Random House's new ebook imprint, AtRandom, has released its first titles. According to AtRandom's website, these titles will eventually be available as trade paperbacks.

Mistress Ruby Ties It Together
by Robin Shamburg
$9.95
Rocket & Glassbook editions

"Equal parts memoir, how-to and social satire, Mistress Ruby Ties it Together is a guided tour through New York's S&M underworld, where the author worked as a professional dominatrix to subsidize her writing career. As Mistress Ruby, this former Catholic school girl took confessions from some of the country's most powerful men. Within the sanctity of the dungeon, they revealed to her their darkest lusts, fears and frailties as well as their sincere desire to connect with the opposite sex. Each of these provocative essays provides an insider's view of human deviation; together, they present a startling portrait of our everyday selves." (from AtRandom Website)

Because She Is Beautiful
by Cameron Dougan
$9.95
Rocket & Glassbook editions

"As the daughter of a career marine, Kim Reilly never imagined she would grow up to become the mistress of a married millionaire. Robert Sanders-sophisticated and refined-teaches her how to act like a member of his glitzy Upper East Side New York social set. Yet she remains an outsider. The luxuries and destructive dramas that comprise Kim's life are revealed as poor substitutes for a void she cannot understand, and in a courageous gesture of liberation, she travels to Paris. There she begins to see herself, and life, through new eyes." (from AtRandom Website)

Radical Sanity: Commonsense Advice for Uncommon People
by Elizabeth Wurtzel
$9.95
Rocket & Glassbook editions

"Miss Wurtzel is back, and this time she's armed with advice for the modern woman. She's found the secret of life, and it's within everyone's reach. It's about enjoying your mistakes. It's about being strong. It's about eating dessert. It's about having opinions. It's about adoring feminism. It's about embracing fanaticism. It's also about saying your prayers, not overpacking, and making your boyfriend do the dishes.

Some of her words of wisdom: - Think Productively: It's not that you have to see it to believe it; on the contrary, you have to believe it to see it. - Be Gorgeous: I myself believe that I am about ten times prettier than I actually am. By dint of sheer will power, I have managed to convince many people of this. - Enjoy Your Single Years: Do not think that the whole point of being single is being married; men don't think this way, and neither should you.

In Radical Sanity, these lessons, and many more, are delivered with the sharp wit and candor we've come to expect -- and love -- from Elizabeth Wurtzel." (from AtRandom Website)

Men Seeking Women: Love and Sex On-line
by Po Bronson, Richard Dooling, Eric Garcia, Paul Hond, Gary Krist, David Liss, Chris Offutt, Alexander Parsons, Robert Anthony Siegel, Bruce Sterling
$9.95
Rocket & Glassbook editions

"Men Seeking Women: Love and Sex On-line is an exciting and original collection of new short fiction by men about men seeking women, and women seeking men in the digital age. The Internet revolution has altered the look of the traditional relationship. Through e-mail correspondence, chat room chats, and message board postings, the manner in which we meet and mate has drastically changed. While the search for love is a timeless one, how and where we look has never been more a sign of the digital times. Here, ten talented storytellers offer thoroughly contemporary portraits of relationships in the world of new media and high technology in chat rooms, porn sites and other on-line realms. Men Seeking Women is a fresh and unconventional look at the cyber-landscape of love, sex, and companionship." (from AtRandom Website)

Lost in Mongolia: Travels in Hollywood and Other Foreign Lands
by Tad Friend
$9.95
Rocket & Glassbook editions

"In Lost in Mongolia; a collection of Tad Friend's most original, witty, and wide-ranging articles and essays from The New Yorker, Esquire, and Outside; we are taken on a cultural tour of global proportions. Friend reports from the entertainment mecca of Hollywood on topics that range from the life and death of River Phoenix, to the widespread plagiarism of movie ideas, to why celebrity profiles are always dreadful. He critiques the larger American culture with articles such as "White Trash Nation," "In Praise of Middlebrow," and a brief rumination on what it means when your girlfriend steals and wears your favorite shirt. Readers will also journey to foreign lands and American outposts, as Friend goes on the trail of the Marcos Dynasty in the Philippines, is harassed in Morocco, and digs up buried treasure in Sun Valley." (from AtRandom Website)

Bypassing traditional publishers, Frederick Forsyth is creating a series of five ebook-only short stories published by London-based Online Originals. So far, three of the expected five stories have been published:

The Veteran
by Frederick Forsyth
$2.99
Glassbook, PDF & Microsoft editions

"In a miserable crime-infested housing estate of north-east London, a solitary walker is mugged and kicked so brutally that he is taken away in a coma. The case falls to Detective Inspector Jack Burns. With the help of one eye-witness prepared to testify, Burns tracks down two known thugs with a history of violence. Piece by piece, strand by strand, the old-fashioned copper builds the case against them, until he is given the go-ahead by the Crown Prosecution Service. Helpless, he watches as his case is torn apart by a brilliant barrister who has amazingly taken the case for peanuts. Only on the last page does the honest policeman learn the chilling reason behind it all. A twist to take your breath away." (from Online Original Website)

