S&S Signs with Global Reader

by Craig Morgan Teicher -- Publishers Weekly, 10/13/2008 7:18:00 AM

Simon & Schuster and Macmillan Publishing Solutions subsidiary MPS Mobile announced a partnership today through which MPS will distribute over 500 S&S e-books through its Global Reader platform, which makes digital book content available over any Web-enabled mobile phone. Among the titles Global Reader will immediately make available are The Secret, and Star Trek books. Excerpts of both will be given away as a promotion to introduce the service. Other titles available at launch include Nancy Drew mysteries and books by Ernest Hemingway. Eventually, all S&S e-books will be made available through the service.

Since BEA last spring, MPS has made several other announcements, such as the adoption of ePub and an interface redesign for Global Reader, plus a distribution deal with the e-book-only imprint E-Reads. Global Reader is available in over 160 countries.