HUBBARD'S
AWARD WINNING E-BOOK,
‘BATTLEFIELD EARTH' TO RELEASE IN 10 LANGUAGES
The world-wide science
fiction adventure bestseller, Battlefield Earth
by L. Ron Hubbard, will be released in 10 different
languages in eBook format this year-setting a benchmark
pace for fiction in the eBook industry, as was just
announced by Galaxy Press.
Underscoring what he
called "a continuing, strong commitment to the
still-burgeoning eBook marketplace," Galaxy Press
President and Publisher John Goodwin said the company
will initially release the 430,000 word Battlefield
Earth-the biggest single science fiction novel in
electronic publishing-in Spanish, German, Swedish,
Danish and French. EBook versions in Italian, Dutch,
Brazilian, Portuguese and Bulgarian will follow.
Celebrating its 20th
anniversary with the release of a new hardcover special
edition and as one of the best-selling science fiction
novels in history, Battlefield Earth has also
been a breakthrough bestseller in the conventional
publishing industry with nearly 7 million print copies
of the epic future-Earth adventure already sold in 26
languages. The novel has appeared on over 500 bestseller
lists around the world.
The English eBook
edition of Battlefield Earth recently won the
CyberRead Award for the best-selling science fiction
eBook of 2002 and is Fictionwise.com's highest rated
science fiction eBook. The novel of an Earth under the
yoke of an alien power where "man is an endangered
species" will be available in multi-language formats
on a number of major eBook sites, including www.cyberread.com,
www.fictionwise.com,
www.mobipocket.com,
www.bn.com, www.palmdigitalmedia.com,
and www.overdrive.com
among others.
Goodwin said that other
L. Ron Hubbard titles in genres ranging from science
fiction and fantasy to mystery and suspense are also
slated for release as eBooks this year. These include
the suspense thriller, Fear; the classic military
survivalist novel, Final Blackout; the parallel
worlds fantasy-adventures, Slaves and Masters of
Sleep; Hubbard's cosmos-voyaging Ole Doc
Methuselah and the virtual reality
swashbuckler, Typewriter in the Sky.
For more information on
the eBooks visit www.cyberread.com
or write to info@galaxypress.com.
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