Thunder Bay Press Anatomy 360: The Ultimate Visual Guide to the Human Body Awarded Top Honors in Reference in ForeWords 2011 Book of the Year Awards


San Diego, CA (PRWEB) July 11, 2012

Thunder Bay Press is excited to announce that Anatomy 360: The Ultimate Guide to the Human Body (ISBN: 978-1-60710-213-7) has been given a Gold Award in Reference in ForeWords 2011 Book of the Year Awards. Released in the fall of 2011, Anatomy 360 is a top-selling reference book that depicts the human body in its entiretyfrom the skin to the muscles to the organs to the bones. With detailed pictures and vivid explanations, this stunning book provides a unique perspective on our most crucial parts, showing how the structures of our bodies influence their functions.

ForeWords Book of the Year Awards program is designed for booksellers and librarians to share in the process of discovering distinctive books across a number of genres with judgments based on their own authority and on patron interests. The 2011 Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honorable Mention Award Winners were announced on June 23 at the ALA Annual Meeting in Anaheim.

We are thrilled and honored by the award given to Anatomy 360, said Peter Norton, Publisher Thunder Bay Press. We had a vision to create an anatomy book that balanced the art and the science of the human body. An anatomy book that appealed to everyone from academics to art aficionados. The amazingly detailed images, rendered from almost limitless perspectives, differentiate this visual celebration. We are extremely excited to see that this book is being recognized for its beautiful and ambitious nature.

ForeWord Reviews’ Book of the Year Awards bring increased attention to librarians and booksellers of the literary and graphic achievements of independent publishers and their authors. ForeWord is the only review trade journal devoted exclusively to books from independent houses. Their unique awards process brings readers, librarians, and booksellers together to select their top categories as well as choose the winning titles. Their decisions are based on editorial excellence, professional production, originality of the narrative, author credentials relative to the book, and the value the book adds to its genre.

Keeping in mind the standard used by booksellers and librarians for purchases and acquisitions, judging was based on items such as editorial excellence, originality of subject matter, accuracy, author credentials and professional packaging. Finalists were determined by a jury of judges consisting of editors and reviewers of ForeWord Reviews, booksellers, librarians, and other industry professionals.

About Thunder Bay Press:

Thunder Bay Press (http://www.thunderbaybooks.com) is an imprint of Baker & Taylor Publishing Group, the largest distributor of traditional and digital media in the world. Thunder Bay is a collection of coffee table-style reference books suitable for gift-giving on the subjects of art, architecture, pets, cooking, travel, culture, hobbies, religion, transportation and nature. Thunder Bay Press is perhaps most known for its best-selling Then and Now series.

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Blekko Debuts ROCKZi, the Visual Platform for Fresh Content Curation

Redwood Shores, CA (PRWEB) July 12, 2012

blekko today unveiled the all new ROCKZi, a social environment that delivers the power of curation to the everyday internet user. ROCKZi brings communities of likeminded people together to discuss and comment on timely and relevant news.

The new curated social platform features news boards with popular topic categories like sports, politics, fashion, tech, recipes and more. Users simply click on one of the news boards to view timely, quality content from top sources on the Web in an easily digestible format. In addition, on the news boards ROCKZi users vote stories up, share articles and comments with friends and, in the process, collect their own favorite content. ROCKZi users can contribute relevant content from any place on the Web through an easy to use browser bookmark.

ROCKZis great content, its state of the art design, and its very intuitive, low touch set of tools, creates a social platform that brings curation to the masses, said Rich Skrenta, CEO of blekko. Everyone reading content from anywhere in the web can now also be curating it.

The site is launching today with an initial 33 news boards and plans to expand to several hundred in the next few weeks and thousands by the end of the year. ROCKZi users will eventually have the ability to create their own custom news boards which they can share with their Facebook network and the ROCKZi community.

ROCKZi is blekkos initial effort at taking a different tack on the social and search divide. Rather than the traditional approach of adding more social features to the search interface, ROCKZi creates an independent, low-touch social environment that utilizes search assets and allows users to engage in the content they care about most.

As the number of news boards expands and we introduce more customizable Boards, this has the very powerful potential to revolutionize the way we discover good content on the increasingly cluttered Web, added Skrenta.

Social signals generated by the ROCKZi user base will eventually translate into search signals that blekko can use to identify the highest quality content and curate search results while pushing spam to the bottom.

The introduction of ROCKZi comes as blekkos audience continues to grow. Blekko was founded in 2007 to seek innovations that would eventually eliminate spam from search. In 2010 the company introduced its search engine and unveiled slashtag technology that essentially allowed experts to create vertical search so that results were curated to focus on the best sources on the Web. Users created 100,000 plus slashtags on topics as diverse as college football to gluten free. In May 2012, blekko recorded 5.5 million unique visitors who made more than 110 million searches.

For more information, visit: http://www.rockzi.com

About blekko

Founded in 2007, blekko has pursued technology innovations that would eliminate spam in search results. The company’s investors and strategic partners are Yandex, MLC Private Equity, U.S. Venture Partners, CMEA Capital, PivotNorth Capital, and leading angel investors including Ron Conway, Mike Maples, Jeff Clavier, and Marc Andreessen. blekko has 44 employees, including former Google and Yahoo! Search engineers.







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