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Gospoken.com Launches Bestselling Ebooks On Vodafone360

Posted at 8:01AM Friday 13 Nov 2009

GoSpoken.com, the digital book company owned by best-selling author Andy McNab is to offer eBooks through Vodafone's 360 platform

Following the growing international appeal of eReaders and eBooks, the digital book service provider GoSpoken.com is to offer Vodafone customers with Vodafone 360 mobiles across Europe, eBooks to sample, buy and download from the new Vodafone 360 Shop.

The service will offer hundreds of German and English ebooks including bestsellers like the Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer, Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy and Andy McNab's Brute Force. Selected titles will come with free eBook extracts to encourage users to experience the fluidity & mobility of reading books on their handset. Vodafone customers will eventually have access to a catalogue of thousands of free and paid for ebooks in many languages

Amer Hasan, Senior Manager, Apps & Developer Marketing at Vodafone Group said: "Mobile books constitute a new growth opportunity and are an exciting addition to the range of content on the Vodafone 360 Shop. We are delighted that GoSpoken.com have leveraged our Vodafone 360 platform to offer relevant, best-selling content for our customers in the markets we're launching in."

Mobcast Services Ltd, parent company of digital book service GoSpoken.com, has agreements with major publishers with access to thousands of eBooks covering a broad range of genres including languages, business, sport, fiction, erotic etc. The company already offers German bestselling titles and is in the process of aggregating local language European content as it becomes available in a digital format.

Audio books will be available on Vodafone 360 later on this year starting with the award-winning Pimsleur language learning books.

Andy McNab, bestselling author and co-founder of GoSpoken.com said: "Vodafone 360 is a very exciting platform for us as it allows us to reach a huge potential customer base internationally that can pay for eBooks with their mobile phones. Mobile books are the perfect boredom buster; it allows me to read or listen to quality content I otherwise would not have time for."

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