Summer is here, which means summer weather, summer vacation, and summer reading! We’re launching a new reading incentive program to encourage people to read and hopefully introduce you to some authors you haven’t read before. The basic premise is that for every five books you read you get to choose a free book. To prove that you read the books you’ll be asked to submit and share your book reviews.

Here’s a pretty good description taken from the site:

The Tyndale Summer Reading program is a great opportunity to earn rewards for reading and sharing about the books you read. When you sign up you’ll earn points towards free books when you read books from our summer reading list and share about the books you read in a variety of places including personal blogs, retails sites (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc), and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.

Here’s what your points will get you:

For every five books you read you’ll earn a free book.

The top three point leaders at the end of the summer win $50 gift cards for books.

Everyone with at least one point will be entered to win a free Amazon Kindle.

Plus we’ll introduce more great promotions throughout the summer!

So the more you read the more you get, and I’m guessing you would have read many of these books anyway.

Your kids or teens can get involved too! Visit the main page and click on the link to the Kids/Teen program PDF.

To sign up and see our summer reading lists in fiction, non-fiction and kids/teen visit the site (click here).

Let us know if you have any questions! Or as always visit us on twitter www.twitter.com/tyndalehouse

Enjoy your summer!