By Michele, Children's LibrarianPicture books are all about, you guessed it, the pictures! Sometimes when I want to purchase a book, I haven't even seen the cover. If it got a great review, I will sometimes chance it and buy it without seeing it first. More than a few times I have been surprised by what comes in on my order. That can now all change.
Beginning today, a California-based startup company unveils Lookybook, an interactive book community Web site that enables people to browse through hundreds of picture books and post comments about them before deciding whether to purchase the book on Amazon. Craig Frazier, the brain power behind Lookybook, and author and illustrator of picture books said, “There was no apparent place on the Internet where you could have the experience of looking at a picture book as in the bookstore.” The Lookybook site opens to the book trade today and is expected to go live for consumers on November 29, with about 300 books provided by charter publishers that include Chronicle, Penguin, Roaring Brook and Holiday House.
http://www.lookybook.com/
This will be a great tool for parents who purchase christmas gifts online. Register at the site, it is free and you can browse through the books, turning pages just like you had the book in your hand. This will be a valuable tool for me as I purchase books. If you find one that you really like add you comments here and I will consider purchasing it.
Beginning today, a California-based startup company unveils Lookybook, an interactive book community Web site that enables people to browse through hundreds of picture books and post comments about them before deciding whether to purchase the book on Amazon. Craig Frazier, the brain power behind Lookybook, and author and illustrator of picture books said, “There was no apparent place on the Internet where you could have the experience of looking at a picture book as in the bookstore.” The Lookybook site opens to the book trade today and is expected to go live for consumers on November 29, with about 300 books provided by charter publishers that include Chronicle, Penguin, Roaring Brook and Holiday House.
http://www.lookybook.com/
This will be a great tool for parents who purchase christmas gifts online. Register at the site, it is free and you can browse through the books, turning pages just like you had the book in your hand. This will be a valuable tool for me as I purchase books. If you find one that you really like add you comments here and I will consider purchasing it.
1 comment:
as one of the founders of Lookybook,i would like to personally welcome the participation of agents, authors, consumers, illustrators, librarians, publishers and anyone else who loves children's picture books to come visit our site and help us collectively re-energize this segment of the book industry.
come join us - come Lookybook!!
regards,
wendell laidley
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