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Some great news! The second(ish) iPhone app (after the first Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy apps) embedding the reader from Eucalyptus is now out worldwide, with the exception of the USA.

The app contains Dead Tomorrow, Peter James' Sunday Times bestseller from his Roy Grace series of detective novels, also released in paperback and audio forms last week. It's rapidly climbing paperback bestseller charts as I write. The app is £4.99, €5.99, or your local iTunes equivalent, and with it you can also purchase and read the other four books in the Roy Grace series. If you're unfamiliar, ...

Eucalyptus v1.2.1 is now available via the App Store. As the tacked-on '.1' suggests, it's just a few bug fixes and small enhancements - but we still heartiy recommend updating. Things you might notice are:

• A fix for an occasional (but very annoying when it did happen - sorry!) crash when using "Send Feedback". This is the feature that's accessible via the Eucalyptus leaf icon in the bottom left of book view. You can now send feedback (or Reader Pick suggestions) via here without fear of it not getting through.
• More reliable fast saving and restore of the ...

It’s October, and we’re looking for your favorite scary books. From the mildly morose to the positively petrifying, there’s lots to choose from with Eucalyptus, and we want to present the best as Halloween Picks in the app.

What do you think your fellow readers should be sinking their teeth into this Halloween? Whether well known, or more esoteric, promote your Pick as a public comment below, or send it to picks@eucalyptusapp.com. We'll be featuring the best in Eucalyptus over the Halloween weekend.

Up to about 55 words fits on a Reader Pick card in Eucalyptus, so around ...

We're pleased to see that Apple has selected Eucalyptus to be one of the apps installed on the iPhone in their latest TV commercials. We think it's in great company.

Sharp-eyed viewers will see the icon in the Dine and Nature ads, as the finger reaches to launch other apps.

Some very exciting news! In conjunction with the publishers Pan Macmillan and Missing Ink Studios, the first book apps embedding the reader from Eucalyptus are now on sale! They're available worldwide, except in the USA and Canada.

If you're a fan - and probably even if you're not - you'll have worked out from this blog post's title what books I'm talking about: all the books in Douglas Adams' seminal Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy, reissued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first book's publication.

There are five apps available - one for each book in the ...