Dear Colleagues, I would like to add my "two-cents" to last week's discussion of book reviews in connection with the book A Little Piece of Ground" . As a book reviewer for Library Journal (for both Judaica and health science books) for many years, (under the by-line Carol Glatt) I can definitively say that any book review, however negative, generates more interest in a book than no review at all. Parenthetically, this is true for movie reviews as well--negative reviews oftentimes bring audiences flocking to the theaters.
If Amazon--a commercial enterprise-- doesn't list the book, it means that someone there has decided that few sales can be expected for it. In this case, I believe that it behooves us to also ignore the book also --certainly for the time being. If the major review organs--PW, Kirkus Reviews, School Library Journal, etc do publish positive reviews, then is the time to take action. In my opinion, it is extremely counter-productive to initiative publicity for a book that is still (and may continue to remain) relatively unknown. Rivkah Frank Jerusalem =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
