Fifteen MacmillanScience titles are now available as e-books to browse and buy from February 2007 at www.macmillansciencebookstore.com. Macmillan Science has selected the BookStore platform to host and sell their digital content. Customers worldwide will be able to download the books in three competitively-priced industry standard formats, Adobe eReader, MS Reader and Mobipocket Reader. Alternatively readers can buy online access to the e-Books for one year. Further titles and ways to buy them are to come during 2007.
“Digital access gives many more people the chance to search, sample and purchase these critically acclaimed popular science works,” says MacmillanScience Publisher, Sara Abdulla. “Authors, reviewers and readers have been asking us for e-books since we launched in 2003 — they are flexible, future-proof and eco-friendly.”
The MacmillanScience list features entertaining, authoritative books about the drama, politics, history and implications of research and discovery. Bookstore holds, displays and sells e-book content in a secure and searchable form, while allowing the publisher to maintain full control over all copyright, licensing and pricing.
“Bookstore from MPS Technologies is a great new way to get more books to more readers,” says Richard Charkin, CEO Macmillan Publishers Ltd. “I’m very pleased that MacmillanScience, like Macmillan New Writing, can be among the first publishers to showcase e-books there thanks to their forward-thinking publishing models and courageous, enthusiastic authors.”
Each month www.macmillansciencebookstore.com will be updated with new books, novel ways of accessing them and details of author events, reviews and special offers. One week access and chapter-by-chapter packages will be added soon.
All the authors at MacmillanScience are enthusiastic about their work becoming available digitally. “I wrote my book so that other people could read my ideas and make up their own minds. Putting it online means its going to be easier to get hold of and cheaper to buy. Plus the electronic version can be searched which makes it far more useful. What author could ask for more?” says Toby Murcott, author of alternative medicine exposé The Whole Story.
“I agree. I’m delighted that readers will now have new options to enjoy my book via online courses and handheld e-readers,” says Jonathan Balcombe, author of animal behaviour exploration, Pleasurable Kingdom.
Others emphasise e-books’ positive environmental side. “I’ve always been troubled by the environmental impact of all the paper and truck miles that go into having a book on the market,” comments Dave Reay, author of Climate Change Begins at Home, “now I can rest a little easier.”
Notes for editors
Press enquires for MacmillanScience Books:
- UK/EU/Rest Of World press enquiries to Lisa Hayden: [email protected] +44 (0) 207 014 4033
- US & Canada press enquiries to Cheryl Vawdrey: [email protected]
- Australia press enquiries to Jenny McHendrie: [email protected] +61 (0) 3 9825 1157-
- Extract enquiries to Jon Mitchell: [email protected] +44 (0) 20 7014 6151
- Jacket & author image downloads: http://www.macmillanscience.com/download.htm
- For more information see www.macmillanscience.com
MacmillanScience: is the critically acclaimed global popular science list from the publishers of leading international journal of science, Nature, launched in January 2003. The list features entertaining, authoritative books about the drama, politics, history and implications of research and discovery; all rights are contracted for no advances and high royalties. Published globally in English with Palgrave Macmillan, titles are promoted via Macmillan's Nature Publishing Group journals and the Scientific American Group magazines and their websites, in addition to the usual trade channels. Macmillan has an illustrious record of publishing leading scientific thinkers, including Thomas Huxley, Alfred Russell Wallace, C P Snow, H G Wells, Oliver Sacks, Arthur C Clarke, Peter Atkins and Ian Stewart.
BookStore from MPS Technologies: is a digital content delivery platform that stores and displays e-book content for publishers. It provides publishers with their own secure and scalable repository, from which they may make their content available for search and purchase online. Importantly, it enables the publisher to retain full control over all copyright, metadata, licensing (including price, territory and duration), payments and customer data, allowing publishers to experiment with the new business models made possible by the evolution of online content.
- General MPS Bookstore press enquiries to Rupert Bacon: [email protected]
- For more information see www.mpsbookstore.com
ADDITIONAL COMMENT FROM MACMILLANSCIENCE AUTHORS
“An e-book is, funnily enough, the most appropriate way to read Middle World. Liquid crystals are quintessential middle world molecules — if it wasn't for them there’d be no sleek computer screens to read my book on!” Mark Haw author of Middle World: The restless heart of matter and life.
"I am delighted that Lonesome George is to be given an online airing. The more people who hear what this shy giant tortoise has to tell us about our relationship with the natural world, the better.” Henry Nicholls author of Lonesome George: The life and loves of the world’s most famous tortoise.
"I'm glad that Space On Earth will be electronic. This should make my book accessible to many people living in countries where a printed version is hard to come by." Charles Cockell author of Space On Earth: Saving our world by seeking others.
"I am delighted to have Broken Genius available via the web. Its subject, William Shockley, would approve. The easier it is for someone to read and search my book, the happier I am.” Joel Shurkin author of Broken Genius: The rise and fall of William Shockley, creator of the electronic age
“De la Mettrie would be spinning in his grave with delight. A few clicks and anyone can read how his thinking was way ahead of its time. I'm happy too.” Chris Nunn author of De La Mettrie’s Ghost: The Story of Decisions
"What a timely prospect! The future is here for a book on lessons from the past." Chris Turney, author of Bones Rocks and Stars: The Science Of When Things Happened.
