley Month” and the year-long “NetGalley Reading Challenge.” For NetGalley and bloggers alike, we’re sure the best is yet to come, and we can’t wait to continue the journey with you!

NetGalley is all about the newest books—helping connect publishers with buzz-makers (like you) to launch titles faster and further. This year for BEA, we’re working with some great industry partners to help bring the galleys to you, so read on.

BEA BUZZ BOOKS: EXCERPTS FROM OVER 30 TOP FALL 2012 TITLES from Publishers Lunch. We were thrilled to join with Publishers Lunch for this cool promotion, which they’re calling “BEA in an eBook.” The best part: it’s available to READ NOW on NetGalley—instant access, no requesting, no waiting.

BEA is all about discovering the fall season’s big books, from new voices to breakout authors, hot nonfiction and beloved bestsellers. Publishers Lunch has packed a convention’s worth of exclusive excerpts from top Fall titles featured at the BookExpo America convention into a single volume. Enjoy new works from Junot Díaz, Mark Helprin, Rhoda Janzen, Barbara Kingsolver, Jessica Khoury, Dennis Lehane, J.R. Moehringer, Neil Young, and many others in the free BEA BUZZ BOOKS. In addition to the excerpts, there’s even a round-up from Publishers Lunch of over 100 Fall books of note of all kinds to have on your radar.

PLUS: Go beyond the excerpts with NetGalley

After most excerpts, look for a link to READ or REQUEST the full galley on NetGalley. Publishers can choose how to provide access to the full galley, so you’ll see two kinds of links—either a link to request the title on NetGalley, or a widget link for approved access as soon as you login. Enjoy!

Barbara Hoffert’s BEA Galley & Signing Guide 2012 for Library Journal. It’s being called “the librarian’s essential BEA 2012 navigation tool” and we have to agree! Barbara’s been tracking some of the show’s top titles, from large publishers and small. Plus, you’ll see embedded icons that will guide you to NetGalley—so you can request a copy even if you won’t be at the show.

 

 

Feed Your Reader with NetGalley all year long!

Although BEA is an especially busy time, we’re working everyday adding new titles from publishers for you to request and review. Browse our catalog anytime, and keep updated on what’s happening at NetGalley with our newsletters (spoiler alert: a facelift and lots of big changes are coming—stay tuned!).

Speaking of which, here are two of our recent BEA-related newsletters:

NetGalley Roundup: Get Ready for BEA

Feed Your Reader with the biggest buzz books at BEA

And watch your inboxes for the NetGalley Roundup: BEA Edition, going out the week of the show! Sign up to receive our newsletters, or find them on our NetGalley Roundups page.

Happy reading,

Lindsey

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NetGalley Events (March)

Spring is a time when we often find ourselves with energetic bursts of creativity and planning, and that’s no exception for us here at NetGalley. We are deep in the throes of helping publishers upload new titles and plan promotions, not to mention gearing up for some exciting conferences on the horizon! We hope to see some of you at these events in March:

March 7:

NetGalley: For Authors, Reviewers, and Publishers

Book Blogger’s Online Conference, Paco Media Group

12:30 pm EST

Online

NetGalley Community Concierge Kristina Radke will be discussing how NetGalley works and how to effectively use the site as a professional reader. This is the third annual Online Conference to help advance communication between Book Bloggers, Publishers, and Authors.

March 8:

Digital Galleys/Digital Catalogues/Digital Everything: How Publishers Are Interacting with Reviewers Today

NBCC General Membership Meeting, National Book Critics Circle

10:00 am EST

Eugene Lang Center, New School
55 W. 13th Street, New York

NetGalley President Susan Ruszala will be participating in this panel along with Katie Freeman, Publicity Manager, Farrar Straus Giroux; Peter Miller, Publicity Director, Liveright (Norton); John Oakes, Publisher, OR Books; and Christian Purdy, Director of Publicity, Oxford University Press (USA)

March 10:

IBPA Publishing University, Independent Book Publishers Association

Sheraton Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel
2500 Mason Street
San Francisco, California

NetGalley Digital Concierge Lindsey Rudnickas will be participating in two events:

Ask the Experts

2:00-2:45 pm PST

Your own private consultation with experts from all segments of publishing!

