September 22, 2005

Book samples to your mobile phone

screenshot_diagram.gif In Australia, Harper Collins Publishershave partnered with Legion Interactive to offer to offer customers book chapter samples directly to their mobile phone, reports Adverblog.

"The service is called MobileReader and it was created to fulfill the needs of booklovers who don't have the time to gather information on the upcoming books.

The first excerpts will be from bestsellers authors Dean Koontz and Paulo Coelho and from the Australian author Janine Allis. Mobile can sign up online, on the MobileReader website."

This publishing house giant is obviously very mobile-centric, in August HarperCollins Children's Books UK,set up the Meg Cabot Mobile Club to create an interactive relationship with young fans of the author of the same name.

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