Barnesandnoble.com Signs Deal for The Reader's Catalog

Posted on September 10, 1998

Barnesandnoble.com announced today that it has acquired exclusive rights to The Reader's Catalog. A sister publication of The New York Review of Books, The Reader's Catalog is a thematically organized guide to over 40,000 books in print and includes contributions from many of America's literary, academic, and cultural figures. It can be found online on barnesandnoble.com. The Reader's Catalog is edited by the poet and essayist Geoffrey O'Brien.

"Our goal is to provide readers with the best database about books and authors anywhere online," says Steve Riggio, vice chairman of Barnes & Noble Inc. "Adding The Reader's Catalog to our Web site effectively gives us an editorial board of advisors that is second to none. It's also one of the most stimulating and useful ways to explore the world of books. By integrating the content completely throughout our title database, users will have convenient access to informative commentary and lists of the best books in 320 subject categories."

In addition to being integrated into the barnesandnoble.com database, the 2000-page Reader's Catalog will also be available at barnesandnoble.com as a stand-alone electronic version that can be browsed or searched by title, author, subject, or keyword. New introductions, annotations, and extended reviews will be continually incorporated into barnesandnoble.com, as the editors of The Reader's Catalog add updates.