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 Vodafone 360 Shop.
The service will offer hundreds of German and English ebooks. Selected titles will come with free eBook extracts to encourage users to experience the fluidity and 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.
Mobile books constitute a new growth opportunity and are an exciting addition to the range of content on the Vodafone 360 Shop, says Amer Hasan, Senior Manager, Apps & Developer Marketing at Vodafone Group. We are delighted that GoSpoken.com have leveraged our Vodafone 360 platform to offer relevant, best-selling content for our customers in the markets were launching in.
GoSpoken.coms parent company, Mobcast Services, has agreements with major publishers with access to thousands of eBooks covering a broad range of genres, including languages, business, sport and fiction. 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 this year, starting with the award-winning Pimsleur language learning books.