From book reviews and author interviews to a blog and e-newsletter services, monthly review magazine BookPage has become one of the United States' most popular sources of new book evaluations and news for librarians, booksellers, readers, and publishers, covering some 100 new works of fiction, nonfiction, children's books, and audiobooks in each issue. BookPage is a selection guide, recommending the best in new books each month. Created by book industry veteran Michael Zibart in 1988, BookPage proved that selling mass quantities of a quality monthly book review to bookstores and libraries so they could give them free to readers benefited everyone. It was an unheard of concept, in which naysayers claimed that "only" readers would win, and not for long, for surely BookPage would have to go out of business. Instead, libraries, which are government-sponsored in the United States, looked upon offering the free review as a service to readers, since it consistently chronicled a broad range of general-interest books. Bookstore owners found BookPage helped readers find books they, too, wanted to read -- and were willing to buy. Today, BookPage is distributed to more than 400,000 readers in more than 3,500 libraries and bookstores across the United States and is considered one of the nation's top 10 reviews.