TheBookStandard.com Website Design Review

ARTICLE SNIPPET - In this website design review, Peter A. Schaible runs TheBookStandard.com through the 14 website design guidelines and determines that for a relatively new start-up membership website, they're doing very well.

TheBookStandard.com describes itself as "the all-inclusive online destination for publishers, retailers, librarians, agents, authors, distributors, studio executives, screenwriters, publicists, book groups and more!" It's an accurate description. VNU Business Media, publisher of The Hollywood Reporter, Billboard, Computing, and other trade titles, launched TheBookStandard.com, its first solely online publication, in January of 2005. Armed with these VNU resources, TheBookStandard.com takes direct aim at a venerable established brand: Publishers Weekly, which is more than 130 years old.

TheBookStandard.com brings together in one online subscription website every aspect of the book publishing industry: Nielsen BookScan-powered data, charts, and analysis; news and investigative reporting; industry resources, tools, and commentary—plus reviews powered by Kirkus. TheBookStandard.com succeeds on many levels as measured by the Mequoda Website Scorecard™. When measured against the 14 Mequoda website design best practices, TheBookStandard.com scores a solid "B."

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