Pelican Books' New Website is a Pocket Library Accessible from Smartphones and Tablets

Six months after the imprint's re-launch, Pelican is striving to become even more available to that 'vast reading public' with a new website that blurs the line between ebooks and online browsing.

It works like this. You sign up, read a chapter and- if you like the book - buy it for £4.99. It's then available on any internet-connected device, with passages you've highlighted and your reading position saved and synced across them all;