Free Mobile-Format Ebooks from Manning Publications

Ebooks for Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone, Sony Reader, and other popular mobile devices are included with many Manning books at no extra cost.

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iPhone in Action

iPhone in Action (image simulated)

Quote start...it's great to be able to read this book easily on the morning train.Quote end

Greenwich, CT (PRWEB) November 30, 2009

Starting today, when customers buy selected pbooks or ebooks from Manning Publications, they will also be able to download free ebook versions formatted for the Amazon Kindle, Apple iPhone, and Sony Reader.

Manning expects to have mobile ebook versions of more than a dozen titles released by the end of the year, starting with these popular titles:

  • "ASP.NET MVC in Action" by Jeffrey Palermo, Ben Scheirman, and Jimmy Bogard
  • "Grails in Action" by Glen Smith and Peter Ledbrook
  • "iPhone in Action" by Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline
  • "Unlocking Android" by W. Frank Ableson, Charlie Collins, and Robi Sen
  • "jQuery in Action" by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz
  • "The Well-Grounded Rubyist" by David A. Black
Standard ebook formats, like PDF, aren’t designed for the small screens of portable devices. The new formats, called epub and mobi, were created with the Kindle, iPhone, and Sony Reader in mind: Pages have been resized and images optimized to be displayed on a small screen.

Manning readers are already writing (and tweeting) to say they love the new formats.

"[iPhone in Action] looks great in Stanza and it's great to be able to read this book easily on the morning train."
"Mobi version of ASP.NET MVC in Action is great on the Kindle2."
"Thanks for getting those out! That should make reading on the iPhone a MUCH better experience."
"This weekend, I received a link to download ASP.NET MVC in Action on my Kindle and was blown away. This goes above and beyond my expectations."

This isn't the first time Manning has given customers something for nothing: "We offer free ebooks to our print book customers, regardless of where they buy their book," says Manning’s Publisher Marjan Bace. "It's the same with these new formats—everyone who already purchased and registered one of these books will get a free download link from us. No one is left out."

As more titles become available, details will appear at manning.com/catalog/mobile/ and on each book's individual web page at manning.com.

For More information:
Todd Green
togr (at) manning (dot) com
http://www.manning.com/catalog/mobile

Manning Publications publishes high quality books for computer professionals, and is known for innovations including selling ebooks as unprotected PDFs, and electronically releasing chapters in development, within its Early Access program.

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