Untreed Reads Publishing

Untreed Reads is very pleased to announce that we have completed negotiations with author Edward Wright and Jonathan Lyons of Lyons Literary, LLC to publish the second book in the award-winning John Ray Horn mystery series.

Untreed Reads has been given the ebook rights for North America to While I Disappear, the follow-up to Clea’s Moon which Untreed Reads published in ebook format in May of 2010.

While I Disappear will be published electronically Fall 2010. Clea’s Moon is currently available in ebook format from virtually all of the retailers listed on the right side of our website.

About Author Edward Wright

Edward Wright grew up in Arkansas and went to school in Tennessee and Illinois. He has been an officer in the U.S. Navy and an editor at the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times. His noir-flavored mysteries featuring John Ray Horn, set in Los Angeles during the 1940s, have won the Shamus Award in the U.S. and the Debut Dagger and Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award in the U.K. His first non-series book, Damnation Falls, a contemporary mystery-thriller set in small-town Tennessee, won the Barry Award. He and his wife, Cathy, live in the Los Angeles area. Please visit www.edwardwrightbooks.com .

Untreed Reads is very happy to announce that thanks to our partnership with Stacia J.N. Decker of the Donald Maass Literary Agency, Untreed Reads will be the ebook publisher for a new short mystery anthology tentatively titled Discount Noir. The anthology consists of super short/flash murder and mayhem centered around a very Wal-Mart/Target-esque backdrop.

The anthology contains works by: Patricia Abbott, Sophie Littlefield,
Kieran Shea, Chad Eagleton, Ed Gorman, Cormac Brown, Fleur Bradley, Alan Griffiths, Laura Benedict, Garnett Elliot, Eric Beetner, Jack Bates,
Bill Crider, Loren Eaton, John DuMond, John McFetridge, Toni McGee
Causey, Jeff Vande Zande, James Reasoner, Kyle Minor, Randy Rohn, Todd
Mason, Byron Quertermous, Sandra Scoppettone, Stephen D. Rogers, Steve
Weddle, Evan Lewis, Daniel B. O’Shea, Sandra Seamans, Albert Tucher,
Donna Moore, John Weagly, Keith Rawson, Gerald So, Dave Zeltserman,
Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen, Jay Stringer, Anne Frasier, Kathleen A. Ryan,
Eric Peterson, Chris Grabenstein and J.T. Ellison. The anthology was edited by Patricia Abbott and Steve Weddle.

Look for this title to be released in late September/early October.

Untreed Reads is pleased to announce five new retail partners that further expand our global reach, all of which are powered through our relationship with Overdrive:

BooksAMillion.com (USA): One of the nation’s largest print retailers launched an ebook store within their site a few months back. They’re a little slow to update, but from what we can see better than half of our catalog is now available there. We’ve been assured that as they catch up on their backlog, titles will post in a more timely fashion.

infibeam (Delhi, India): Very similar to Amazon, with their own ereader device.

LibraryBIN (USA): This retailer is a really fantastic concept. With each sale, the purchaser can choose a library of their choice to receive a percentage of the sale. It’s a great way to help support your local library system. The site is powered by Overdrive, a favorite among librarians looking to purchase ebooks for their systems.

Papataka (Indonesia): Indonesia’s first big ebook retailer.

Papyless (Japan): Konnichiwa! Untreed Reads hits one of the biggest ebook markets in the entire world.

These five retailers bring the current total number to an amazing **44**. We’re not done! Look for more announcements in the weeks ahead.

Unless other contractual obligations exist, our entire catalog will be available from all of these vendors. A complete list of the 44 retailers can be found on the right side of our website.

Now THIS is ingenious. According to Publisher’s Weekly, Random House and Kobo will be providing ebook readers and titles to guests at the popular Fairmont Hotel chain:

Random House, Kobo, and Fairmont Hotels are coming to the rescue of travelers who forgot to bring a book on vacation. Ten Fairmont hotels in the U.S. and Canada will have Kobo eReaders available for guests staying on Fairmont Gold, an exclusive “hotel within the hotel” that offers special perks. The Kobo eReaders will be loaded with new and bestselling Random House titles by Bret Easton Ellis, Sophie Kinsella, Alexander McCall Smith, and other authors. Upon returning the Kobo eReader, guests will receive an offer for $2 off select Random House titles redeemable at www.kobobooks.com/randomhouse.

Sounds like a really great win-win situation for everyone involved. Did we mention that all the titles from Untreed Reads are available via Kobo? Hopefully we’ll see more publishers (like us) on these devices in the future.

