Five Star Publications Launches eBookery

Posted on January 3, 2001

eBookery.com, an electronic bookstore division of Five Star Publications, Inc., has opened its doors with six new titles that readers can purchase and download. eBookery's titles are priced from $5.99 to $12.95 each. All are created in PDF which can be viewed with Adobe Acrobat Reader. Five Star Publications, an Arizona-based company, has been in business for more than sixteen years.

"I'm convinced books made of paper will be around forever," says Linda F. Radke, president of Five Star Publications, "but the convenience and economy of ebooks is undeniable. In ebooks, readers are able to search for words and phrases, bookmark pages, and add their own notes, she explained. And those are things you simply cannot, or should not, do with printed books."

On eBookery's list of titles is Light in the Darkness by St. George Lee, M.D., a personal story of recovery from sex addiction; The Glass Cocoon by Serena F. Holder and Christopher J. Jarmick, a cyber thriller about the perils of Internet chatrooms; Keys to the Asylum by Daniel K. Bloomfield, the story of a struggle to secure the future of the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign; and Radke's own book, Promote Like a Pro, a guide to marketing your own book.

"More titles are already in the works," Radke said. Five more eBookery selections are expected to be announced next month.

Authors and publishers with books they'd like eBookery to produce and market are invited to submit their works online. "I do want people to be aware, however, that we are going to be selective," Radke emphasized. "We are interested only in works of quality, whether fiction or non-fiction, for adult audiences or younger readers."