Oct
13
Simon & Schuster to Begin Delivering Content to Mobile Phones

Simon & Schuster is partnering with Macmillan Publishing Solutions to deliver over 500 Simon & Schuster books to any “web-enabled mobile phone.” Titles will include “The Secret”, Star Trek books, Nancy Drew mysteries and Ernest Hemingway stories. The plan is for all S&S ebooks to be available through the service.

My suggestion? Get your YA books on the service. I don’t know a kid beyond the age of 12 in my neighborhood that doesn’t have a web enabled phone. As for me, I don’t even know how to access this Global Reader platform so I hope that the S&S promotions give us some idea of how to connect to S&S.

Via Publishers’ Weekly.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 13th, 2008 at 9:05 am and is filed under Publishing News. Tagged: , , , . You can feed this entry. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

JaneJane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. She's currently loving contemporary authors like Sarah Mayberry and Kristan Higgins but her first love will always be the historical. Some of her old time favorites are Amanda Quick and Johanna Lindsey and some of the new favorites are Sherry Thomas, Joanna Bourne and Claudia Dain. Email this author | All posts by Jane
« HarperStudio’s CEO, Bob Miller, Begins a Series on the Broken Publishing Model
REVIEW: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas »

One comment to “Simon & Schuster to Begin Delivering Content to Mobile Phones”

  1. 1 by SK October 15th, 2008 at 4:35 am Reply to this comment

    Hey Jane, thats an interesting observation… I don’t know if its healthy for kids to read books on their phones, but I guess this way they will read more than before. I checked out the Global Reader service and found it to be very easy to use. just go to http://wap.global-reader.com on your phone.

    Hope they keep adding more books to the library. It sure is convinient when commuting but I still think nothing beats the feel of a good book in my hands!

    - a fellow book lover

Say What's On Your mind

Subscribe without commenting



« HarperStudio’s CEO, Bob Miller, Begins a Series on the Broken Publishing Model
REVIEW: A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas »

  • Ads

    Creative Direction Workshop
    January 30 - February 1, 2009
    Instructors: April Martinez, Anne Cain, Chris Griffin and Croco Designs

    http://www.creativedirection-workshops.org/

    April Martinez, Anne Cain, Chris Griffin and Croco Designs banded together for an art workshop for cover artists, authors and in general anyone who's interested in working with Photoshop Elements, making promo items, creating covers etc.

  • Polls

    Would you pay more for DRM free digital files like music, movies or ebooks

    View Results

    Loading ... Loading ...

    Check out the Open Thread for this Poll:

  • Open Thread Events

    Open Threads at Dear Author. Want to know what new releases are out this month and what readers are excited about reading? Check out the threads below.

  • New and Upcoming Releases

    Check out the new and upcoming releases from the Dear Author Amazon store. You don't have to buy anything from the store, but you can use it as a reference.

    If you do buy something, Dear Author gets a kick back of 6%.

  • Subscribe by Email

      Enter your email address:

      Delivered by FeedBurner

  • Comment Moderation

    We don’t like to censor comments nor do we endorse the comments of any poster. We do reserve the right to moderate comments but most of the time will not, believing, as Justice Brandeis did, that the greater good is in “more speech, not enforced silence.”

    You can read the full position statement here.

  • Jane's Smart Bitch Title

      Awarded on April 8, 2008!

      SmartBitch Title