More good deeds – Quick Reads

It seems like Isabel Allende is not the only one doing good deeds today. Our friends Enhanced Editions, who helped us out with the amazing Wolf Hall app have also produced these iPhone versions of 2010’s Quick Reads books, published on World Book Day.

As part of this year’s Quick Reads and World Book Day initiatives, Enhanced Editions has partnered with a number of leading publishers to bring brilliantly written books by bestselling authors and celebrities to the iPhone.

Each product contains sample chapters from the other Quick Reads apps, a news feed to keep you up-to-date with competitions and other events, as well as all of our usual features.

The apps include short titles by authors Andy McNab, Peter James (who made his first iPhone outing late last year with this excellent carousel app) and my favourite, Cathy Kelly’s The Perfect Holiday. (Biased? Me? Never.)

All the apps are priced at £1.79.

About The Perfect Holiday

On an idyllic Greek island, Anthony and Carole have begun to repair their damaged marriage. Widowed Jessica has started to heal at last and is learning to live her life again. But on the flight home, unexpected and startling events force Anthony, Carole and Jessica to face up to the difficult truths they have been avoiding. By the time they land, the lessons they have learned will change their lives for ever.

About The Quick Reads initiative:

Quick Reads are part of a campaign to get more people reading in the UK and Ireland. They are short, sharp shots of entertainment – fast, fun books by bestselling writers and celebrities which prove that books can be as exciting as an action film and as thrilling as a theme-park ride. Since its inception in March 2006, over one and a quarter million Quick Reads have reached new readers.

Free courses are available for anyone who wants to develop their skills. You can attend the courses in your local area. If you’d like to find out more, phone 0800 66 0800.

A list of books for new readers can be found on www.firstchoicebooks.org.uk or at your local library.

Publishers Barrington Stoke and New Island also provide books for new readers.

The BBC runs an adult basic skills campaign. See www.bbc.co.uk/raw.

Enhanced Editions is committed to improving literacy and using technology to bring great literature to new readers. In keeping with this commitment, all of our profits from the Quick Reads titles will be donated to a literacy charity.

(from enhanced-editions.com)

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