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ePubco’s First Read-Aloud…3,489 Titles + Growing… Rapid Audio Books… Pinnacle Book Award Winners

ePubco.com  Debuts Their New Read-Aloud ePub

ePubco.com announces that it will release its first Read-Aloud ePub this month to the Apple iBook Store. The Read-Aloud ePub has a fixed page layout that looks like a book and uses a clickable button to start reading the text on any given page.
The Read-Aloud ePub is designed to work on the Apple iPad and is perfect for Children’s picture books. It allows children to follow along while a realistic voice-over reads to them, making this the perfect learning tool to aid in reading development for young children. Additionally, children’s books formatted in this manner make for great ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) material abroad. As with any iPod/iPad player, you can easily add a pair of headphones for following along while in the doctor’s waiting room, airplane, road trip or other quiet places.

This first release is Sherrill Cannon’s Peter and the Whimper-Whineys. For more information on how you can get your book converted to a Read-Aloud ePub and have it uploaded to Apple’s iBook Store, contact Jeannie@ePubco.com.
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SBPRA is proud to announce it currently has 3,489 active book titles for sale.
Titles are available in hardback, soft cover and as multi-format eBooks, in genres from memoir to mystery, from authors aged ten to eighty-four and everything in between. We continue to grow, bigger and better every day!
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Did You Know… Rapid Audio Books is up and running, providing professional audio book production.
Our experienced team of voice artists will make your book a joy to listen to. Going beyond just production services, RAB helps authors by using one of the most advanced marketing, logistics and distribution networks in existence. We will not only produce your audio book, but distribute and market it. We are a one-stop integrated solution for your audio production and marketing needs. For more information visit http://rapidaudiobooks.com/
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SBPRA Authors Win 2012 NABE Pinnacle Book Awards
This year, Strategic Book Publishing and Rights Agency is proud to congratulate seven authors selected as Winter 2012 winners of the NABE Pinnacle Book Achievement Awards. The SBPRA authors include Nick K. Adams, Gary Caplan, Imelda Cumins-DeMelkon, Stephen Lamoreaux, Kirk Marty, Barbara Prignano and Kenneth Rogers, Jr.. The authors and their work will be featured in the next issue of Book Dealers World, as well as at upcoming book trade show exhibits.

Nick K. Adams won best book in the Juvenile Fiction category for The Uncivil War. This novel brings history to life for two fourth grade rivals who discover that they both had a great-great-great-grandfather present at the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga – but on opposite sides. As the class delves into the past, these two will learn not only about the Civil War, but how to end their own Uncivil War.

Imelda Cumins-DeMelkon was a winner in the Memoir category for The Modern Voice of an Irish Immigrant. What motivates a woman to leave her native land behind and settle in another country? Imelda Cummins-DeMelkon writes a fascinating account of her experiences growing up in Ireland as one of 12 children, and the struggles and challenges that led her to immigrate to the United States.

Stephen Lamoreaux won best book in the Children’s Environmental category for his charming The Little Wave – An Adventure in Earthly Care. This powerful story teaches young and old that abusing our planet does not come without consequences, but even the smallest changes can make a positive difference.

Kirk Marty was a winner for his Sports novel, The Longest Walk. This clever fantasy realizes every baseball fan’s dream: seeing the greatest players of all time play together. A boozy minor league hitting coach bargains to trade his life for that of a terminally ill seven-year-old. But first, the alcoholic coach must win the big game, managing a team of the greatest “dead” Hall of Famers against a powerful squad that’s playing for Death Personified. The Longest Walk is “Damn Yankees,” “Field of Dreams,” and “Rocky” combined!

Barbara Prignano’s Anthony and the Magic Bumblebee won in the Children’s Adventure category. In this delightful book, a little boy named Anthony discovers a bumblebee sprinkling magic dust. Just what is this magic dust? Anthony and the Magic Bumblebee provides a wonderful teaching opportunity to learn all about pollination.

Kenneth Rogers, Jr.’s book Sequence won in the Science Fiction category. This amazing novel deals with a couple trapped inside the Pandora Complex, a phenomena which causes thoughts to travel from one memory to the next next as they are downloaded into the Pandora system. The Sequence questions our reality, while taking the reader on a remarkable journey into the mind.

Gary Caplan, an author represented by SBPRA at Book Expos worldwide, won in the Fantasy category for his The Return of the Ancient Ones.

Strategic Book and Publishing Rights Agency congratulates all of its authors for a job well done. For more on the Pinnacle Achievement Awards, go to: http://tinyurl.com/8yh9xbs