Getting Attention: Promoting Your Titles to Bloggers and Online Communities

3:15 – 4:30 pm PST

Shelfari, Goodreads, “mommy bloggers”—the list of online groups awaiting your book is huge and in this session, you’ll discover where to find them and how to reach them. You’ll walk away with strategies to spread the word about your book directly to your readers. Co-panelist is Joan Stewart of The Publicity Hound.

March 21:

NetGalley for ECPA Members: Creative and Effective Strategies for Using Digital Galleys

ECPA Roundtable, NetGalley

1:00 pm EST

Online

NetGalley is hosting this session for current clients.

Come join NetGalley for a roundtable discussion with other Christian publishers who are using digital galleys to reach communities of professional readers. NetGalley will present examples of how digital galleys have been incorporated into specific campaigns and provide an overview of key new features and programs. We’ll cover key reporting metrics and present updated stats on our community and activity. The session will feature ample time for discussion and questions, so that publishers can share ideas and suggestions for future development specific to the Christian publishing community.

This session is for current NetGalley clients only, but we’re always happy to provide an overview of the site and our partnership with the ECPA at any time. Please email info@netgalley.com for more information.

Stay tuned for news of our participation at the big trade shows—first up, London Book Fair!

Happy reading,

Kristina

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NetGalley at BEA: giveaway update & more!

Oh my goodness folks, BookExpo America is just around the  corner!

If you’re already a NetGalley member, you probably got our email last week about our BEA plans. We have an exciting update, so I wanted to share the details of our promotion with all you “follow the readers.”


“LIKE” NETGALLEY AT BEA & ENTER TO WIN A READING DEVICE!

By BEA, NetGalley will have over 26,000 registered members and 100 publishers–which we think is something to celebrate! Our theme for NetGalley at BEA will be “COUNT ME IN” and we hope you’ll join the fun.

We’re bringing our Facebook Wall to life by asking all of you to come by booth #3718 to “like” our booth wall using the cute “I heart NG” sticker you see here and below.

Plus it’s your chance to enter our drawing to win one of three eReaders! That’s right, now we’re giving away 3 devices:

Just announced: a NOOK Color—The Reader’s Tablet (thanks  to our friends at Barnes & Noble)

a Kobo eReader (thanks to our friends at Kobo)

and a Kindle!

Of course we want the fun to extend online, so you can also pose for a picture with your sticker on the booth wall, and we’ll post the pics on our NetGalley Facebook page.


CAN’T ATTEND BEA? WE STILL LOVE YOU!  

Show that you love us too by putting this sticker on your blog.

 

Plus, if you comment on our Facebook page during BEA Week (May 23-27), you’ll also be entered into the drawing for one of the eReaders!

And one last friendly reminder:

DON’T MISS US AT THE BOOK BLOGGER CONVENTION!

I’ll  also be on the Technology for Blogging panel at the Book Blogger Convention (at the end of BEA).

See my guest blog post for the BBC here. Follow the updates on Twitter @bookbloggercon.

If you’ll be there too, make sure to say hello!


Can’t handle waiting another whole week for all this fun to start?

In the meantime, check the NetGalley Features page for links to our BEA FICTION Preview and BEA NONFICTION Preview to see which galleys will be promoted at BEA. Request them now for a sneak peek.

That’s it for now–thanks, as always, for all your support. See you soon!

–Lindsey, Digital Concierge, NetGalley

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BEA + Publishers Lunch + NetGalley = an app made in heaven

I’m so excited to announce that NetGalley BEA Buzz titles are featured in a special new app!

NetGalley’s BEA Buzz just got buzzier with the launch of a smartphone app in partnership with Publishers Lunch.

Browse our specially-selected galleys on your iPhone/itouch, Android, Blackberry or iPad, and then stop by booth #3905 to request the galleys. Be sure to see our earlier post with the full NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule!

Won’t be at the show? No problem! With the app you can stay up-to-date on news and tweets as they happen, plus get a first look at the most-talked-about titles this season.

Note: Though the app will let you read about all the titles featured on all the buzz panels at the show, only NetGalley titles can be requested digitally.

More details on the app here, and check out the NetGalley BEA Buzz Page to request titles now and get a jump-start on your reading.

You can download the app NOW or during BEA here:

iPhone/iPod/Android: www.publishersmarketplace.com/bea

Blackberry: www.publishersmarketplace.com/bea/bb

Look forward to seeing you at the show!

