Complete review

The complete review is an English literary website made since March 1999. It is mainly known quotations from and to aggregate links to book reviews, supplemented by a review of the respective plant. In addition, it offers the blog Literary Saloon and was founded in February 2000 electronic literary magazine complete review Quarterly, in the since 2008 but hardly any new material published since August 2002. Although the site is privately operated and used by an individual, it has now (as of 2012) reviews of over 2,800 books and receives several hundred review copies per year, according to own data. It was founded in 2004 by the New York Times as one of the " best literary correspondents on the Web" and in 2005 named by Time magazine as one of the " 50 coolest websites of the Year".

History

The complete review was founded in March 1999 by the Austrian-born Michael A. Orthofer, who currently lives in New York City. His original idea was to create a site that collects links to as many available on the web reviews In addition to basic information on individual books. Since not all books detailed discussions were to be found, he soon went on to supplement the links through their own reviews. To the side to give an institutional identity, Orthofer signed his first contributions not by name. In April 2009, he stated that about 95 % of the previously published articles by him came and proceeded to reviews and blog entries bear his name.

The complete review does not use a content management system, but holds tightly on to his original, simple, hand-written layout. It is funded mainly by participating in the amazon.com affiliate program. In this context, the site receives a commission for any purchases that came through a link from the complete review concluded.