HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, a children’s book published in 1972. The full text of the complaint is below.

I asked publishers and authors how they’re promoting their e-books for the holidays and got answers from bundling and free samplers to Kindle Fire giveaways. Click through to see who’s doing what.

$9.99 is often treated as a magic price—the cost of a New York Times bestseller on Kindle back in the good old days, before big-six publishers adopted agency pricing models and ended Amazon’s discounting of their books. However, for a variety of reasons, few readers ever had the chance to…

When we last heard from James Frey, he was releasing a YA novel with a soundtrack. Now his book packaging company, Full Fathom Five, is launching The Nightworld, a joint mobile video game and e-book.

HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson—publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real—for $200 million in a deal that will be finalized by the end of the year. Thomas Nelson has been on the forefront of experimentation with digital publishing, and HarperCollins is buying not just the company but…

Wannabe authors post their works to Authonomy, the writing community site launched by HarperCollins in 2008, in the hopes of being discovered and getting published. They’re a step closer to their goal with Authonomy’s launch of a digital imprint, which will “hand pick” the best writers on the site and…

Charlie Redmayne, EVP and chief digital officer of HarperCollins, is leaving to become the CEO of interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.com, starting November 7. It’s a high-profile publishing hire for Pottermore.com, which recently announced that it is delaying the launch of its e-bookstore until next year.

Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is moving from periodic e-book sales (like Sunshine Deals and Big Deals) into regular month-long Kindle promotions (along with its Kindle Daily Deals, launched last week). A new section of the Kindle store now offers “100 Kindle books for $3.99 or less,” selected by editors each month.…

A few of the items on many e-book readers’ wish lists: Proper formatting. Accurate page numbers. Low prices. Sharing. Library lending. “Better music” probably isn’t on that list, but today a new company, Booktrack, launches with the goal to add soundtracks to e-books. Peter Thiel, the co-founder of Facebook and…

Yesterday’s news that the Borders bookstore chain is going to be sold off—much of it probably at fire-sale prices—means that some of the nation’s biggest publishers are going to be taking a bath, financially. Five publishing houses are owed more than $25 million by the bookstore chain, and many others…

We’d expected that Liberty Media’s bid for Barnes & Noble would be the most talked-about topic this week at BookExpo America, the largest trade book fair in the United States. Then Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) stunned the industry by hiring traditional publishing vet Larry Kirshbaum to launch its new general trade…

Can publishers develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world—social marketing, search engine optimization, app development—from within their companies, or do they have to hire from outside the industry?  In a Publishers Launch Conferences panel moderated by Lorraine Shanley, principal of book industry consulting and executive recruitment…

HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and share books.

Well, that was quick. The Palin v. Gawker copyright fight over a leak of Sarah Palin’s memoir has been resolved just four days after the suit was filed. HarperCollins says that Gawker agreed to keep the images of Palin’s book off its site forever, but did not disclose if it…

LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperCollins, which it says will allow it to offer a “complete end-to-end solution for publishers looking to accelerate sales of e-books and digital content.” LibreDigital has historically helped publishers deliver their content to e-readers…

Electronic book and newspaper distributor LibreDigital has raised $8.1 million in a third round of funding. The company’s technology helps book publishers distribute their content on devices like the Kindle, iPad, and Nook, and also helps newspapers, including the NYT, build electronic editions. The company counts eight of the top…

The latest content spec about the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) whatchamacallit comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which cites unidentified sources who say News Corp (NYSE: NWS) sibling HarperCollins is negotiating an e-book deal. That doesn’t mean there is a deal, of course, or that one will be announced at…

Yet another person is figuring out how to make decent money off Twitter that isn’t CEO Evan Williams: HarperCollins has commissioned former Valleywag editor Nick Douglas to collect and edit Twitter Wit, a book of ... well, witty tweets. According to Valleywag, Douglas is getting a “five-figure sum” for the…

For those who don’t have the time to listen to an audiobook, let alone read a hardback or e-Book, HarperCollins brings you: the video book. Perhaps fittingly, the first author to get the video treatment is BuzzMachine’s Jeff Jarvis, whose book, What Would Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Do?, will be available…