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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
I added a link last week. Why doesn't it show up on the Recently Added list?
If the title was already in the Jukebox database, the link is added to the exisiting entry. Index the title and it should show up within a week or so of submission.
How come there are titles on the Recently Added list that aren't on the Add Your Link List?
We obtain titles a couple of different ways. Many contribute links to the Jukebox, and we encourage this practice. We actively seek publicly available audiobook reviews on the web. We also have several large bloggers who encourage us to directly pull and index reviews from their sites.
I added a link two weeks ago. Why wasn't it indexed?
There are three different possibilities as to why it wasn't indexed. The first reason is that we may not have had time to index it yet. Also, it may have fallen through the cracks, an oversight on our part. Finally, the review may not have met our basic standards for inclusion. We prefer reviews of 200 words of more. We prefer reviews that discuss the plot, the narration, and the production. We do not believe the so-called mini-reviews that abound on the web are meaningful to users of the Jukebox.
We prefer standalone reviews for indexing (instead of entries with multiple reviews). We do not index LibriVox, Podiobooks, or self-published works. All may be fine works, but that is not within the scope of Audiobook Jukebox.
Are there any actual reviews on this site?
No, as Audiobook Jukebox is an indexing service of audiobook reviews. We collect and index links to reviews on the web. Anyone reading a review linked in our index is directed to the blog where the review is posted.
Do you ever tell reviewers to write "good" reviews?
We have never and will never ask any blogger for a "good" review in any context. They own their copyrights and we only link to their reviews. The guidelines for our reviewer programs deal with form only, not the substance of reviews.
How it this website funded? Do you accept advertising?
So far, the Audiobook Jukebox is entirely self-funded by the owners. At some point in the future, we plan to accept advertising. When we do, it will be quite evident and clearly disclosed.
Who owns the Audiobook Jukebox? Is it owned by a publisher? The Audiobook Jukebox is owned by two individuals who are not affiliated with anyone in the publishing industry. See the About tab for more information.
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Why did you move and change the site from the original version that was in Blogger?
Those who have used this site during the past year may wonder why we moved and why things don't look exactly the same. The main differences are the removal of the author, title, and narrator indexes and moving Mister Linky to the sidebar under "Add Your Links." The indexes were helpful, especially when the site was smaller, but as we grew, the index pages on Blogger became so large that they began crashing -- all the time. Because we could only add a limited number of pages to the Blogger site, we knew we had to move. What we didn't know was that the indexing would not import to the new platform. At that point, we had to ask some tough questions.
First, is there another way for site users to access the information in each review post? By using a good search engine, along with tags and categories, we felt the answer was yes. Do we have the time to manually index each title at least 3 times (more with multiple authors/narrators) with a growing database that should double in size in the next 6 months? Looking at our schedules, which include full time jobs and other responsibilities, we had to be realistic and admit our limitations.
Is it worth the time and effort to cut and paste and reformat all of the previous indexing if we do not plan to continue manual indexing? For us, the answer was no. And finally, what do other sites do? A quick scan showed that by far and away, sites indexing thousands of titles almost exclusively use search engines. I liked the individualized indexing and at some point, would like to try and bring back the narrator index, which I particularly enjoyed, especially as this is an audiobook site.
We decided to move the Mister Linky widget (which collects review links from contributors) to the sidebar to give more attention to the many great reviews highlighted on the site. And because the monthly contributions are not as visible with this arrangement, we created a listing of the most recent 200 review links posted (for titles not already in the Jukebox) to make it easy to keep up with new additions to the site.
We appreciate the many contributions made by bloggers to add their review links and find new titles to hear. We realize some may not care for these changes, but we hope audiobook fans will continue to make this one of their regular stops on the Web. We're very excited about audiobooks, about this site, and about the opportunity to serve the audiobook community.