The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa is Jacques Steenkamp’s riveting report of what happened on that fateful day and what went on beyond the courtroom walls.

Written by one of South Africa’s foremost crime reporters, who spent more than a year investigating and reporting on the case, this book contains eight pages of photographs and interviews with all the roleplayers – including the investigating officers on the case, the forensic and ballistic experts, and family and friends of the deceased.

The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa is now available as ebook, while the paperback – along with the Afrikaans edition Die Griekwastad-Moorde: Die misdaad wat Suid-Afrika geruk het – will be published later this month. You can pre-order the paperback on the Random House Struik website for a discounted price of R200.

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• The Griekwastad Murders: The Crime that Shook South Africa by Jacques Steenkamp
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Two Random House Struik imprints have just launched eBook library apps for the iPad. The apps, Earth & Nature (Struik Nature) and South Africa in Print (Zebra Press), will house a wide selection of natural history and current events eBooks at discounted prices.

 
Titles available at the initial launch include Guide to Night Skies of Southern Africa, Basic Bird ID in Southern Africa, Filmer’s Spiders, Winnie Mandela: A Life, Herschelle Gibbs’ biography To the Point and eBook bestseller 32 Battalion.

Additional titles will be added to the libraries on an ongoing basis and will immediately be available for purchase when the customer next opens the app.

The Apple iBookstore is currently not available in South Africa, but South Africans can purchase apps from iTunes. These library applications enable local and international iPad users to purchase South African eBooks. The apps can be downloaded for free from iTunes and customers can then purchase eBooks seamlessly from within the app.

The apps can be downloaded from here iTunes: Earth and Nature and South Africa in Print.

Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s leading publishing house and offers readers the best of both local and international titles. It promotes books written in both English and Afrikaans through its many diverse and highly respected imprints, which include the Struik Lifestyle, Struik Nature, Struik Travel & Heritage, Zebra Press, Umuzi, eKhaya and Fernwood Press imprints.

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• Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anne Marie du Preez Bezdrob
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• To the Point: The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography by Herschelle Gibbs, Steve Smith
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• 32 Battalion by Piet Nortje
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Random House Struik is die eerste hoofstroomuitgewer wat Afrikaanse e-boeke vir die Kindle, Amazon se e-leestoestel, aanbied. Hierdie e-boeke, wat wêreldwyd in Amazon se Kindle-winkels gevind kan word, sluit onder meer in Dwars deur Max du Preez, Steve Hofmeyr se Vier briewe vir Jan Ellis en Mense van my asem en EKM Dido se Emma en Nella en ‘n Ander ek.

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Random House Struik to make Afrikaans e-books available via Amazon Kindle

Random House Struik has become the first mainstream publisher to release Afrikaans e-books on Kindle, Amazon’s revolutionary wireless reading device that lets you download books, magazines, newspapers, blogs, and personal documents to a crisp, high-resolution Pearl E Ink display that is easy to read in bright sunlight without glare. The initial selection, published by imprints Umuzi and Zebra Press, includes popular titles such as Dwars: Mymeringe van ‘n gebleikte Afrikaan by Max du Preez, Steve Hofmeyr’s Vier briewe vir Jan Ellis and Mense van my asem, as well as Emma en Nella and ‘n Ander ek by EKM Dido. These e-books can be found through worldwide Amazon Kindle Stores.

“We have seen a healthy appetite for our e-books both in South Africa and internationally and are very excited to be able to make both our English and Afrikaans authors’ titles available with major international, e-book retailers such as Amazon,” said Digital Director Mark Seabrook.
“We are delighted to launch this initial range of Afrikaans titles in e-book format and thereby provide our Afrikaans authors with an international platform,” Seabrook added.

Random House Struik (Pty) Ltd is South Africa’s leading publishing house and offers readers the best of both local and international titles.
It promotes books written in both English and Afrikaans through its many diverse and highly respected imprints, which include the Struik Lifestyle, Struik Nature, Struik Travel & Heritage, Zebra Press, Umuzi and Fernwood Press imprints.

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• Dwars: Mymeringe van ’n Bleek Boorling deur Max du Preez
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• Vier briewe vir Jan Ellis deur Steve Hofmeyr
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• Mense van my asem deur Steve Hofmeyr
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• Emma en Nella deur E KM Dido
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  EAN: 9781415201206
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• ‘n Ander ek deur EKM Dido
  EAN: 9781415200346
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Zebra Press, an imprint of Random House Struik, is excited to announce its entry into digital publishing with the release of its first selection of e-books, making leading South African authors available digitally for the first time. The initial selection includes popular titles such as To the Point by Herschelle Gibbs with Steve Smith, Steeped in Blood by David Klatzow with Sylvia Walker, and Mense van my asem by Steve Hofmeyr.

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These e-books can be found through Amazon via their Kindle Store, on the recently relaunched Exclusive Books website, and through a wide selection of international e-book retailers, including BooksOnBoard (US), WH Smith (UK) and Waterstones (UK).

“We have an aggressive e-book publishing program in place and will be rolling out the majority of our frontlist and selected backlist titles in e-book format during 2011, while continuing to bring on more retail partners. The level of e-book interest in the South African market over the last six months has been very encouraging and we are looking forward to additional e-reading devices and the availability of more local titles,” said Digital Director Mark Seabrook.

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“We are delighted to have launched our key frontlist titles in e-book format in time for the Christmas market, and equally delighted by our first e-book sales. We look forward to the majority of our titles being available early in 2011 and thereby introducing our wonderful South African authors to an international audience,” said Zebra Press Publisher Marlene Fryer.

According to Forrester, a well-known worldwide analyst firm, e-book sales will reach $1 billion by the end of the year and the market will triple in the next five years, reaching $3 billion in 2015. The market is mainly led by US consumers, but the international markets, including South Africa, are embracing the e-book trend very quickly.

Not quite ready for “e” – ? Buy these books in their softcover editions:

• To the Point: The No-Holds-Barred Autobiography by Herschelle Gibbs, Steve Smith
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• Mense van my asem by Steve Hofmeyr
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• Steeped in Blood: The Life and Times of a Forensic Scientist by David Klatzow, Sylvia Walker
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