To read the article in its entirety, click HERE.

This in from Publisher’s Weekly this morning:

According to Amazon, over the past three months, for every 100 hardcover books it has sold, the e-tailer has sold 143 Kindle books.  Over the past month, for every 100 hardcover books Amazon has sold, it has sold 180 Kindle books.  The ratio is across Amazon’s entire U.S. book business and includes sales of hardcover books where there is no Kindle edition. Free Kindle books are excluded from the totals.

Did we mention that every single title published by Untreed Reads is available for the Kindle?

To read the article in its entirety, click HERE.

Untreed Reads has expanded its distribution again, and is pleased to announce the following additions to retailers carrying our titles:

Borders.com

Borders Australia (Australia)

ebooksmedia

Indigo Books and Music/Chapters (Canada)

Kobobooks and the Kobo Reader

Read Without Paper (Australia/New Zealand)

WHSmith (United Kingdom)

Whitcoulls (New Zealand)

At this time, more than half of our catalog is available at these retailers, and the remaining half should appear shortly.

We had the opportunity to play with the new enTourage eDGe reader at BookExpoAmerica, and we were absolutely amazed. With a 9.7 inch screen, there isn’t much this reader CAN’T do. It has a dual screen, with E-Ink on one side and a LCD tablet screen on the other. You can drag stuff between screens, take notes, record audio…the list is pretty endless and it completely shatters anything the Kindle or nook is capable of.

We’re thrilled to announce that as of today, all of the titles from Untreed Reads can be found in the enTourage eDGe ebookstore. We’re glad to be available on one of the most cutting-edge devices we’ve ever seen, and we look forward to seeing more eDGe’s pop up in people’s hands everywhere.

To read more about this fantastic product, click HERE. You’ll find our titles under “Ebooks” at their site.

Our heartiest congratulations go out to Untreed Reads author Wade J. McMahan, who has claimed two different spots on the Top 10 OmniLit.com Bestseller List with his short stories.

At #3 is Wade’s first release, “Bite This! A Richard Dick Mystery.”

The Blurb:

Detective Richard Dick is hired to look into mysterious disappearances in the town of Wareville. His client is enormous, the suspects are bizarre and the situation is turning critical. This isn’t Dick’s typical case but, then again, this laugh-out-loud story isn’t your typical mystery either!

At #9 is Wade’s latest release, “Flying Solo.”

The Blurb:

From the twisted mind of bestselling author Wade J. McMahan (“Bite This! A Richard Dick Mystery”) comes another hilarious short story. Larry the hairy-legged Fairy gets called up on the carpet by the Queen’s representative, Rupert the Low. A meeting of the two minds at a local Bug Bar, however, is about to change the situation. You’ll never look at stories about Fairies the same way again!

Both titles are only $1.50. In addition to OmniLit.com, you’ll also find both of these titles here in The Untreed Reads Store for only $1.50, and GreenPass members save an additional 15%. The titles are also discounted all this month at Smashwords with coupon code SWS25 entered at checkout. We haven’t forgotten about you Amazon folks either; both titles are also available for the Kindle.

Great news for Android users today from Amazon. The extremely popular Kindle reader is now available for use on the Android platform.

This means that all of you Android folks out there now have access to all of the great titles from Untreed Reads on your smartphone. Just install the app, look up any of our titles from the Amazon Kindle store and you’re ready to go!

There was a lot of great news to come out of yesterday’s WWDC conference from Apple, including the gorgeous new iPhone that our Editor-In-Chief is currently drooling over.

One of the biggest and best improvements for ebook readers everywhere is that iPhone 4.0 will give support for the iBookstore, thus opening it up to more than just iPad users. Also, Apple intends to allow PDF as a download option. This alone is a huge step in a market of ereaders that has truly limited itself. PDF renders very poorly on most devices, but does quite well on the iPhone, and especially well on the iPad.

Also interesting to note are the estimated sales figures from the iPad’s iBookstore for its first two months. Sources indicate that during that timeframe, Apple sold approximately 22% of all ebooks sold during that period, to the tune of about 5 million copies. That’s pretty impressive considering Apple sold close to 2 million iPads during that time. Then again, if you stop and think about the fact that 5 million copies only represents 22% of the ebook market, that’s even more impressive.

A game changer for ebooks? It sure looks that way. Of course, we couldn’t let this story go without a shameless plug that most of our titles are currently available in the iBookstore, with more to come.