Nicholas Sparks releases 'Safe Haven' as first enhanced e-book

Enhanced e-book edition of 'Safe Haven' by Nicholas Sparks

Nicholas Sparks fans have seen seven of of the best-selling author's love stories come to the big screen, from the Ryan Gosling-Rachel McAdams classic tear-jerker The Notebook, to the Amanda Seyfried-Channing Tatum coupling in Dear John.

Before Julianne Hough and Josh Duhamel bring Sparks' 2010 novel Safe Haven to life in theaters this Valentine's Day, Grand Central Publishing is releasing a movie tie-in edition enhanced e-book, the first of its kind from Sparks.

The enhanced e-book features interviews with Sparks, Duhamel and Hough on the making of the film, as well as storyboards, behind-he-scenes footage and seven videos, three exclusive to the e-book edition. The book has also been re-released in movie tie-in paperback and audiobook.

"This gives new readers an opportunity to see how the novel was adapted as they're first reading it, while allowing those returning to Safe Haven to view its world and characters in new and sometimes surprising ways," said Sparks in a statement.

Safe Haven debuted at No. 1 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list on Sept. 23, 2010 and spent 62 weeks in the top 150. Five other Sparks novels debuted at No. 1 - Nights in Rodanthe (2002), The Best of Me (2011), The Choice (2007), The Last Song (2009) and True Believer (2005).

View a trailer of the film below:

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E-book edition of 'Fahrenheit 451' released

By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY

Try to burn this version of Fahrenheit 451.

Publisher Simon & Schuster today releases the first e-book edition of Ray Bradbury's classic 1953 novel set in a future where reading is outlawed and firefighters burn books.

In print, the novel has sold more than 10 million copies, been translated into 33 languages and remains a standard in high school English classes.

A graphic novel version, illustrated by Tim Hamilton, with an introduction by Bradbury, was released in 2009.

Francois Truffaut directed the 1966 movie adaptation, his only English-language film, staring Oskar Werner and Julie Christie.

In announcing the new publishing agreement that covers digital rights, Simon & Schuster's Jonathan Karp called it was a "wonderful opportunity" to bring the novel "to new generation of readers and in new formats."

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