In a bit of déjà vu, HarperCollins and the private equity firm KRR, which both lost out to Penguin Random House when Simon & Schuster was initially put up for sale, are reported among the leading contenders to buy the publisher this time around. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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Last fall, Timothy O’Connell, an editor at Vintage, noticed a starred PW review of The Natural Order of Things by Kevin P. Keating. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is releasing HarperCollins Unbound, a new, free app for Apple and Android smartphones that allows consumers to scan HarperCollins print books for additional digital content. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-11-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has reorganised its communications team following the departure of Siobhan Kenny,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins and Foyles have partnered to sell ebook and print book bundles on selected titles... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-31 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins has begun selling ebooks direct to consumers through new brand-specific websites,... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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By nixing DRM and selling in the MOBI format, Poland’s ebook players are making strides forward, but the market is still fragmented. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Andrews McMeel Publishing has moved quickly to produce and promote Lang Leav’s Love & Misadventure, a 176-page volume containing 75 poems, as well as prose and illustrations, in which the author ruminates upon the highs and lows that inevitably accompany romantic relationships. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins Children's Books has acquired a debut project from spoken word poet Steven... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-10-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Whether publishers want it or not, the Netflix model is coming to the book business.The San Francisco startup Scribd, best known as a site for posting PDFs of documents, announced Tuesday it is launching a multi-platform digital book subscription service that will provide access to a wide range... Continue reading at Crains New York
[ Crains New York | 2013-10-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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SAN FRANCISCO -- There is Netflix for online videos and Pandora and Spotify for streaming music by subscription. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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For a small monthly fee, consumers are used to getting unlimited access to all types of content: movies, TV shows, music, news, video games. Could that same model soon become popular in the world of publishing? Given the success of Netflix in video and Spotify in music, it's inevitable that... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2013-10-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Tribune Co., which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and seven other daily newspapers, is reviewing possible cost cuts in its print publishing division. "We're trying to determine how to put our publishing businesses on the best po ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2013-09-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Ex-army man Charlie Redmayne may have left Pottermore to take the helm at HarperCollins UK, but he's not taking sides in the war between print and digital. Continue reading at Publishing Perspectives
[ Publishing Perspectives | 2013-09-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schoolchildren are being asked to imagine what they would do if they had the powers of the Norse... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-08-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Facebook has designed a system that would allow individuals and advertisers to make direct connections to those physically nearby that share similar interests or are open to receiving certain advertisements. The company’s work was outlined in a U.S. patent filing for a “wireless social... Continue reading at PC World
[ PC World | 2013-08-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The two-book deal William Morrow signed with Patricia Cornwell earlier this month was just the latest high-profile deal in a concerted effort by parent company HarperCollins to rebuild the house’s fiction list. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-08-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Amazon's Android-flavored reading app is offering up a couple more of its own e-reader's features for those with Google-fied devices. Just like folks with Kindles have already encountered, the Kindle for Android app now keeps tabs on time remaining in both chapter and book should pace be of... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2013-08-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
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In his new memoir, Rob Sheffield explores how karaoke lifted him out of existential doom after his wife's sudden death.Rob Sheffield is the kind of true-blue music nerd who'll pause his latest memoir — one with a subtitle promising a book about "the rituals of love & karaoke" — to address... Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2013-08-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Siobhan Kenny, group communications director for HarperCollins UK and International, is to leave... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2013-07-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corporation, a diversified global media company with operations in cable network programming, film, television, direct broadcast satellite television, and publishing. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2013-07-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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