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The Old Man and the Cell Phone: Papa Goes Mobile with Simon & Schuster

Published on October 27, 2008 | Email this article

Simon & Schuster is experimenting with mobile books, making 500 of its titles - spanning genres from Hemingway to Nancy Drew titles to books from the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series - available for download on cell phones.

While Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s eReader have been the main topic of conversation in the U.S. when it comes to mobile books, cell phones have been a popular vehicle for ebooks in Japan. In fact, five of the top 10 best-selling books in Japan last year were originally written as cell phone novels, writes Media Life.

A small publisher in the U.K., Caffeine Nights, has recently announced it would make two books available on cell phones. The author, and founder of the publishing house, believes he is the first British publisher to do so.

The Secret and books from the Star Trek series are the first to be made available. Books by Hemingway, the CSI books, Nancy Drew books, Buffy the Vampire Slayer titles, teen classic Go Ask Alice and James Lee Burke’s book Tin Roof Blowdown will be the next titles to launch, writes the Christian Science Monitor. The rest of the publisher’s titles will become available over the next several months.

MPS Mobile’s Global Reader, a worldwide mobile content distribution service, is partnering with Simon & Schuster to make the books available.

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