Have YOU Heard About Discover a New Love?

Have you heard about Discover a New Love? It's an online readers club, featuring DRM-free eBooks. Members can join for a 6-month subscription for only $9.99 (that's like $1.67 per eBook). Every month they get a choice among 4 featured selections from various romance subgenres for download. They also get a hefty discount on any other books they want to buy from the website.

Additionally there are great perks—Barbara Vey, romance expert and blogger of Beyond Her Book, will be blogging weekly, and hosting monthly parties and galas, giving members an opportunity to connect with one another and directly with authors.

Things are still new, but we're so excited about where everything is going. And we have A LOT of fun stuff that will be starting in May and throughout the summer…

Starting Tuesday, May 1st, the titles that members can choose from are:

Contemporary

Historical

Paranormal

Surprise

Additionally, we have a couple of new benefits beginning in May, too:

• Save an additional 15% off the member pricing on the purchase of any additional Featured Selections.

     ·         Get an extra 10% off any title by the authors of our Featured Selections.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Sourcebooks Launches Discover a New Love

Online Readers Club Focuses on Connecting Romance Authors & Readers

(Chicago, IL) April 10, 2011—Sourcebooks, one of romance fiction's fastest growing publishers, announces the launch of www.DiscoveraNewLove.com, an online readers club that offers members exclusive, early access to some of the hottest new authors, deep discounts on new and bestselling romance ebooks, and a nonstop party for both readers and authors. 

At the heart of Discover a New Love are monthly ebook selections that offer members the opportunity to download an ebook from one of the major romance subgenres: contemporary, paranormal, and historical (plus a special "wild card" title thrown in for fun).  While many selections will feature sizzling new debuts and rising stars, members will be pleased to find nationally bestselling authors like Georgette Heyer, Grace Burrowes, Catherine Mann, and Carolyn Brown in the monthly mixes.  

"Readers have a hard time figuring out what they should try next.  It's an issue of discovery—finding great new authors with amazing stories," says Deb Werksman, Editorial Manager.  "Now, they can choose their favorite categories, and we'll treat them to something new on a monthly basis, sometimes even before these new books are available to the public."

Membership to Discover a New Love is offered for as little as $1.67 per book and provides access to the monthly selections, "members-only" deals, sneak peeks of forthcoming titles, and author chats. "For what you'd normally pay for one romance, you can now buy two or three," says Leah Hultenschmidt, Sourcebooks Senior Editor. "It's a fabulous way to read your favorite authors and get a chance to try new ones without putting a big dent in the book budget." 

In addition to great ebook deals, each month readers can join Barbara Vey, romance fiction expert and blogger of Beyond Her Book, as well as featured authors, for online parties to celebrate their books and discuss all things romance!

"I'm thrilled to be involved in a venture that brings readers and authors together, because what's more fun than talking about romance with like-minded people?" says Vey, who will be regularly blogging and hosting parties for Discover a New Love. "The only thing better than reading good romance is talking about it with other readers who love it just as much as you do."

A couple of other notes about Discover a New Love:

·         In response to reader demand, many of the featured ebooks will be available on a worldwide basis.

·         The ebooks offered will be DRM free. Sourcebooks wants readers to own the books and for those ebooks to be portable across ereading devices and platforms.

·         Discover a New Love is starting with Sourcebooks titles, and is looking to work with other publishers to make their authors available on this new model.

"Discover a New Love is a new model built directly in response to what we've heard from authors, agents, and readers," says Dominique Raccah, CEO and publisher of Sourcebooks. "Expect a lot of experimentation from us."

DiscoverANewLove.com officially launches at 9:00 a.m. CST officially Tuesday, April 10, in time for the RT Book Lovers Convention in Chicago. The featured titles for the month of April are: One Hot Cowboy Wedding by New York Times bestselling novelist Carolyn Brown, Lady Maggie's Secret Scandal by New York Times bestselling novelist Grace Burrowes (released one month early to members), Tempted by Elisabeth Naughton, and Mariana by New York Times bestselling novelist Susanna Kearsley.

For more information about Sourcebooks, its authors, and new initiatives, visit www.sourcebooks.com.

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ABOUT SOURCEBOOKS:

Sourcebooks is a forward-thinking, independent publishing house with a passion for books and a dedication to the belief that books change lives. We are committed to innovative publishing, where every book is personal and every author's voice has a place. We are a group of passionate, energetic, and enthusiastic book lovers, and we are committed to helping readers experience each book. Sourcebooks has more than 70 employees, publishes more than 300 new titles each year, and celebrates its success with 18 New York Times bestsellers, including Carolyn Brown, Grace Burrowes, Georgette Heyer, Susanna Kearsley, Jill Mansell, and Terry Spear. Please check out the Sourcebooks blog and follow us on Twitter.