AALBC.com, the African American Literature Book Club, is a website dedicated to books and film by and about African Americans and people of African descent, with content also aimed at African-American bookstores.Martin Arnold, "MAKING BOOKS; Book Clubs With a Mission", The New York Times, January 11, 2001., USA Today, December 23, 1998. AALBC.com publishes book and film reviews, author profiles, resources for writers and related articles. Launched in 1998, AALBC was founded by Troy Johnson."WEB SITES", Miami Herald, March 28, 1999.Pamela Licalzi O'Connell, "On-Line Book Clubs: Everything but Food", The New York Times, March 18, 1999. It targets primarily a middle-aged African-American female demographic.Felicia Pride, "Buyers Aware: Inside the Black Book Market", Publishers Weekly, December 7, 2007. AALBC previously sold books through the Amazon.com affiliate program, and then started to operate its own warehousing and distribution program.Calvin Reid, "Selling Urban Fiction", Publishers Weekly, January 23, 2006.
See also African-American literature List of African-American writers
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Appearances by Troy Johnson on C-SPAN