Tools for Book Professionals

Whether you're a bookseller, sales rep, librarian, reviewer, or publisher, you have same same goal: to connect readers with books.  Above the Treeline offers tools that help.  See our Product Overview page for more information...

What's New at Above the Treeline?

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.