PS: As a reminder, here’s our demo schedule for the NetGalley BEA Buzz  titles:

WEDNESDAY MAY 26 @ NetGalley booth #3905
10:00 AM	The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors	Crown Publishing Group	Pub Date: April 2010
10:30 AM	Truly, Madly, Deadly	ECW Press	Pub Date: June 2010
11:00 AM	THE BELLY FAT CURE™ FAST TRACK	Hay House, Inc	Pub Date: November 2010
11:30 AM	Harvest to Heat	The Taunton Press	Pub Date: October 2010
12:00 PM	Around My French Table	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Pub Date: October 2010
1:00 PM	Outside the Ordinary World	Harlequin	Pub Date: July 2010
1:30 PM	Billie Girl	Leapfrog Press	Pub Date: September 2010
2:00 PM	The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit	NOLO	Pub Date: May 2010
4:00 PM	Safe From the Sea	Unbridled Books	Pub Date: September 2010
THURSDAY MAY 27 @ NetGalley booth #3905
10:00 AM	Taking Charge of Adult ADHD	Guilford Press	Pub Date: August 2010
11:00 AM	Vestments	Milkweed Editions	Pub Date: September 2010
11:30 AM	Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married	Moody Publishers	Pub Date: September 2010
12:00 PM	Simple Secrets	Barbour Publishing	Pub Date: June 2010
2:00 PM	Desserts 4 Today	The Taunton Press	Pub Date: September 2010
2:30 PM	Deadline Man	Poisoned Pen Press	Pub Date: May 2010

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NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule!

It’s almost that time, when bookish folk flock to the largest publishing event in North America: BookExpo America (BEA)/ Twitter @BookExpoAmerica. This year BEA is at the Jacob K. Javits Center in NYC Tuesday, May 25 – Thursday, May 27. NetGalley will be at BEA, so stop by and say hello — we’re part of the Firebrand Technologies booth #3905.

We’ve got a fun way for you to get a sneak peek at new books! See below for our NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule (taking place all day Wed and Thurs). We’ll demo a new title on NetGalley, show you how to get it on your favorite e-reader, and “pitch” the book itself so you can see where all the buzz begins. Check out which titles publicists have selected as potential breakout releases!

The best part is if you watch our demo, you’ll be among the first to view the galley on NetGalley after the show — with an invite from the publisher to download the galley and read it in full. Plus, select titles are available to request on NetGalley NOW if you’d like to get a jump-start on your reading!

So check out (and request) the NetGalley BEA Buzz titles here, mark your calendars, and we’ll see you at the show!

NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule

WEDNESDAY MAY 26 @ NetGalley booth #3905

• 10:00 AM: The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors

A Novel
By Michele Young-Stone
The Crown Publishing Group @CrownPublishing
Pub Date: April 2010

• 10:30 AM: Truly, Madly, Deadly

The Unofficial True Blood Companion
By Becca Wilcott
ECW Press @ecwpress
Pub Date: June 2010

• 11:00 AM: THE BELLY FAT CURE™ FAST TRACK

By Jorge Cruise
Hay House, Inc
Pub Date: December 29, 2010

• 11:30 AM: Harvest to Heat

Cooking with America’s Best Chefs, Farmers, and Artisans
By Darryl Estrine and Kelly Kochendorfer
The Taunton Press @tauntonmktg
Pub Date: October 2010

• 12:00 PM: Around My French Table

More Than 300 Recipes from My Home to Yours
By Dorie Greenspan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt @hmhbooks
Pub Date: October 2010

• 1:00 PM: Outside the Ordinary World

By Dori Ostermiller
Harlequin @HarlequinBooks
Pub Date: August 2010

• 1:30 PM: Billie Girl

By Vickie Weaver
Leapfrog Press
Pub Date: September 2010

• 2:00 PM: The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit

A Step-by-Step Legal Guide
By Peri Pakroo, J.D.
NOLO @NoloLibrary
Pub Date: May 2010

