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Faber partners with digital proof company

25.08.11 | Charlotte Williams

Faber has partnered with NetGalley to release secure digital proofs of their titles through the US website to reviewers, booksellers, librarians and bloggers around the world.

Professional readers can register for free with the NetGalley website, in order to request access to a publisher's digital proofs, with the publisher then approving requests depending on the information provided by the reader. The material will be able to be viewed on devices including the Kindle, Kobo Reader, Nook and Sony Reader, as well as tablets such as iPad and Android.

Faber head of editorial text management David Watkins said: "Faber is implementing a digital first workflow which allows us to provide early proofs in the range of formats required for all major reading devices. The creation of our own digital works gives us both a great degree of flexibility and very tight quality control. Faber’s digital proofs should be in excellent shape."

Marketing director Joanna Ellis said: "Faber and Faber is delighted to be partnering with NetGalley which provides such a neat way of delivering advanced reading copies to the people who help shape the fate of a book. The number of reviewers and booksellers asking us for digital proofs has grown steadily over the last six months and NetGalley offer a secure and cost-effective way to meet this demand. We’ll be making the first of our digital proofs available to our contacts in early September and we anticipate having a rolling catalogue of 20 books available at any one time."

• Charlotte Williams
• David Watkins
• Faber
• Joanna Ellis
• NetGalley