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Book View Cafe to Partner with Kobo Inc.
Apr. 21st, 2010 11:14 amBook View Café, the Internet's largest professional authors' cooperative, has announced a new partnership to distribute its growing ebook catalogue. Book View Press titles will now be carried by international ebook powerhouse Kobo Inc.
Book View Café will make the majority of their current ebooks available through Kobo's online stores. This will include titles by award-winning and bestselling authors such as Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Steven Harper, Vonda N. McIntyre, Amy Sterling Casil, Deborah J. Ross, and Patricia Rice.
To celebrate the new partnership, Book View Cafe will be making five new titles available from Kobo: King of Hearts by Jennifer Stevenson and A Wind in Cairo by Judith Tarr, along with new omnibus editions of The Starfarers Quartet by Vonda N. McIntyre, The Silent Empire Saga by Steven Harper and The Complete Paths to Camelot by Sarah Zettel. These titles will be released through Kobo for a special thirty day exclusive period.
Also coming to Kobo will be original offerings from the newly formed Book View Press, including Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, an anthology of rare and classic science fiction stories, and The Shadow Conspiracy, an all-new steampunk collection. A fantasy anthology, Dragon Lords and Warrior Women, with contributions from Sherwood Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Deborah Wheeler, and a book on writing and the publishing industry are being planned for this year.
Although Kobo offers digital rights management (DRM) for their e-book publishers, all BVC content will be made available DRM-free at their site (bookviewcafe.com) as well as at kobobooks.com.
Book View Café will make the majority of their current ebooks available through Kobo's online stores. This will include titles by award-winning and bestselling authors such as Judith Tarr, Sarah Zettel, Steven Harper, Vonda N. McIntyre, Amy Sterling Casil, Deborah J. Ross, and Patricia Rice.
To celebrate the new partnership, Book View Cafe will be making five new titles available from Kobo: King of Hearts by Jennifer Stevenson and A Wind in Cairo by Judith Tarr, along with new omnibus editions of The Starfarers Quartet by Vonda N. McIntyre, The Silent Empire Saga by Steven Harper and The Complete Paths to Camelot by Sarah Zettel. These titles will be released through Kobo for a special thirty day exclusive period.
Also coming to Kobo will be original offerings from the newly formed Book View Press, including Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls, an anthology of rare and classic science fiction stories, and The Shadow Conspiracy, an all-new steampunk collection. A fantasy anthology, Dragon Lords and Warrior Women, with contributions from Sherwood Smith, Ursula K. Le Guin, and Deborah Wheeler, and a book on writing and the publishing industry are being planned for this year.
Although Kobo offers digital rights management (DRM) for their e-book publishers, all BVC content will be made available DRM-free at their site (bookviewcafe.com) as well as at kobobooks.com.
