BookTour.com is Live:

Today, after six weeks of beta testing, BookTour.com has gone live. Our CTO Adam Goldstein did a kick-tuchas job coding the sucka and it hums like a top.

If you haven’t visited yet, BookTour.com is a free online service where authors on tour can search for venues to set up speaking engagements and book lovers can see when their favorite writers are coming to their home town and have the information delivered by email, rss or iCalendar. (full description).

Our CEO is Chris Anderson who posted this morning on his blog about the project. I’m the Chief Evangelist and Community Director which means education and outreach are my domain.

I’ll be spending much of the rest of the summer getting authors, book stores, libraries and interested parties into our database.

You can sign up for own free BookTour.com account and start tracking your favorite authors as they come through town. Takes about 3 minutes and the rewards, he boasts, are priceless.

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