About Brand New

What this site does, and what it doesn't

Brand New is for finding out what's new and what's coming soon, and for giving you a quick way to look for it at different shops. That's all it tries to do.

• It isn't a price comparison site

  It doesn't show prices, and it can't tell you where something is cheapest.

• It can't tell you who sells it or has it in stock

  The site doesn't check any shop, so it doesn't know whether a shop sells a particular book or album, or has it in stock. Every link is a starting point, not a promise.

• Every link opens a search

  Every shop link, Amazon included, opens a search on the shop's own site: for the title and author of a book, or the artist and title of an album. Those searches may find other editions, or nothing at all.

  The links don't go straight to a book's page because the ISBN in the public data is often the ebook's, which a shop may not list, and the site doesn't check. A search finds whichever editions the shop sells.

• Not every book comes in every format

  Many books never come out as ebooks or audiobooks, or they arrive later, and the site can't tell which.

• Dates change, and the lists aren't complete

  Release dates move, especially for books, and the lists are built from public data that misses some releases. Check the date with the shop before you order.

How the Amazon links work

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

The "on Amazon UK" buttons, and the smaller "Kindle" and "Audible" buttons under them, are affiliate links. An affiliate link is an ordinary link to a shop with a code added to it, so the shop knows which website sent you. Mine is matsbasblo-21, and you'll see it at the end of the Amazon address as tag=matsbasblo-21.

• How I'm paid

  If you follow one of those links and then buy something, Amazon pays me a small commission, a percentage of the price, as thanks for sending you. It generally counts anything you buy within 24 hours of clicking, not only the item you clicked on.

• You don't pay a penny more

  The price is exactly the same as if you'd gone to Amazon yourself: the commission comes out of Amazon's share, not your pocket. Amazon doesn't tell me who you are; I only see totals, such as which items were ordered through the site.

• The free trials

  The trial links for Kindle Unlimited and Audible, under a book's ebook shops, and Amazon Music Unlimited, under an album's streaming links, are affiliate links too: if you sign up from one, Amazon pays me a fixed fee. It costs you nothing extra, and the trial works the same as if you'd started it yourself.

• You never have to use them

  If you'd rather, search Amazon yourself, or buy from your local bookshop or record shop. The "More on Google Books" and "More on ISFDB" links are not affiliate links, and nobody pays to appear on this site.

Other shops

Not everyone wants to use Amazon, so every book also has an "Other shops" button, and every album a "Listen & buy" button.

Books

• Waterstones
• Bookshop.org
• Foyles
• Blackwell's
• Hive

These open a search for the title and author, as the Amazon buttons do.

Ebooks and audiobooks

• Kobo
• Google Play Books
• Spotify

Not every book has an ebook or audiobook, so these open a search, as do the Kindle and Audible links.

Streaming

• Spotify
• Apple Music
• YouTube Music
• Amazon Music
• Deezer
• Bandcamp

These open a search for the album. Until release day it may only find singles, or a pre-save, so for albums that aren't out yet the record shops come first.

Record shops

• HMV
• Rough Trade
• Norman Records
• Banquet Records
• Resident

These open a search on the shop's site, as the album links to Amazon UK do.

These are not affiliate links, Amazon Music included (only the Kindle Unlimited, Audible and Amazon Music Unlimited trial links are): I don't earn anything when you use them, and none of these shops has paid to be listed. They're there because it's your choice where you buy.

Where the data comes from

• Albums

  The ListenBrainz fresh releases feed, ranked by how many ListenBrainz listeners each artist has, with genres from MusicBrainz. MusicBrainz and ListenBrainz data is released under CC0 by the MetaBrainz Foundation.

• Album covers

  The Cover Art Archive.

• Books and book covers

  The Google Books API.

• More science fiction, fantasy and horror

  The Monthly Bibliography of the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (ISFDB), licensed under CC BY 4.0, with genres and covers from Google Books.

Privacy

• This site doesn't use cookies or adverts.
• Visits are counted with Cloudflare Web Analytics, which doesn't use cookies or identify you: it only records things like which pages are read and roughly where visitors come from. See Cloudflare's privacy policy.
• If you switch between light and dark mode, your choice is remembered in your own browser and never sent anywhere.
• Covers are loaded from the Cover Art Archive and Google, so, as with any website, those services can see your IP address.
• Once you click through to Amazon, Google Books, the ISFDB or another shop, that site's own privacy policy applies.
• The "Support me" button loads Ko-fi's donation form only when you click it; from then on, Ko-fi's privacy policy applies to that form.

Other ways to help

If you'd like to support the site directly, press the "Support me" button in the bottom corner of the page to buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. Thank you!

And if you were going to try Kindle Unlimited, Audible or Amazon Music Unlimited anyway, signing up from one of these links helps too, as Amazon pays me a fixed fee for each sign-up:

• Kindle Unlimited: ebooks, with some audiobooks and magazines, free for 30 days.
• Audible: an audiobook a month, with an offer for new members.
• Amazon Music Unlimited: ad-free music, including every new release.

All three become paid monthly subscriptions when the trial or offer ends, unless you cancel, and Amazon only offers them if you haven't had one in the last year.