Screaming Dreams has started to release Kindle editions of some of its books. Not all of the existing print titles will be released for Kindle through Screaming Dreams because of contracts some authors have signed with other publishers. But, whenever possible, Screaming Dreams will now release both print and Kindle versions of past and future book titles.

The first three Kindle books are now available to purchase from Amazon, for only $2.99 each… The Midnight Hour by Neil Davies, Songs from Spider Street by Mark Howard Jones and Yuppieville by Tony Richards. You can find them on Amazon at the following locations…

Yuppieville: Amazon US and Amazon UK

Spider Street:  Amazon US and Amazon UK

The Midnight Hour: Amazon US and Amazon UK

SFScope reports that a number of Octavia E. Butler‘s acclaimed and award-winning SF novels will be published in electronic format for the first time by Open Road Integrated Media. These include the Nebula Award-winning Parable of the Talents and the Xenogenesis trilogy.

Butler, who died in 2006, was the first African-American woman to come to prominence as a SF writer, dealing in her writings with issues such as race, religion, gender and social structure.

Read the full story HERE

A new imprint, Prologue Books, has acquired more than 250 out-of-print novels from the 1940s to the 1970s which they are re-issuing as ebooks. They include crime, science fiction and fantasy novels written by authors such as William Campbell Gault, Vin Packer, Robert Colby and Richard Deming.

Ben LeRoy, publisher of Tyrus Books, who is spearheading the project says: “I envision Prologue Books not simply an e-book publisher for out-of-print titles, but as a living record of the crime, science fiction, and fantasy genres. There’s a great opportunity to shine the spotlight on authors who may have been significantly influential on the current state of publishing, but who have never really received their due for one reason or another.”

See the catalogue HERE

Publishers Weekly reports the launch of a new horror/mystery/thriller ebook imprint, Ravenous Shadows, with John Skipp as editorial director.

The four launch titles are “an Ira Levin-style mystery (House of Quiet Madness by Mikita Brottman), an ultra-violent 80s-style Italian cannibal horror (Tribesmen by Adam Cesare), a Hitchcockian take on a modern suicide cult (The Devoted by Eric Shapiro), and a sexual abuse/revenge story (Die, You Bastard! Die! By Jan Kozlowski).

The aim is to publish 30-40 titles per year. Other titles soon to be published include The Dark, a metaphysical thriller by Scott Bradley and Peter Giglio, and Unwanted, a supernatural story set in both pre- and post-Katrina New Orleans by R.J. Sevin.”

Read the full story HERE

Cemetery Dance have announced an exciting new membership plan that will allow you to read ANY ebook they publish in 2012, along with all of the ebooks they’ve already published, for a small one-time fee.

They state:
“In the six months since we launched our ebook store, we’ve published books by William Peter Blatty, Peter Straub, Jay Bonansinga, Norman Partridge, Glen Hirshberg, Brian Hodge, Brian Keene, Mick Garris, Rick Hautala, Ronald Kelly, Simon Clark, Ed Gorman, Geoff Cooper, Brian James Freeman, James A. Moore, Rocky Wood, Kirby McCauley, and many others.

There are nearly 40 ebooks you can download right away with a combined retail value of more than $130, plus we have dozens of new ebooks in the works for 2012, including some exciting originals and also reprints of classic out of print horror novels you haven’t read in years.

Our ebooks range in price from $0.99 to $9.99, but the cost of this membership is just a one-time fee of $49, which breaks down to $4.08 per month. If you think you’d want to download even a couple of ebooks each month, this is a great deal!

Because we hope you still love print editions as much as we do, members will also receive a FREE signed Limited Edition hardcover later this year. All you’ll have to pay is any applicable shipping. Considering the retail value of $30 to $40 for the free book, the low purchase price of this membership is an EVEN BETTER deal with this special bonus!”

Full details of the membership plan can be found HERE

“Rebellion Publishing is proud to announce the opening of its brand new digital store – giving you the pick of the freshest genre writing available at the click of a button.

Everything from SF to horror and fantasy to urban fantasy will be available direct from our Solaris and Abaddon Books imprints for the first time, and in both ePub and mobi formats – perfect for anyone with a Kindle or eReader.

You can visit the new store HERE

The ideal one-stop shop for the 21st century reader, the Rebellion Publishing store offers digital downloads for all our titles with competitive prices, special sales and promotional offers – it’s the perfect place to stock up with winter warmers for the festive season.

Offering Steampunk, SF, fantasy, urban fantasy and horror, the site is easily navigable and each book is categorised in multiple ways. Alternatively, in search of a new read with a strong female lead? Or maybe a good anti-hero? Find what you want quickly with our ‘popular themes’ sections.

And to kick off, not only is there 10% off of all ebooks but, inspired by the lingering chill of Hallowe’en, for this week only all the novels in our Tomes of the Dead zombie series and the Infernal Game series are just £2 each!”

“Untreed Reads is proud to present Space: 1889 and Beyond, a brand-new series of e-books based on the award-winning steampunk role-playing game created by Frank Chadwick. The tales take place in a universe in which Victorian science has breached the barrier of Earth’s atmosphere and is spreading out among the stars.

The year is 1889, and man is in space!

Enter the fantastical world of Space: 1889 and Beyond in this exciting first series, wherein we’re introduced to our heroes; ‘Professor’ Nathanial Stone and his ward, Miss Annabelle Somerset. Join them as they travel the inner planets, encountering giant ants, lizard-men, ghosts, crazed scientists and, of course, Martians! Adventure is never far away when you live in 1889 …

Published by Untreed Reads, the first six-book series runs until the end of December 2011. Book one (Journey to the Heart of Luna, by range editor, Andy Frankham-Allen) and book two (Vandals on Venus by popular steampunk scribe, K.G. McAbee) are already available, with book three (The Ghosts of Mercury by best-selling Doctor Who author, Mark Michalowski) due this Halloween. Series two begins February 2012.”

“Gollancz, the SF and Fantasy imprint of the Orion Publishing Group, announces the launch of the world’s largest digital SFF library, the SF Gateway, which aims to make thousands of out-of-print titles by classic genre authors available as eBooks.

Building on the remarkable success of Gollancz’s Masterworks series, the SF Gateway has launched with more than a thousand titles by close to a hundred authors. It will build to 3,000 titles by the end of 2012, and 5,000 or more by 2014. Wherever possible, the SF Gateway will offer the complete backlist of the authors included.

The Gateway site is designed to act as a major community hub and social network for SF readers across the world, allowing them to interact with each other and recommend titles and authors. The site will include forums, blogs, regular promotions, and is envisaged to become the natural home on the net for anyone with an interest in classic SFF.

Authors featured in the launch include such names as Marion Zimmer Bradley, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Alice B. Sheldon (James Tiptree, Jr), Robert Silverberg, Kate Wilhelm and Connie Willis.”

For more information, please go to the SF gateway HERE