Simon & Schuster Launches Ebookstore
Posted on November 7, 2001
Simon & Schuster has announced the grand opening of SimonSaysShop.com, an ebookstore hosted at the company's website, SimonSays.com. The store will carry titles from nearly every division of Simon & Schuster. The store launch includes three free ebook offerings.
``Our website, SimonSays.com attracts millions of unique visitors every year,'' said Jack Romanos, President and Chief Operating Officer of Simon & Schuster. ``By integrating the informational and community functions we are already providing with the transactional capability of SimonSaysShop.com, we can help to increase both the visibility and accessibility of ebooks, make ebook shopping an altogether easier proposition for the consumer, and at the same time promote all our publishing formats.''
SimonSaysShop.com will offer hundreds of titles by such bestselling authors as Stephen E. Ambrose, V.C. Andrews, Mary Higgins Clark, Jeffery Deaver, Stephen King and David McCullough. Coming soon will be ebooks by Jimmy Carter, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Dr. Phil McGraw, and Pope John Paul II.
To celebrate the grand opening of SimonSaysShop.com all titles in the store will initially be sold at 20% off retail price. The store will also feature a collection of ebooks under $5.00. SimonSays.com will also offer, for a limited time, three free original ebooks:
- The Magic of Tribbles, an original nonfiction Star Trek ebook that has never appeared in any format, electronic or print.
- Triangle by Jeffery Deaver, an Edgar Award-nominated short story by the bestselling author of The Blue Nowhere and The Empty Chair.
- Cage of Love and Little Psychic, both by V.C. Andrews, vignettes based on her haunting and dramatic paintings.