S&S, GoSpoken to Offer E-titles for Mobile Phones

-- Publishers Weekly, 4/17/2009 1:51:00 PM

Simon & Schuster is teaming up with GoSpoken.com, a U.K.-based provider of e-books and audiobooks for mobile phones, to offer a selection of S&S tiles for U.S. mobile phones. Initial titles include the Booker prize-winning The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga, Angels & Demons by Dan Brown and Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Titles will be available through the Blackberry App World online store and can be found in the reference and e-books category. They can also be purchased through GoSpoken.com’s website. The partnership will release about eight downloadable titles initially with more to be released in the coming weeks. GoSpoken offers about 2,000 e-books and audiobooks to the U.K market and the deal with S&S represents the company’s first entry into the U.S. market. The company expects to offer up to 20,000 titles to the U.S. market by the end of the year.

Ellie Hirschhorn,S&S executive v-p and chief digital officer, said the house is, “committed to offering our content on as many digital platforms and devices as possible. By partnering with GoSpoken we are now able to reach millions of BlackBerry users nationwide.”