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Star Trek books now on Mobile Phones!

Andy Mangels

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A friend of mine who works for the company sent me this. She tried to join the forum but was rejected, so I'm posting this on her behalf:

SIMON & SCHUSTER TITLES NOW AVAILABLE ON MOBILE PHONES THROUGH MPS MOBILE’S GLOBAL READER

Star Trek Series Among Hundreds of Titles

To Be Available at wap.global-reader.com

MPS Mobile’s Global Reader, a worldwide mobile content distribution service, announced a major content partnership with Simon & Schuster. As part of the agreement, more than five hundred of Simon & Schuster’s bestselling and popular titles are now available via the Global Reader mobile distribution network, accessible to readers on any Internet enabled mobile device they are currently using.

Among the titles available are the mega-selling phenomenon The Secret and books from the Star Trek series, the most successful franchise in publishing history. As a special introductory promotion, mobile users can get free excerpts and a demonstration of the Global Reader service. Readers can text either “ Star Trek to 22646” (+44 7786 203222 outside the U.S.A.) and get a direct link to this content, or access wap.global-reader.com on their mobile browsers. Additional titles available include works by Ernest Hemingway, bestselling series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Nancy Drew and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, teen classic Go Ask Alice, and Edgar Award winning author James Lee Burke’s The Tin Roof Blowdown. The full Simon & Schuster eBook catalog will be made available in the coming months.


Douglas Stambaugh, Executive Director, Business Development and Operations for Simon & Schuster Digital commented: “We are very excited about our partnership with MPS Global Reader. With over 3.3 billion Internet-enabled mobile devices in existence worldwide, the potential market for mobile reading is enormous. This represents another great opportunity for us to bring our authors’ works to a platform consumers are increasingly using to get information and entertainment.”

In commenting Global Reader’s Director of Sales Bob Kasher stated. “We are thrilled to join with Simon & Schuster to present a strong list of popular titles on Global Reader. This is truly the new frontier and partnering with such a giant of the literary world enables us to expand our selection of quality content”
 
Thanks Andy. I just signed up and made a purchase. Once I check it out more, I'll let others know how it is.
 
If you call Kirsten Beyer, she'll read them to you in a sexy radio traffic chick voice.




(Just to save time, I'm going to go ahead and punch myself in the onions on her behalf.)
 
^ Reading eBooks on a mobile phone? I suppose it would depend on the size of the screen. On my phone? No way in hell. On an iPhone or something with a larger display? Maybe, but if I'm ever buy a portable eReader, it's going to be something with a screen that approximates the size of a page from a paperback book.
 
If you call Kirsten Beyer, she'll read them to you in a sexy radio traffic chick voice.

(Just to save time, I'm going to go ahead and punch myself in the onions on her behalf.)


This is classic.

As for the service, the book downloaded to my phone with no issues, but reading it is painful. I got to page 16 or so and that was enough for the migraine to set in. And not because the book was bad...But because I needed a magnifying glass to read it.
 
^ Thats what I was wondering.

Cuz I figured either the font would be tiny, or I'd get less than 20 words at a time... it seems like a scary way to read a novel...

I mean, on something the size of an itouch/blackberry/iphone/whatever... but something with a 2" screen? Yikes!
 
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