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Pay to play: Would you pay to browse for books?

Susan Lulgjuraj — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:00:56 +0000

Would you pay to browse a bookstore’s shelves? Victoria Barnsley, CEO of HarperCollins UK & International, discussed that concept during a recent interview on BBC’s The Bottom Line with Evan Davis. “In America, certain shoe shops are charging to try on shoes. These people just go in, try them on and go and order them online,” [...]

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HarperCollins Christian Publishing Joins the Espresso Book Machine Network

Dan Eldridge — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 22:12:03 +0000

As an unabashed vending machine fanatic and someone who’s been involved with the publishing industry for the better part of my adult life, I’ve long been intrigued by the Espresso Book Machine, owned by On Demand Books. There are currently more than seven million titles available in On Demand Books’ digital network, and on January 30, [...]

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Johnny Depp Starts New Literary Imprint at Harper

Aggregated Content — Fri, 19 Oct 2012 01:37:57 +0000

Having hacked his way through adversaries playing screen roles like Captain Jack Sparrow and Sweeney Todd, Johnny Depp will now be slicing into manuscripts (ideally with a red pen, and not with a cutlass or a razor blade) as he starts his own literary imprint. The Harper imprint of HarperCollins Publishers said on Tuesday that it [...]

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What does the News Corp split mean for HarperCollins?

Chris Meadows — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:15:00 +0000

Under pressure from News Corp’s upper management, Rupert Murdoch has lately agreed to divide News Corp up into two corporations—one that contains the corporation’s entertainment assets, and the other to contain its newspaper and publishing assets—including “Big Six”/”Agency Five” publisher HarperCollins. Murdoch will remain in charge of both new companies. Attempting to put the best [...]

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HarperCollins takes aim at teenagers with Epic Reads

Chris Meadows — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 15:52:18 +0000

HarperCollins recently announced a program to make all English-language e-book titles available around the world (and it’s about time, too!), but that’s not the only new initiative it’s launched lately. Another one is called “Epic Reads”, and is a digital community site aimed at getting teenagers connected with HarperTeen authors and books. Apart from the [...]

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RIP Jean C. George, 92

Chris Meadows — Fri, 18 May 2012 04:10:07 +0000

Galleycat reports that children’s author Jean C. George has passed away at the age of 92. George is best known for her books Julie of the Wolves and My Side of the Mountain, the latter of which was one of the mainstays of my childhood reading. I will forever regret never having the chance to [...]

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Paulo Coelho talks HarperCollins into 99-cent sale on his e-books

Chris Meadows — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:27:16 +0000

Best-selling author Paulo Coelho blogs that he has managed to talk publisher HarperCollins into offering ten of his eleven novels for 99 cents each. (The single exception is his best-known work, The Alchemist.) The promotion is valid for the USA and Canada only (though he is in talks with his Spanish and Portugese publishers to [...]

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Judge stays price-fixing class-action suit against Hachette, HarperCollins

Chris Meadows — Thu, 03 May 2012 08:13:08 +0000

PaidContent reports that a judge has stayed an e-book price-fixing class-action case against publishers Hachette and HarperCollins on the grounds that the publishers are close to settling with state governments over the matter, and the states’ lawsuits trump the class action. Apart from Macmillan and Penguin, who are fighting the suit, Simon & Schuster wasn’t [...]

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The other Amazon-publisher disagreement: print on demand

Chris Meadows — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:02:03 +0000

Everyone is paying attention to the e-book pricing fight against Amazon right now, but Bloomberg Businessweek reports there’s another disagreement going on between Amazon and the publishers behind the scenes that nobody has really noticed: the question of print on demand. Amazon already offers its own print on demand services, used for mainly for small [...]

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Publishing industry stalked by ‘creative destruction’

Chris Meadows — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:39:48 +0000

Former publishing-industry executive and subsequent business-sales-focused lawyer Martin Levin has a very interesting post on Publishing Perspectives looking at the economic theory of “creative destruction” and what it might mean for the publishing industry. In a nutshell, “creative destruction” means that as new business models are created, they effectively destroy the older models. Levin brings [...]

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Big Six publishers decline to renew contract with Amazon over unfavorable terms

Chris Meadows — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:39:00 +0000

Salon Magazine has an extremely lengthy story looking at Amazon, and bringing up a couple of points I hadn’t heard about before. In main, the article looks at Amazon’s habit of making quiet but substantial grants to various small independent publishing organizations, totaling about $1 million per year. Is it done to support indie publishing, [...]

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Some publishers more willing to settle with DOJ than others over e-book pricing

Chris Meadows — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:49:39 +0000

The Wall Street Journal has some further news on the putative e-book pricing settlement in the US Justice Department and European Commission joint anti-trust investigation of the “Agency Five” publishers plus Apple. Anonymous sources have told the Journal that three publishers are inclined to settle and two others (plus Apple) are holding out. HarperCollins, Hachette, [...]

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Open Road files response to HarperCollins in Julie lawsuit

Chris Meadows — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 05:58:33 +0000

PaidContent reports that Open Road has filed a 14-page response to HarperCollin’s lawsuit over Jean C. George’s Julie of the Wolves e-book rights. The response went about as expected: Open Road is claiming that the contract for Julie of the Wolves does not cover e-books, and so HarperCollins does not have a leg to stand [...]

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The question of e-books in pre-e-book contracts

Chris Meadows — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:51:26 +0000

Apropos of the HarperCollins v. Open Road lawsuit over the backlist e-book title Julie of the Wolves, legal blogger Passive Guy (aka contract lawyer David Vandagriff) has written a fairly lengthy post looking at the question of whether e-book rights are covered in pre-e-book contracts. Passive Guy writes: A fundamental legal question involved in construing [...]

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Open Road issues statements on HarperCollins lawsuit

Chris Meadows — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:44:26 +0000

In regard to the HarperCollins’s lawsuit against Open Road over the Julie of the Wolves e-book, I received an email from Open Road representative Josh Raffel today with a couple of brief statements from Chris Davis, Open Road’s COO. Of the case itself, Davis writes: “It appears to us that HarperCollins is trying to intimidate [...]

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