The 50 year old publisher, famous for its car manuals and now offering a wide list of non-fiction, enthusiasts’ titles, has become one of the first UK publishers to publish its eBooks independently.
The first titles, which include TV sports commentator Steve Rider’s My Chequered Career (published in hard copy on 4 October), are available from a new standalone website, accessible via Haynes’ UK homepage.
Titles are available to download to web-enabled iPads, Sony e-readers, Galaxy and other Android devices.
Other eBook titles from Haynes’ current list include Bernie Ecclestone’s biography Bernie; Tiff Gear, the story of former Top Gear and Fifth Gear presenter Tiff Needell; the ever-popular Memories of Senna and the colourful, personal accounts of RAF personnel serving in Afghanistan Blue Sky Warriors.
Jeremy Yates-Round, managing director, Haynes Publishing said: “We’re very excited to be making some of our most popular titles available as eBooks and we’re particularly proud to be doing so independently. Haynes has developed both the product and delivery system through our HaynesPRO division using entirely in-house resources so that we can offer our best-loved titles electronically at competitive prices.
“Thanks to the strength of the Haynes brand and our loyal customers, we are pioneering the way to deliver digital content via our own platform. Other independent publishers have already shown interest in our approach and new capabilities and we are confident this is a significant move forward for the publishing industry which will benefit customers by bringing more competition into online book delivery.
“At Haynes we are now able to produce products not only in an ePub format which can be delivered to desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones, we have also produced cutting edge interactive electronic versions of our Haynes Manuals which incorporate video, audio, interactive hyperlinks, predictive text search capabilities and many other functions including Dictionary and Conversion calculators.”
Haynes eBooks can be bought and downloaded via www.haynes.co.uk