• 4:00 PM: Safe From the Sea

By Peter Geye
Unbridled Books @unbridledbooks
Pub Date: September 2010

THURSDAY MAY 27 @ NetGalley booth #3905

• 10:00 AM: Taking Charge of Adult ADHD

By Russell A. Barkley, PhD
Guilford Press @GuilfordPsych
Pub Date: August 2010

• 11:00 AM: Vestments

By John Reimringer
Milkweed Editions @Milkweed_Books
Pub Date: September 2010

• 11:30 AM: Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married

By Gary Chapman
Moody Publishers @moodybooks
Pub Date: September 2010

• 12:00 PM: Simple Secrets

The Harmony Series, Book One
By Nancy Mehl
Barbour Publishing @BarbourBuzz
Pub Date: June 2010

• 2:00 PM: Desserts 4 Today

By Abigail Johnson Dodge
The Taunton Press @tauntonmktg
Pub Date: September 2010

• 2:30 PM: Deadline Man

By Jon Talton
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub Date: May 2010

NetGalley BEA Buzz Schedule (grid)

WEDNESDAY MAY 26 @ NetGalley booth #3905
10:00 AM	The Handbook for Lightning Strike Survivors	Crown Publishing Group	Pub Date: April 2010
10:30 AM	Truly, Madly, Deadly	ECW Press	Pub Date: June 2010
11:00 AM	THE BELLY FAT CURE™ FAST TRACK	Hay House, Inc	Pub Date: December 29, 2010
11:30 AM	Harvest to Heat	The Taunton Press	Pub Date: October 2010
12:00 PM	Around My French Table	Houghton Mifflin Harcourt	Pub Date: October 2010
1:00 PM	Outside the Ordinary World	Harlequin	Pub Date: July 2010
1:30 PM	Billie Girl	Leapfrog Press	Pub Date: September 2010
2:00 PM	The Women’s Small Business Start-Up Kit	NOLO	Pub Date: May 2010
4:00 PM	Safe From the Sea	Unbridled Books	Pub Date: September 2010
THURSDAY MAY 27 @ NetGalley booth #3905
10:00 AM	Taking Charge of Adult ADHD	Guilford Press	Pub Date: August 2010
11:00 AM	Vestments	Milkweed Editions	Pub Date: September 2010
11:30 AM	Things I Wish I’d Known Before We Got Married	Moody Publishers	Pub Date: September 2010
12:00 PM	Simple Secrets	Barbour Publishing	Pub Date: June 2010
2:00 PM	Desserts 4 Today	The Taunton Press	Pub Date: September 2010
2:30 PM	Deadline Man	Poisoned Pen Press	Pub Date: May 2010

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Welcome Hay House Week at NetGalley!

We interrupt this public service blog to bring you an update about its sponsor: NetGalley. As you may have heard through twitter or my e-newsletter (sign up), we’re currently having a special theme week at NetGalley!

Welcome Hay House Week!

We’re so excited to announce that Hay House has joined the list of publishers using NetGalley to provide digital galleys to reviewers and professional readers.

NetGalley members are now able to request a digital review copy of many great Hay House books, emphasizing nonfiction in the areas of Self-Help, New Age, Sociology, Philosophy, Psychology, Health, Business, Finance, Men’s/Women’s Issues, Inspirational Memoirs, and Celebrity Biographies. Subjects include: social issues, current events, ecology, business, food and nutrition, education, the environment, alternative health/medicine, money/finance, nature, recreation, religion, men’s and women’s issues, spiritual growth, and fitness.

Browse current Hay House galleys here. NetGalley members will have the option to download PDF versions of the galleys to their computers, Kindles, Sony Readers, or other devices, and search within the galleys. Plus, excerpts are now live for all Hay House titles — so you can read a preview before you choose to request! While you’re browsing their titles in the catalog, just click the “more info” button and then the excerpt link under “URLs.”

In celebration of the launch week, we’re giving reviewers an added incentive! Hay House is offering a free 2010 Calendar by Hay House founder Louise L. Hay to the first 25 NetGalley members who send their review of any Hay House title.

It’s easy: after requesting and reading a Hay House galley, simply share the review with Hay House in NetGalley (under “Manage My Reviews” just click the “Write” pencil icon; include the entire review and a link to where it’s published).

The first 25 members to send a review will receive this 2010 Calendar:

I CAN DO IT® 2010 Calendar
365 Daily Affirmations
by Louise L. Hay

I hope you’ll check out Hay House at NetGalley today!

