Bookmovement.com was founded in 2001 to give book clubs a way to recommend books to each other on a national level.
Each part of the Bookmovement.com web site is designed to meet this goal:
* The Preview & Review program introduces new titles to our members by giving free copies of books to 10-15 members (or one book club) to read and review for their peers.
* Our Essential Book Club Planner tracks what book clubs are reading, in addition to giving our member book clubs a way to share and distribute book information to their members. Clubs create their own private, customized web page on which they can post book selections and send notices to members. The Planner creates a reading guide for their selection, and emails the guide, meeting details, Google map of meeting location, Amazon price with buy link and RSVP request to their members. The Planner also sends a follow-up email to club members asking them to evaluate their book selection for their peers.
* The 800+ BookMovement-created reading guides found in The List are members book selections as well as the selection of media book clubs; The information included in these guides gives clubs all the information they told us they needed: Amazon price with buy link, publisher-provided discussion questions, email link to the author, and web links to author and publisher websites.
* Our Book Club Bestseller List, updated monthly and compiled from Book Club Planner and site data, shows our members what books clubs are reading now.
Data from the Preview & Review program and the Essential Book Club Planner continue to shape the site and its content.
Founder and President Pauline Hubert has worked in the publishing industry for 10 years at Artisan and then the literary and new media departments of the William Morris Agency.
How BookClubbing Works
Working with Bookmovement.com, BookClubbing will bring your books to more than 11,000 registered bookclubs.
BookClubbing books will be the only books promoted in the newsletter which will go out once or twice a month - no more than five books per newsletter. Each book will have a contest attached - one book club can win books for all of its members. (Typically 10-12 members.)
This newsletter goes to representatives of more than individual 11,000 book clubs - representing a total of 110,000 plus book club members.
At the Bookmovement.com website there will be a reading group guide link, an excerpt link, links to the author 's web site, publisher book info, blurbs, book description, and author's availability to speak or visit the book clubs.
After the home page promo for the month, the book will be archived on giveaway archive page, reading guide database & book club bestseller list (if in top 100 - which it will be the month it's promoted.)
Email this author button will be featured on reading guide permanently, so authors can be contacted after promo period ends.
There are three pricing options for BookClubbing
$985 - will go out with a shelf-awareness buzz. So it will go to 3000 booksellers, 3000 librarians and now 11,000 book clubs.
$750 - for Bookmovement.com alone.
$1550 for the AuthorBuzz basic package plus BookClubbing - so you'll get a variety of different notes going to 350,000 general readers, 3000 booksellers, 10,000 librarians, 7000 registered bookclubs and thousands more via various pickups.
Plus you can buy "Reading Group Guide Of the Week" which a weeklong banner is on the site itself and is $450.