If you create verbally children’s books you want to look into Lookybook.
Lookybook allows you to see fully illustrated children’s books in their entirety – from cover to cover. The pages turn as smoothly as if you were holding the book in your hand allowing customers to review any book on the place before making a buying decision. They can also comment on or leave a review on any of the books they browse through.
If you are a self-published author or illustrator. Lookybook has something called Lookytools that enable you to back up your books online through your own blog or website. This is an exciting innovation for people involved in the Children’s Book industry folks and it opens whole new avenues of opportunity.
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Every author and illustrator knows the drill: a picture book comes out and if you are lucky it gets face-out placement on the bookstore shelves for the first few months then it gets shelved spine out if at all and that is the end of the life of your book as we know it.
Beginning today a California-based startup company unveils Lookybook an interactive book community Web site that enables people to look for through hundreds of picture books and post comments about them before deciding whether to purchase the book on Amazon. (They are also looking into working with independent bookstores through Book Sense.)
Lookybook is the brainchild of Craig Frazier an author and illustrator of picture books who became frustrated by the display cycle. Frazier wanted to furnish more picture books a better come about of finding readers and hit upon the idea of creating a Web site that could help them be in print.
“It occurred to me as I watched these books that the marketing and sales opportunities dwindled over measure through no accuse of the publisher,” Frazier 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.”
Lookybook is making the program free to publishers for the first year because as the founders adjudge they are not sure how the site will affect book sales.
About a year ago. Frazier met Craig Virden a children’s publishing veteran and former head of Random House Children’s Books. The two teamed up with designer Ron Chan who created the site’s proprietary software that animates entire picture books and allows them to be browsed online. Frazier and the company are based in Mill Valley. Calif. so it fell to East Coaster Virden to spread the word about Lookybook to publishers.
account Boedecker publishing director of children’s books at enter admitted he was skeptical at first. “It’s showing the whole book online; it’s more than just a peek inside,” he told PW. Now Boedecker said he sees Lookybook as a means for publicity and a great way to promote backlist titles online which Boedecker believes most picture book publishers have been trying to do.
“We’re all sort of standing and looking out wondering who’s going to go first,” Boedecker said. He thinks that Lookybook with its peer-to-peer analyse ability and user-created bookshelves will serve as a conceive of book separate for site visitors.
At Holiday accommodate v-p of marketing Terry Borzumato-Greenberg said Lookybook offers a way to “showcase books that has not existed before.” Librarians educators parents and grandparents can check out a book for themselves and then read what others have said about it before deciding to buy the book she said.
Since browsing the full titles online can’t compare to the cozy feeling of curling up with a physical book. Borzumato-Greenberg does not evaluate that Lookybook ordain steal potential picture book sales. And because there was no rush to be involved for the first year she said Holiday House saw “no downside.”
“It’s a new frontier,” said Frazier. “We may be able to bring a book send that hasn’t been seen in years. The goal of this is to act a broadened level playing field for picture books.”
“There’s been an interesting amount of enthusiasm,” Virden added. “At least we are taking a shot at something new.” He hopes that once publishers realize Lookybook can convey the pictorial essence of a picture book without duplicating the physical experience of reading one they will appreciate the promotional and marketing opportunities the site offers. “You can’t buy what you can’t see,” he said.
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