As always, don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or feedback.

Happy Reading!

All best,
Lindsey

your friendly Digital Concierge at NetGalley
lindsey[dot]rudnickas[at]netgalley[dot]com

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Crazy About eBooks? MediaBistro’s Jason Boog Has The Perfect E-vent (and blog) For You!

Jason Boog

What’s new in the ebook world? Well, a lot. Ebooks are everywhere and they’re making big news. In an effort to help publishers and readers alike keep track of all that is new in ebook news, MediaBistro recently unveiled the eBOOKNEWSER – an e-centric companion blog to their popular GalleyCat blog, AND this week MediaBistro is launching a conference completely devoted to ebooks -  the eBook Summit.

That’s a lot of e!

Wanting to know more about these E-vents, I cornered Jason Boog, editor of GalleyCat, and managing editor for the eBookNewser, to find out find out what’s behind MediaBistro’s interest in the world of ebooks.

KM: What prompted MediaBistro’s interest in the ebook space?

JB: We’ve been reporting on eBooks all year, and GalleyCat has really grown as we focused on digital issues. Watching eBook readership expand, mediabistro.com wanted to tap into this timely issue and foster conversation about the future–so our events and teaching teams built this amazing conference.

KM:What’s the deal with the eBook Summit?

JB: The summit is a two-day conference about the future of digital publishing–I helped choose speakers and develop some of the content. In my new job, I’ll have a chance to work even more closely with the events and teaching teams for the conference.

The summit will talk about all the digital issues facing publishing–from Google Books, to different e-reading devices, to social networking and publicity to reading demographics to the agent’s role in the future.

Here’s the complete program:
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooksummit/program.asp

Here’s the complete list of speakers and moderators, it’s kind of amazing how many people are coming out:
http://www.mediabistro.com/ebooksummit/speakers.asp

The idea is to make the summit a mediabistro tradition, and continue to interact with the digital community the summit will create. I’m hoping to start holding semi-regular parties where publishing types, writers, and readers can get together and talk about these issues.
Here’s the first party, if everything goes well, we should have more of these in the future:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/ebooks/be_not_efraid_143873.asp

KM: What differentiates the eBook Summit from TOC and Digibookworld? What is the angle is MediaBistro taking with this conference?

JB: Mediabistro’s audience spans the media industry. eBooks are turning the publishing industry into a multimedia business. The eBook Summit brings together people from all facets of media who are interested in electronic publishing to brainstorm how they can work together to produce the next phase of content.

We put the most creative and influential leaders in the field together–from literary journals to Google to publishing executives–and we will let them have a conversation. And, as always, mediabistro.com events feature plenty of quality networking time. For two days attendees can mingle with the eBook leaders and become a part of the eBook conversation.

KM: What has response to the conference been like?

JB: The response has been phenomenal. We’re expecting 300 people, a remarkable number for a first-time conference in the middle of a recession.

KM: What topics will MediaBistro’s eBOOKNEWSER cover?

JB: We’ll put a GalleyCat stamp on eBook news–the same warm tone, focused, and frequent reporting that senior editor Ron Hogan developed over the last four years. We’ll bring all the digital news our traditional publishing audience expects, but we are hoping to broaden the GalleyCat audience as well. We’re looking to reach the sea of underrepresented writers in digital space, from eBook writers to eBook pioneers at small presses. Socially-networked writing sites like Protagonize, Fictionaut, Scribd, and fan fiction hubs are booming–but nobody has covered these fascinating communities. We’ll be there every day.

Check out the eBOOKNEWSER here. They’ve already got a lot of great posts up, including today’s very interesting: “An Agent Weighs In on Random House’s Claim to Backlist eBook Rights.”

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It’s Welcome Harlequin Week at NetGalley!

We interrupt this public service blog to bring you an update about its sponsor: NetGalley. As you may have heard through twitter or my e-newsletter (not signed up?), we’re in the middle of a special theme week at NetGalley!

Welcome Harlequin Week!

We’re so excited to announce that Harlequin Books has joined the list of publishers using NetGalley to provide digital galleys to reviewers and professional readers.

NetGalley members are now able to request a digital review copy of dozens of great Harlequin books, including romance, women’s fiction, paranormal, erotica, YA and non-fiction titles. These galleys can be downloaded as PDFs to your computer, or read on your Kindle or Sony Reader. Browse all Harlequin titles here.