The Miracle
by Frederick Forsyth
$2.99
Glassbook, PDF & Microsoft editions

"A wealthy American tourist hurries through the mediaeval alleys of Siena, Tuscany, late for the spectacle of the famous Palio horse-race. His wife stumbles, falls and twists an ankle. In an adjacent courtyard a soft-spoken stranger helps bandage the foot and tells the tourists a weird, compelling tale of the miraculous things that happened in that very courtyard in years gone by. Mesmerised, the American cannot tear himself away. The Palio race takes place beyond the ancient roofs as he listens and asks for more. Who was Caterina of Mercy? Who is the quiet stranger? In the last line, all is answered. Forsyth at his ingenious best." (from Online Original Website)

The Citizen
by Frederick Forsyth
$2.99
Glassbook, PDF & Microsoft editions

"At take-off, Speedbird One Zero seemed a pretty straightforward night flight from Bangkok to London. But when the dinner trays were cleared and the lights dimmed it became clear that something strange was going on. A muttered meeting in the half-darkness, a note to the captain from an anonymous nosey-parker and the skipper had little choice but to alert London. When One Zero landed, the Customs were waiting. In force. But a twist reveals a much more cunning plan. And a Customs Chief with an ace of his own." (from Online Original Website)

The Art of the Matter and Whispering Winds, the final two titles in Forsyth's quintet, are due out within the next few months.

Elmore Leonard, author of Rum Punch and Get Shorty, is also bypassing traditional publishers with the publication of Fire in the Hole by Contentville Press.

Fire in the Hole: A Novella
by Elmore Leonard
$5.60
Microsoft format

"Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, now brings his unmistakable style to electronic-publishing. In Leonard's first original e-book, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens (featured in Pronto and Riding the Rap) returns to the Eastern Kentucky coal-mining country of his youth. When Boyd Crowder, a mail-order-ordained minister who doesn't believe in paying his income taxes, decides to blow up the IRS building in Cincinnati, Givens is asked by the local marshal to intervene. This sets up an inevitable confrontation between two men on opposite sides of the law who still have a lingering respect for each other. Throw into the mix Boyd's sister-in-law, Ava, who carries a torch for Raylen along with a deer rifle, and you've got a funny, adrenaline-charged novella only Leonard could have written."

Mightwords.com is a distributor of e-content with over 4,00 titles available as PDF-based editions. The bulk of their collection falls within the categories of business & economics, computers, fiction, technology and health & fitness and tend to be under 100 pages long. Some titles are published by small epublishing houses, including Mightywords, and other are published by the authors themselves. Examples titles from their catalogue include:

The Last Precinct: A Philosophy
by Patricia Cornwell
$3.00
Published by the author
12 pages

" Join best-selling novelist Patricia Cornwell on her eloquent journey to The Last Precinct, the core of our being, the essence of who we are and who we are not. Driven by her familiarity with the morgue and its inhabitants, victims of violence, and tragic deaths, Cornwell has developed a personal code of ethics by working through all the layers of fear, whether of dying or living, that we all have to conquer to be fully alive and true to ourselves." (from Mightywords Website)

Bobby Valentine On What It Takes to Build A Winning Team
by Bobby Valentine
$3.95
Published by Mightywords
15 pages

"Credited as the toughest, the best, and the most controversial manager in the history of baseball, New York Mets' Bobby Valentine for the first time ever shares his years of experience in turning teams around including the Texas Rangers, Chiba Litta Marines in Japan, and of course, the New York Mets. Through hard lessons learned, Mr. Valentine translates his winning teamwork philosophy into practical business application and shows business people how they can lead any team to victory." (from Mightywords Website)

Up Simba
by David Foster Wallace
$4.95
Published by iPublish.com
109 pages

"In February 2000, Rolling Stone magazine sent David Foster Wallace, "NOT A POLITICAL JOURNALIST," on the road for a week with Senator John McCain's campaign to win the Republican nomination for the Presidency. They wanted to know why McCain appealed so much to so many Americans, and particularly why he appealed to the "Young Voters" of America who generally show nothing but apathy. iPublish is bringing out the "Director's Cut" (3Xlonger than the RS article) of this incisive, funny, thoughtful piece about life on "Bullshit One" (the nickname for the press bus that followed McCain's Straight Talk Express. McCain may be out of the race, but as we gear up for the showdown in November, this piece is more relevant than ever in its discussion of what we know, don't know, and don't want to know about the way our political campaigns work." (from Mightwords Website)