HarperCollins Chief Digital Officer Leaves To Head Pottermore
Charlie Redmayne, EVP and chief digital officer of HarperCollins, is leaving to become the CEO of interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.c… Read more »
Amazon’s New Kindle Book Promotion: The Breakdown
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Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is moving from periodic e-book sales (like Sunshine Deals and Big Deals) into regular month-long Kindle promotions (alon… Read more »
What You Haven’t Been Waiting For: Soundtracks For E-Books
A few of the items on many e-book readers’ wish lists: Proper formatting. Accurate page numbers. Low prices. Sharing. Library lending. “Bett… Read more »
The Biggest Losers From The Borders Bankruptcy
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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 nat… Read more »
What We Learned About The Book Industry This Week
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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 tr… Read more »
Where Book Publishers Can Find More Digital Talent
Can publishers develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world–social marketing, search engine optimization, app development–fr… Read more »
Publishers, Waterstones Turn Book Discovery Network In To Retail Store
HMV (LSE: HMV), HarperCollins, Penguin and Random House are financing a new “social retail” service aiming to help readers find, buy and sha… Read more »
Sarah Palin’s Publisher Settles Suit With Gawker
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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 sui… Read more »
LibreDigital Buys E-Commerce Technology From HarperCollins
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LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperColl… Read more »
LibreDigital Raises $8 Million For E-Book Distribution
Electronic book and newspaper distributor LibreDigital has raised $8.1 million in a third round of funding. The company’s technology helps b… Read more »
News Corp.’s HarperCollins And Apple?
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The latest content spec about the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) whatchamacallit comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which cites unidentified sou… Read more »
HarperCollins Pays Big Advance For A Book Of … Tweets
Yet another person is figuring out how to make decent money off Twitter that isn’t CEO Evan Williams: HarperCollins has commissioned former… Read more »
HarperCollins Pays Big Advance For A Book Of… Tweets
Yet another person is figuring out how to make decent money off Twitter that isn’t CEO Evan Williams: HarperCollins has commissioned former… Read more »
Watched Any Good Books Lately? HarperCollins Tries ‘Video Books’
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.… Read more »
HarperCollins Book Recommendation Site ‘Book Army’ Won’t Launch This Year After All
HarperCollins has been aggressively building up its social media offerings lately, but the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) publisher is going a little… Read more »
