Wednesday, 11 February 2015

BOOK NEWS: Finding Your Favourite Authors Ebooks just got easier - Hachette Group UK.

Hail Mighty Readers and Followers of the Calloused Thumbs, 
Our friends at the Hachette Group have let us know about the ease of accessing all thier ebooks, here's the press release:

"Gateway, an imprint of the Orion Publishing Group and sister company to the UK's oldest science fiction publisher Gollancz, is an eBook publisher of classic SF and Fantasy.  It is part catalogue site, highlighting and promoting the thousands of eBooks; part gateway to online retailers from whom these eBooks can be bought; part social network for readers who wish to discuss and recommend authors.

Gateway's parent company, the Orion Publishing Group is owned by the Hachette UK Group, which also owns Little, Brown, Hodder & Stoughton and Headline publishers, among others. Little, Brown is home to one of the UK's major SFF imprints, Orbit, who publish such genre heavyweights as Iain M. Banks, Terry Brooks, David Gemmell, Robert Jordan and Elizabeth Moon. Hodder & Stoughton and Headline are also home to some hugely respected writers of the fantastic, such as Jean M. Auel, Ben Bova and Jack McDevitt, and share Robert A. Heinlein, and Harry Turtledove with Gateway.

In Gateway’s on-going efforts to make the website the ultimate source of classic SF and Fantasy, the imprint are delighted to welcome an outstanding selection of authors from Orbit, Hodder & Stoughton and Headline to the site.

The full list of new authors, whose works are live on the Gateway site from today, includes:

Jean M. Auel
Iain M. Banks
Ben Bova
David Brin
Terry Brooks
Orson Scott Card
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Celia Friedman
David Gemmell
Tom Holt
Robert Jordan
Richard Laymon
Ken MacLeod
Gregory Maguire
Jack McDevitt
Elizabeth Moon

We can't wait to go back and reread some of these classics,



Gareth and Lady Eleanor


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