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Watch lists for books and folders for completed previews – with VLB-TIX, it’s easy to navigate the flood of new titles, grouping them by your own interests and topics of choice. In an era of digital nomads, anyone can access these customised overviews and view all the relevant information regardless of location.

VLB-TIX offers premium publishers the option of including digital review copies directly in their previews. The review copies can then be requested or downloaded immediately when the previews are being perused. Moreover, the start page always contains an updated selection of available review copies.

You can find the appropriate contact person to answer your questions or otherwise assist you, even while you are viewing a publisher’s new releases, previews or company profile. That makes communicating easy and straightforward.

Create your own individualised searches based on your specific interests and needs. Just specify in your search criteria your preferred publishers, topics, titles or authors, among many other options, and then save the search to avoid duplicate effort later. That allows you to get a quick overview of all your new titles.

Watch lists allow you to assign the titles you find to different categories, making it easy to locate them again later. For example, you can save titles by season, topic, level of importance, publication date or author.

You can check multiple entries under »Publishers«, thereby identifying them as »My Publishers« and making it possible to use them later to filter previews. The result: you can find your preferred previews and titles without any wasted effort.

Previews can be saved in folders that you create and organise yourself. The folders can be named to best reflect your specific way of working – for example by season, by publishing group or by project status. That means your folders always reflect your own needs.

Many publishers offer review copies as digital downloads in their previews via the »LEX« button located next to the title. In many cases, review copies can be downloaded immediately, in others they must be requested from the publisher, who will then confirm (or deny) the request. In addition, the publisher’s profile contains the name of the contact person who should receive the link to the review once it appears.

Anyone can register to use VLB-TIX. Journalists, culture writers, bloggers, bookstagrammers and booktubers can sign up and immediately start exploring everything VLB-TIX has to offer, free of charge.

Guests who have not logged in can also look at previews by clicking on a shared link. Moreover, after they have registered, users can access the full range of free features available on VLB-TIX (searches, creating and saving search lists, etc.). That makes it simple for readers to enjoy your recommendations.

All images – including digital images – are subject to copyright. For more about using an image, please contact the publisher who either holds the copyright on the image or has obtained the right to display it. Generally, there are no restrictions on book covers or promotional product images, since industry practice has shown that publishers are not opposed to having their products disseminated or advertised, unless it is done in a questionable context.

The situation is different, however, for author photos and for photos, texts or illustrations that appear inside a book. In such cases, you should contact the publisher/rightsholder directly before copying such content – even digitally – and using it for your own purposes, especially commercially.

Books are classified as new titles in VLB-TIX for one year following their date of publication. New titles are listed in VLB-TIX from the day they are first announced.

Relevance ranking: Various, differently weighted factors are used to rank your search results by relevance. These include title, author, genre and publication date, along with the bestseller lists compiled by market research firm GfK.