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July 12th, 2010

Looking for a reason to justify an iPad purchase? Look no further! We've been hearing great feedback about how Edelweiss has been working for folks on the iPad. You can get to Edelweiss on the iPad using the built-in Safari web browser-- and easily add an icon to your home page that will bring you right to Edelweiss. Read more

June 11th, 2010

If you haven't had a chance to check out GeoSearch (press release), our new feature that allows you to search for titles and authors based on geographical relevance, we strongly recommend it.  You must be a registered Edelweiss user (free! easy! here!) and  go to the "GeoSearch" tab.  For a screenshot primer, click here.

Books@BEA, the first official on-line product catalog for BookExpo will be turned off today.  We had 335 exhibitors participate, adding over 10,000 forthcoming titles featured at the show.  The catalog had about 3,000 visitors.  We're pleased with the response and are committed to working with Reed and the BookExpo team to enhance and extend the reach of the catalog for next year's show.

May 11th, 2010

Along with many others, we're getting ready for the upcoming BookExpo America in New York City that takes place over May 25 - 27.  If you're going to be there, come by and say "hi" - we'll be in booth #4417.  If you haven't had a chance to see a demonstration of Edelweiss, BookExpo is a great time for it.  John Rubin, our CEO, will be conducting two sessions, at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday and Thursday.  In addition, we'll have three monitors available in our booth and will be giving ongoing demonstrations to people who drop by.

Also, be sure to check out Books@BEA, the official on-line product catalog of BookExpo America 2010 - we partnered with Reed Exhibitions to create this exciting new on-line hub for attendees and interested professionals everywhere to more easily browse and view the titles being featured at the show.  Books@BEA is at http://www.booksatbea.com/ and will be live starting Friday, May 14th.

April was a busy month for us: Macmillan, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Perseus Book Group, and Nolo all signed up for Edelweiss (press releases) and we obviously couldn't be more pleased.  We've also continued to add new features and enhancements such as Market View and the remodeled Title Detail Page.

March 9th, 2010

Today we announced a cooperative venture with BookExpo America (BEA) to provide the official on-line digital product catalog for this year's show in New York City.  We are crazy excited about this project and you can expect to see more information soon.  To see the press release, check here.  The excellent industry blog Personanondata also published an article about Edelweiss this morning.  If you are a BookExpo exhibitor interested in participating in Books@BEA, sign up for our email list.

In addition, today we rolled out a new remodeled List View within Edelweiss that we're really pleased with and that offers both an enhanced look and increased performance.  See this week's Edelweiss email update for more information on what changed.

New features you can expect to see in Edelweiss over the next couple of months include:

  • Subject/Format Mapping: Retailers will appreciate the ability to map to POS departments using a combination of bisac subject category and bisac format code.  This has come up repeatedly, primarily connected to Children's categories.  We listened!
  • Google Map Authors and Titles: A different kind of "mapping" entirely!  Soon we'll introduce the ability to search Edelweiss based on geographic criteria in conjunction with the currently available filter criteria.  Set an address and a radius to search and results will be mapped on Google maps based on available author bio info (residence, birthplace, universities attended or affiliated) and title setting or relevance.
  • Galley Requests (with digital galleys): Edelweiss will soon provide the ability for publishers to offer galleys to readers and retailers using a "request" feature.  Also, as we announced in January, we're partnering with NetGalley to allow publishers to offer digital galleys as well.
  • Custom Market Views: As the number of users and publishers have grown, we've seen the need to provide different views of the system.  Soon retailers and other catalog readers will be able to choose between a number of different market views such as General Trade, Christian Trade, Academic, and others.  Each view will provide a custom set of publishers, catalogs, and titles specifically for that market.

January 26th, 2010

With the holiday season over and done, our users were clearly ready to get to work on Edelweiss catalogs.  We have had our three highest weeks of use back to back in the first three weeks of 2010.  See the chart below to see the trend over 2009 and into 2010.

In addition, so far in 2010 we've been happy to announce a couple of new publishers (Moody, Hyperion) and a great partnership with the AAUP.  We have retailers, librarians, reviewers, and other book professionals in all 50 states using Edelweiss and our user base continues to grow, edging up to 1,000.  See the map below for a sense of how our users are distributed across the country.

As always, we'll keep working in 2010 to provide the best possible tools to help connect readers and books as efficiently and effectively as possible.  Feel free to reach out to us if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions.

December 16th, 2009

We're thrilled to announce a partnership with Firebrand Technologies to integrate functionality from NetGalley, Firebrand's industry-leading digital galley service, into our own Edelweiss digital catalogs!  Talk about a win-win-win!  See the press release for more details or check out the blog posting on Follow the Reader.

(Also, if you get a chance, check out our Top 10 Tweeted Hardcover Titles of 2009 from Edelweiss.)

December 7th, 2009

We've reached a couple of milestones with Edelweiss, our on-line interactive catalog service.  It was one year ago that we started beta-testing the first version of Edelweiss and about six months ago that we officially launched the product at BookExpo in New York City.

Since then, we've seen a lot of growth in the user base and in the publisher base.  Recently, Edelweiss has been featured in a couple of articles: Publishers Weekly's December 7 article "Edelweiss Continues to Blossom" and the Publishing Perspectives November piece on why B2B is the real revolution in e-books: "Catalogs, Galleys...Is Something Lost if Publishers Go all 'E' for B2B?"

We're also proud to announce that Fordham University Press and New York University Press have joined Edelweiss and plan to publish their product catalogs soon.

Finally, next week (week of December 10th) we'll be releasing our upgrade to Edelweiss that includes a number of improvements to ease of use and general navigation of the site.  Check back for more info or sign up for our newsletter to keep up with the latest info on Edelweiss.