Sony Reader Store Launches Virtual Book Club

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Today Sony Reader Store has announced the launch of its inaugural virtual Book Club, the 'Sony Readers Book Club.' Each month, Sony Reader Store will select a book of the month. During each month, Reader Store will host a virtual Book Club meeting, an online chat with the author, on the Sony Reader Store Facebook and Twitter pages, giving participants the opportunity to interact with the author and each other and ask questions related to the book. The Sony Readers Book Club will also offer special discounts and book club extras for download, available to U.S. customers at Reader Store.

The selections for the first four books of the month are:

    November:          Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini
                       Taylor

                       Master storyteller and National
                       Book Award Finalist Laini Taylor
                       pulls readers into an amazing,
                       multi-layered world in Daughter
                       of Smoke & Bone. Seventeen-
                       year-old Karou leads two lives:
                       one in the tangled streets of
                       Prague, as a talented and
                       mysterious art student; the
                       other in a clandestine workshop
                       overflowing with jars of teeth,
                       run by the ram-horned magician
                       and monstrous Brimstone, who is
                       the closest thing to family
                       Karou has ever known. Even to
                       herself, Karou is a mystery.
                       She doesn't know where she came
                       from, or if she's entirely
                       human. The next book in the
                       series, Days of Blood &
                       Starlight, will be published
                       November 6.

    December/January:  Flight Behavior by Barbara
                       Kingsolver

                       Barbara Kingsolveris the author
                       of eight works of fiction,
                       including the novels The Lacuna,
                       The Poisonwood Bible, Animal
                       Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as
                       well as books of poetry, essays,
                       and creative nonfiction. Set in
                       the present year in the rural
                       community of Feathertown,
                       Tennessee, Flight Behavior tells
                       the story of Dellarobia Turnbow,
                       a petite, razor-sharp 29-year
                       old who nurtured worldly
                       ambitions before becoming
                       pregnant and marrying at
                       seventeen. Now, after more than
                       a decade of tending small
                       children on a failing farm,
                       oppressed by poverty, isolation,
                       and her husband's antagonistic
                       family, she has mitigated her
                       boredom by surrendering to an
                       obsessive flirtation with a
                       handsome younger man.

    February:         The Black Box by Michael Connelly


                       Michael Connelly is the
                       bestselling author of detective
                       novels and other crime fiction,
                       notably those featuring LAPD
                       Detective Harry Bosch and
                       criminal defense attorney Mickey
                       Haller. The Black Box tells the
                       story of a case that spans 20
                       years, when Harry Bosch links
                       the bullet from a recent crime
                       to a file from 1992, the killing
                       of a young female photographer
                       during the L.A. riots. Now
                       Bosch's ballistics match
                       indicates that her death was not
                       random violence, but something
                       more personal, and connected to
                       a deeper intrigue. Like an
                       investigator combing through the
                       wreckage after a plane crash,
                       Bosch searches for the "black
                       box," the one piece of evidence
                       that will pull the case
                       together.

    March:             When It Happens To You by Molly
                       Ringwald

                       Molly Ringwald began her film
                       career at the age of thirteen with
                       her Golden Globe nominated
                       performance in The Tempest. Her
                       extensive film credits include The
                       Pick-Up Artist, For Keeps, Fresh
                       Horses, Betsy's Wedding, Billy Bob
                       Thornton's short film Some People
                       Call It a Sling Blade, Jean-Luc
                       Goddard's King Lear, and the now
                       iconic coming-of-age movies
                       Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles,
                       and The Breakfast Club. In this
                       compulsively readable collection
                       of interlinked stories, When It
                       Happens to You explores the
                       numerous betrayals, big and small,
                       that one grapples with across a
                       lifetime.

Additionally, customers can enter via the Sony Electronics Blog to be selected as one of 25 VIP members of the Sony Readers Book Club. The VIP members will each receive a Sony Reader device and cover with light, as well as the first four book-of-the-month eBooks for free. In February, the 25 VIP members will be invited to an in-person book club and meet-and-greet with author Michael Connelly in Los Angeles. The VIPs will receive airfare, hotel, transportation and meals for the duration of the weekend.

"We're excited that together with Hachette Book Group and HarperCollins Publishers we are able to bring these esteemed authors to our readership," said Natascha Helbig, Director of Sony Reader Store. "The Sony Readers Book Club will not only offer book lovers unique access to a diverse set of some of our most popular authors but also a community where they can share their passion for books with other avid readers."

For more information on the Sony Readers Book Club, including eBook titles and authors, chat schedules and VIP member submission information, please visit blog.sony.com/sonyreadersbookclub.

Sony Reader Store helps book lovers discover their next story, from sweep-you-off-your feet romances to hard-boiled blockbusters, on Reader from Sony, PC, Mac and Android devices. Read anywhere at any time with thousands of eBooks and periodicals. For more information please visit readerstore.sony.com.

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