W. F. Howes Ltd

General information

The variety of genre imprints that W. F. Howes offers include:

Clipper - Representing award winners, shortlisted titles and top bestsellers from popular genres.

AVID - An imprint dedicated to genre fitction - specifically supernatural, horror, fantasy and sci-fi.

Jammer - Commerical, mass-market fiction and non-fiction with a contemporary twist.

Jammer Teen - Ideal for engaging teenagers, whether new or voracious readers.

Lamplight - Representing traditional genres such as sagas and mysteries.

Nudged - A world of fun spoken word stories, just for children aged 2 to 12 years. Designed to ignite a lifelong love of reading.

W. F. Howes also offers a range of digital services to libraries, encouraging library borrowers to make the most out of their visits to their libraries with engaging and worthwhile services. These include:

OneClickdigital - One Click digital is a library service for borrowing unabridged e-audiobooks. It is the platform created, hosted and maintained by W F Howes. Once linked to your library website, library members download directly onto their devices giving them 24/7 access, anywhere in the world, to the latest bestsellers and award winners.

Zinio - Zinio is the world's largest newsstand and bookstore. With its many digital products and services, Zinio creates better ways for people to discover published content, get more of it and do more with it. Now available to UK libraries for the first time, exclusively from W F Howes Ltd.

Transparent Language Online - Research-based and experience-driven, Transparent Language Online is a language-learning program for libraries and their users that provides an effective, fun, and engaging experience for language learners of all levels.

Universal Class - W. F. Howes' Universal Class is an educational service providing the highest quality online courses for library users interested in the lifelong pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons. Lifelong learning not only enhances social inclusion, active citizenship and personal development, but also competitiveness and employability. To date, over 300,000 students have benefited from Universal Class state-of-the-art online courses!

Atomic Training - This is an online software learning tool which includes over 40,000 easy to understand online learning videos. There is currently over 150 up to date software applications, including:

Microsoft Word and Excel
Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver
iTunes and iPad
HTML5 and CSS3
Social Media and WordPress
Google Docs and Picasa

Library Press Display - Library PressDisplay is a stand-alone web-based portal designed specifically to meet the needs of libraries and educational institutions. Library PressDisplay has become the media destination of choice in more than 7,000 libraries and educational institutions around the world providing full digital replicas of current-edition newspapers and magazines to students, teachers and researchers.