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Readers tell us about your favorite and not-so-favorite books. Authors and Publishers share information about your books. This forum is open to everyone interested in discussing anything related to books by, or about, Black people.

This board's purpose is to facilitate the exchange of opinions, ideas, facts, and information as it relates to Black people. This forum is also known as “Cyniques’ Corner,” named for our most important contributor.

Bloggers working together to help each other increase readership, traffic, revenue, or any measure by which we define success. See Huria Search: https://aalbc.com/huria/

You are encouraged to express your opinions, post poems, or any information related to poetry.  The Poetree, forum was named by the forum's first moderator,  Poetess Sister Shiree Sarana .

Post your publishing industry related press releases here. We are happy to read new book notifications, author tour, and event announcements. We use information shared here in our monthly eNewsletter and elsewhere on the AALBC.com.

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Information Regarding the "legacy" Discussion Forums (2002 to 2010)

Things we can do to better support and patronize indie authors and booksellers

Images and other ways you can help promote the #readingblack movement.  You are encourage to create and share ideas of your own.

Amazon poses a threat to independent booksellers and they are not going away anytime soon.  As Amazon continue to gain near monopolistic power we must devise ways to continue to thrive.  Here we share articles to help understand what Amazon is doing and how we can adapt.

Patronizing these booksellers help support the authors you enjoy, or have yet to discover, and the publishers who produce their work.

Please share articles related to bookselling or #readingblack.

This is where we discuss each book on our reading list each month. 

Our online book club launched shortly after the website was started in 1998 (read a brief history). Participation is easy and there is no commitment feel free to join us anytime. Book discussions are held in our book club’s forum (learn more).

A forum for discussing writing.