Product Review Policies

October 8, 2005 by wfzimmerman | No comments

Product Review Policies

1. Please send a copy of your current catalog to the following address:

W. Frederick Zimmerman
Editor & Publisher
wfzimmerman.com
2006 Medford Ste C127
Ann Arbor, MI 48104

and make sure that I am on the mailing lists that you use to announce forthcoming products.

2. I am happy to receive advance or review copies of noteworthy new books, music, magazines, DVDs, hardware, and software. Indeed, as a general rule, I request that you automatically send me advance or review copies of all products that will receive significant promotional exposure or nationalnews coverage. Since my site has a high Google PageRank (5/10), keyword searches on items reviewed usually show up very high in Google search results. It is great if I have a copy of a title on hand the moment that it becomes newsworthy.

3. Please drop me a note with an e-mail address that I can use to request additional information or to notify you of the release of reviews of your products.

4. I cannot guarantee that any particular product received will be reviewed. However, if I request it, there is usually a good likelihood that I need it, appreciate it, and will (eventually) review it.

5. My first commitment is to my readers.

6. I honor embargo dates for release of reviews. However, I do encourage publishers to provide early access to forthcoming products and, all other things being equal, I would prefer to release reviews shortly before the products are in the stores. I believe this will generally be mutually advantageous because the Internet is an excellent place to generate prerelease word-of-mouth “buzz.”

7. This site’s progenitor, The Internet Book Information Center, went live on March 30, 1994, when there were fewer than 100 web sites on the Internet. Until early 1999, serverspace was provided by Metalab at the University of North Carolina which (under its former name of Sunsite) was a pioneer in public Web hosting.

8. IBIC’s Commonplace Book was chosen as an Infi.Net Cool Site of the Day, and I-Way magazine picked IBIC as one of the top 25 Web sites in Arts and Entertainment (number 2 among book-related sites). Major Internet switchboards such as the WWW Virtual Library (maintained by the founders of the Web at the MIT/CERN W3 Consortium), the America Online/GNN Whole Internet Catalog, and the University of Michigan Clearinghouse of Subject-Oriented Internet Resources all have pointed to IBIC as their primary guide to literature and book-related resources on the Net. According to Google, more than 1000 sitesworldwide link to wfzimmerman.com.

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