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Tuesday, 10th August 2010

Now Available: A New Service and a New Display Feature from LibraryThing: Introducing LibraryThing for Publishers & New Option to Toggle "Virtual Bookshelves" On/Off

Always something new from the LibraryThing team.

Here are two service announced on the LibraryThing Blog by Tim Spalding in the past few hours.

1) LibraryThing for Publishers

From the Blog Post:

LibraryThing for Publishers is free and open to any legitimate publisher. It’s dead-simple to upload your titles.

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What You Get. LibraryThing for Publishers gives publishers three key things:

+ A box on the work page of all their titles.
+ Publisher pages.
+ Hundreds of links from LibraryThing. LibraryThing has a high PageRank [Explained at the Conclusion of the Post]

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We’ve launched with five publishers, covering eight imprints. We thank them for their willingness to try something new! Here's an example of a publishers page. Those new bookshelves look really cool.

The post goes on to mention several more "nifty" features publisher members receive.

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2) A Shelves Toggle in LibraryThing

I’ve [Tim Spalding] released a new “widget” or “toggle,” that showcases a list of book in either list or “shelf” mode. (It also has a “covers” mode, like a shelf without the shelf.)

The goal is to add some graphic appeal, but keep things “light” and integrated with the page. We didn’t want the box-shaped shelves employed by some other websites, and in LibraryThing for Libraries. The feature is also optional. It’s a toggle. (See below.)

Right now, I’ve put it only one place: tag pages. Once changes have settled down, I’ll extend it to other places you now see only a list of works–authors, series, awards, subjects, tagmashes, etc.

You can change pages, and from “shelf” to “titles” or “covers” by mousing over the book area to reveal a gray region on the right. (IE users will find the gray area always shown.) Whatever you pick for shelves/titles/covers will stick for subsequent views of the element on that page type. So if you don’t like this feature, you only have to see it once.

Examples:

Graphic Novel

French Art

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Source: LibraryThing Blog

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