New Books for Xmas '09

November 16, 2006 10:42 PM

What are some good sites for learning about future book releases?

I am looking for something from the publishing side of the industry rather than the selling side. Maybe even a known works in progress type reference.

posted by holdkris99 to Education (4 answers total)

Books In Print's Forthcoming Books section is what you want, but you'd probably have to get access to it via a local library (my county library has BIP accessible online from home with a valid library card).

There's free online access to Library Journal's Prepub Alert.
posted by candyland at 6:09 AM on November 17, 2006

I am a radio producer who gets tons and tons of books from publishers (we use a lot of them each year thanks to interviews and discussions). I try to get on as many mailing lists as I can to get 'upcoming...' catalogs, but another resource that is out every week is "Publisher's Weekly". Progress type is very hard, because the last thing most publishers want to deal with is gossip about the progress of a book. That is going to be much more difficult to get and I doubt if there is a single publisher out there that would provide that information.
posted by parmanparman at 6:11 AM on November 17, 2006

Maybe keep up with GalleyCat or this Barnes & Noble list.
posted by mattbucher at 7:34 AM on November 17, 2006

For what you're describing, Publisher's Weekly would be up there.
posted by drezdn at 10:17 AM on November 17, 2006