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Andy McNab’s GoSpoken.com brings Macmillan’s entire eBook catalogue to mobile
Thursday, February 26th, 2009By Paul Biba
Received the following press release from Pan Macmillan:
Today, GoSpoken.com, mobile platform for audio andeBooks, and the book publisher Macmillan announced an extension of their already existing partnership on audio books for the mobile; the full catalogue of more than 320 ebook titles from MacMillan will be made available to all UK mobile phone subscribers.
EBooks have successfully entered the market on several portable eReaders. Macmillan has been one of the most active publishers to engage with mobile channels and is now extending its activity through GoSpoken. Whilst the portable eReaders cost up to a few hundred GBP, the GoSpoken application is available to all JAVA supported handsets and comes for free with every mobile eBook. GoSpoken.com has established relationships with Vodafone UK and Hutchison 3G UK ….
Ex-SAS (Special Air Service) operative turned best-selling author, Andy McNab founded the audio-and-eBook-for-mobile company, which was then supported by Lord Ashcroft’s investment organisations. GoSpoken offers more than 1,500 titles from authors including Stephen King, Ann Cleeves and Jeffrey Archer. Mobile phone owners can browse and buy titles in either text or audio format and download each book in minutes over any operator’s network.
EBooks cost can be bought via the mobile phone bill for £5 to £10 each and audio titles can be downloaded in sections for £1 to £3 each. Any titles above that price can be bought via a mobile credit card payment
