BUY BOOKS

For Brits, Pommies, Limeys & other citizens of the UK - and their overseas supporters - there's eBooks-UK. They offer Microsoft Reader (.lit), Mobipocket and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. The site sells many genres of "good quality fiction, & non-fiction" - in the Queen's English of course.
http://www.ebooks-uk.com

Amazon UK e-books In Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader only, available for Windows 98 & above, and for Macintosh OS 9.x ( Mac OS X is not yet supported).
http://www.amazon.co.uk/ebooks/

British Academic e-books So you're a swot? Then wear the cap, but remember it comes only with MS Reader or Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader choice of crest at:
http://www.swotebooks.co.uk/Default.asp

ePenguin Range of Penguin titles in Ms Reader & Adobe Reader formats. http://www.penguin.co.uk/static/packages/uk/epenguin/index.html

Iumix eBookstore Sells e-books from new authors & hosts live discussions with their authors in weekly chat sessions online. Formats are PDF files ( for Adobe Acrobat Reader and Acrobat eBook Reader), & Rocket eBook. http://www.iumix.com/bookstore/book_fr.htm

Kingfisher Books Small range of fiction (especially romantic fiction) & poetry, in Adobe PDF only so far.
http://www.kingfisherbooks.com/

Mushroom Books Historical Fiction & Fantasy predominate. Plenty of formats here -Gemstar REB/Rocket, MS Reader, Adobe PDF, Mobipocket, Palm, hiebook, & also POD print copies. UK site but prices are in US dollars.
http://www.mushroom-ebooks.com/

No Spine.com Strangely-named outfit with an ezine for writers called Jellyfish. However their catalogue is well worth perusing, as are their policies to assist authors. Download titles in PDF, Word, or Plain Text; or buy CD ROMs.
http://www.nospine.com/

Online Originals Launched in January 1997 with 16 titles, this company is one of the e-publishing pioneers. In 1998 one of their titles The Angels of Russia became the first e-book to be nominated for a major literary prize ( the Booker Prize). They publish quality fiction, non-fiction & drama, with a few children's titles. Formats are PDF & Palm. Free 'Braille' titles are also available for visually-impaired readers who use electronic Braille devices or voice synthesis software.
http://www.onlineoriginals.com/

Puff Adder Books A slow to download site is visually rich on arrival. Subtitled "Books that bite", so it's no surprise there are some disturbing titles (e.g. How Elvis Killed JFK). Humour/satire, romance, short stories, children's, SciFi, poetry, mainstream fiction and non-fiction are the major genres. Formats are Adobe PDF downloads, HTML files by email, and print.
http://www.puff-adder.com/

Rabbit Books is the publishing arm of the Writers Cooperative. Dedicated to getting new writers published, they offer full-length fiction in popular genres, while curriculum -based help books for schools are a feature of their non-fiction . They offer electronic downloads plus printed versions.
http://www.rabbitbooks.com/

Skoobe Argyll Publishing Ltd, Scotland, are behind this site, the name of which is of course reversible. Biography, poetry, Scottish literature, history & children's are their particular foci. Adobe PDF & MS Reader are the formats.
http://skoobe.biz/

W.H Smith offer e-books in Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Reader & Palm formats. Sales of their very wide range of genres are in British pounds, not euros.
http://ebooks.whsmith.co.uk

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