The Book Club Portion of AALBC.com is Growing

As part of the website upgrade, I'm greatly expanding the information on Book Clubs.  In fact, I would like AALBC.com to be thought of as the "Book Club of Book Clubs" or maybe the "Book Club for Book Clubs."  I'll sort the tag line out later, the most important thing is what is being added to the web.

• I have about 650 book clubs on AALBC.com.  You can find a book club near you here: http://aalbc.org/bookclubs/
• I plan to add the reading lists of as many book clubs as possible.  I just added Go On Girl! Book Club's reading list: http://aalbc.it/goongirl2016  Also, all commissions earned from sales of books on the Go On Girl! Book Club's reading list will be donated to charity. 
• Book Club information will be aggregated to provide value all readers.  In fact, if you go to a book page (every book, on the new website, has its own page), it will tell you how many Book Club's have selected the book for their reading list.  Check out the page for Barbara Ransby's book, Eslanda: The Large and Unconventional Life of Mrs. Paul Robeson.

There is a lot of potential here.  No one is adequately reporting on, or addressing the needs of Book Clubs.  Besides libraries, the few remaining book sellers, no other entity advocates for Black authors and books better than Book Clubs.  Book Clubs help drive the demand for quality literature that tells our stories.  The culture needs their support.

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*Note: the AALBC.com development site is http://aalbc.org. When the site is launched next year, AALBC.org will become the new AALBC.com.