Advance Access
Get your galleys into the hands of America's best booksellers.
 
Each month, we email over 1,000 independent booksellers with news of galleys, reading copies or finished books that publishers are offering for review. After receiving a free review copy from you, stores will read and decide whether to carry the title. We make no promises, but the Advance Access program has proved to be a very effective way to get the word out about titles. Stores will email you directly, and generally, you can expect requests from 25-50 booksellers.

All book descriptions must be sent to Pete Reynolds at peter@bookweb.org with title, author, publisher, ISBN, subject category, publication date, the number of free copies you have to offer, a maximum three-sentence description, and an email address to which the booksellers can write to directly request a copy.

An example follows:

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TITLE XYZ by David Smith, (Publisher, ISBN: 0-000-00000-0, $23.95, hardcover, September 2010, Mystery/Thriller). A three-sentence description of the title here. No more than 70 words, please. Number of galleys available.
mailto:yournamehere@emailaddress.com
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(Please do NOT include website information or attach press releases or jacket images.) Due to high volume, it may take us 2-3 weeks from your first writing until word of your book offer gets emailed to the stores.

IMPORTANT: Due to the volume of offers and the staff time it takes to process and aggregate them, we must charge $150 per title for this program. Please send your check for $150 per title offered, payable to American Booksellers Association, to ABA, 200 White Plains Rd., Tarrytown, NY 10591 ATTN: Ana Gonzalez. If you prefer to pay by credit card, please call Ana at 914-591-2665 x 6622 or email her at ana@bookweb.org to make those arrangements.

PLEASE NOTE: This fee is waived if you are a Publisher Partner directly or if you are one of the hundreds of smaller presses working with Brigham Distributing, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution, Diamond Book Distributors, Greenleaf Book Group, Independent Publishers Group (IPG), Ingram Publisher Services (IPS), International Publishers Marketing (IPM), Midpoint Trade Books, National Book Network, Perseus Distribution, Publishers Group West (PGW), or SCB Distributors. If you are not distributed by any of the above but are a member of The Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA; formerly PMA), Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) or the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP), you can participate at the reduced rate of $75 per title. Contact Mark Nichols to learn more about becoming a Publisher Partner.

SPECIAL FOR PUBLISHER PARTNERS! Publisher-exclusive Advance Access emails are available for Publisher Partners only. These offerings must contain a minimum of five and a maximum of twenty titles. The cost is $150, and the timing of the email will be determined between IndieBound and the Publisher Partner. Jacket images may be included. Please contact Peter Reynolds, peter@bookweb.org, 914-591-2665, x 6635 for details.