Coincidentally, we also launched our Facebook Page this week – complete with an event for Welcome Harlequin Week, of course!

In preparation for this special week, I asked some of our favorite romance reviewers using NetGalley what they thought about Harlequin coming on board.

Here are some highlights:

Harlequin on NetGalley is a meeting of digital brilliance in one location – it’s like chocolate, seasalt and caramel. Warm, dryer-fresh socks and a book. Flannel jammies and hot cocoa. Perfect merge. Excuse me, I have to go indulge! There is no better audience for digital books and the instant enjoyment of digital reading than romance readers. Women buy more electronics, buy more fiction, and now, with the convenience of ebooks and portable devices, can read more – any time, any place. We are the digital readers that publishers are looking for – and we’re not that hard to find, thanks to NetGalley.

—Sarah of Smart Bitches Trashy Books, @SmartBitches

Harlequin joining NetGalley is exciting news. I think the first romance I read was a Harlequin, probably Harlequin Presents because I remember the white cover and the circle with the hero and heroine pictured in it. Harlequin Presents is still one of my favorite romance lines, but I’m also a fan of their Luna books line (which is for fans of fantasy with romantic elements). They just started a Harlequin Teen line which looks promising. If I see a few of my favorite lines from Harlequin at NetGalley, I will be a happy reviewer. From what I’ve seen Harlequin has been embracing digital technology – they have a reader panel called Tell Harlequin which is all online, all their new titles come in ebook format, and for their 60th anniversary celebration they have harlequincelebrates.com where 16 ebooks are available free to download…Romance is a popular genre, it will be popular in the physical form and in the digital form.

—Janice of janicu’s book blog, @janicu

I was very excited when I learned Harlequin would be offering its galleys digitally through NetGalley.  Harlequin continues to impress me with its whole hearted embrace of digital books and digital media.  Clearly Harlequin is working hard to fulfill its goal of getting a romance in every woman’s hands. With the Harlequin galleys available digitally, it will reduce the negative impact on the environment and increase efficiencies for reviewing teams.  Many review blogs are comprised of individuals located all over the US and often, even international locales.  Digital galleys allow the review blogs to divert their time and attention to actually reading the books instead of focusing on the ministerial aspect of allocation of books. It’s a win all the way around and I laud Harlequin for taking the opportunities that NetGalley is providing.

—Jane Litte of Dear Author, @dearauthor

Good stuff! I hope you’ll join the growing list of readers who are getting an early peek at some great Harlequin titles. And as always, don’t hesitate to email me if you have any questions or feedback.

Happy Reading!

All best,

Lindsey (your friendly Digital Concierge at NetGalley)

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NetGalley loves librarians!

UPDATE: I’m pleased to announce that Tracey Simon of Floral Park Library is the winner of our “refer-a-friend contest”! Congrats to her, and thanks to all the librarians who participated. I hope you’ll continue to enjoy NetGalley and keep spreading the word!

A special note to all the wonderful librarians using NetGalley…This week we’re celebrating our love of librarians with a special giveaway!

REFER-A-FRIEND CONTEST, librarian-style!

The contest is easy, the rewards delicious. Check your email inbox for an email from me about this contest. Just forward that email to a librarian friend and tell them why you think they should join NetGalley. Make sure to CC me when you email your friend, so that I can tell if your friend registers for NetGalley. If they do, then you’ll be entered into our giveaway drawing, for a chance to win the books featured in our Food & Cooking Titles newsletter.

WIN THIS YUMMY BUNDLE OF BOOKS:

• Mother’s Best: Comfort Food that Takes You Home Again by Lisa Schroeder and Danielle Centoni. Read more
• How to Roast a Lamb: New Greek Classic Cooking by Michael Psilakis. Read more
• Absolutely Chocolate: Irresistible Excuses to Indulge by Editors of Fine Cooking Magazine. Read more
• Cake Keeper Cakes: 100 Simple Recipes for Extraordinary Bundt Cakes, Pound Cakes, Snacking Cakes, and Other Good-to-the-last-Crumb Treats by Lauren Chattman. Read more
• DamGoodSweet: Desserts to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth, New Orleans Style by David Guas and Raquel Pelzel. Read more

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