amaBooks: Long Time Coming 'Most Popular Book' on book2look.com

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Long Time Coming 'Most Popular Book' on book2look.com

Long Time Coming: Short Writings from Zimbabwe has risen to become the most popular book on the book2look website, with over 6000 hits, with excellent ratings and comments.

book2look is a website based in Germany that enables visitors to the site to browse through extracts of current books and to buy the books from online bookshops throughout the world. book2look is soon to be distributed in the United Kingdom by The Bookseller Group, which 'amaBooks anticipate will stimulate sales of the books significantly.

Other 'amaBooks titles that are popular on book2look include Bryony Rheam's This September Sun, Christopher Mlalazi's Dancing with Life: Tales from the Township, Intwasa Poetry and Silent Cry: Echoes of Young Zimbabwe Voices.

Julius Chingono and John Eppel's collection of stories and poems, Together, will also appear on book2look in the near future.

1 comment:

ImageNationsMarch 2, 2011 at 1:15 PM
Great. Always happy when African books are making all the positive noises around the world. Congrats to whoever is/are pushing this. Love to you all at amaBooks.
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This September Sun, All Come to Dust and Whatever Happened to Rick Astley?are available in Harare through Bindu Books, 37 Victoria Drive, Newlands (0242 782720 or sales(at)bindu.co.zw) and at Pungwe Projects, 10 Stuart Avenue.

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