Monday, January 05, 2009


ScrollMotion concludes publisher deals
The Bookseller, 24.12.08

Mobile application developer Scrollmotion has signed an e-book deal with publishers including Random House, the Penguin Group and Simon and Schuster. The New York content-technology company creates digital versions of books for the iPhone and iPod Touch using the firm's Iceberg reading application.
E-books available as Iceberg Apps may be purchased and downloaded wirelessly directly to the device. In addition, consumers will be able to simultaneously listen to music and read e-books.

Books included in Iceberg format are BRISINGR by Christopher Paolini, as well as Paolini’s previous two novels in his Inheritance cycle, ERAGON and ELDEST; the celebrated HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy by Philip Pullman, which includes THE GOLDEN COMPASS; PERSUADER by bestselling novelist Lee Child, and the 2008 Fiction National Book Award winner, SHADOW COUNTRY by Peter Mathiessen.

Matt Shatz, vice president, digital for Random House Inc. said: "The iPhone and iPod Touch present exciting and fun ways for people to access some great Random House reading. With this valued collaboration with Scroll Motion, we are pleased to be making this initial list of outstanding books by some of our top-selling authors available to a ground-breaking group of readers."

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