Newsletters of Interest-1: "From NextReads and Boston Public Library"

The Boston Public Library and NextReads jointly bring out many email newsletters of interest regularly on monthly/bimonthly basis. For example, if you take the genre, "Biography and Memoir", the January 2009 issue of this monthly email newsletter contains information on 11 interesting books with photos of cover page, a brief write-up on each book and other relevant details like Publisher, Publication date, ISBN number. In some cases, 'Table of Contents' and/or 'First Chapter' are also available.

Like this, they have newsletters on the following topics:

Armchair Travel
Biography and Memoir
Business and Personal Finance
Fiction A to Z
Historical Fiction
Kids' Books
Mystery
Popular Culture
Romance
Science Fiction
Thrillers and Suspense

Depending on your interest you can choose the relevant newsletter and become a subscriber. It is absolutely free.

http://www.bpl.org/

All the best!