tracy grand ceo, jacketflap.com children’s and young adult literature in a web 2.0 world october...

Tracy GrandCEO, JacketFlap.com

Children’s and Young Adult Literature in a Web 2.0 World

October 26, 2010

Is Amazing!but… information is spread across many places (e.g. Author websites, Amazon, Youtube, Twitter, Facebook, Publisher websites, Booktour, Flickr, Blogs, etc.)

Search for an author on Google and you find a gazillion websites

Finding information takes too long JacketFlap wants to make it easy JacketFlap’s goal is to centralize everything having

to do with children’s literature Every book, author & publisher has a page on

JacketFlap Think of JacketFlap as the Google of children’s

literature Aggregates content Full of links to the sources

Web 2.0

Focused on Books for Children and Young Adults

Searchable database of > 1,000,000 Books

Biographies on > 200,000 Authors, Illustrators and other Creators

Catalogues of > 20,000 Book Publishers

2,000,000 Book Reviews > 2,000 Children’s Book Blogs Book Trailers, Author / Illustrator

Tour Dates, and Contact information

Social Networking Community

Resources

Easily browse & search books by: Reading level Title Author, Illustrator, other

creators Subject

See aggregated reviews Read First Chapter Free

Books

Book Search: ExampleBooks about Baseball, Ages 4 -8

Book Search: Options

Book DetailDescription, Combined Rating, Links,

Publisher

Book DetailBlog Posts, Free First Chapter, Author Info

Book DetailSubjects, Awards, Professional Reviews,

Videos

Aggregated Reviews: Amazon

Barnes & Noble

Goodreads

Book Videos

Book Video Page

Easily browse & search people Find local authors,

illustrators By Geography

Search by Titles See authors on tour in your

area

People

Published PeopleSearch for People Near Fontana, CA

JacketFlap Profile PageBiography, Links, Tweets, Social Networks,

Email

JacketFlap Profile PageBlog, Picture Gallery

JacketFlap Profile PagePublished Works, Events, Friends

JacketFlap Profile PageVideos, Profile Comments

JacketFlap CommunityPeople Online

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are needed to see this picture.

JacketFlap CommunitySearch for Librarians Near Fontana, CA

Books by Members> 6,000 Authors, 176 books published in last

30 days

Books by MembersFind Books by Local Authors

JacketFlap Blog Reader42,863 Posts in Librarian Blogs Alone!

That’s a quick peek at JacketFlap

Thank you!

I’d love your feedback!

Tracy Grandtgrand@jacketflap.com

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