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This is a really welcome first move. Though I agree that the e-royalties need to be much higher, and for all books,…
HarperCollins is paying authors more when they sell their print, e- and audiobooks directly through its website. It’s a step in the right direction, even if it’s not the standard higher digital royalty that many agents and authors have been pushing for.
Book startups face a number of challenges — not least of which is the fact that they are competing with Amazon.
HarperCollins has begun selling some ebooks directly, starting with titles by C.S. Lewis. These are DRM-protected EPUB files, so if you want a Kindle version you’ll have to buy through Amazon.
Random House has acquired teen reading and writing community Figment. Figment had previously acquired Inkpop, a similar site from HarperCollins.
I was skeptical that we’d ever see a Netflix for ebooks. Oyster’s launch on Thursday proved me wrong: It offers books that you’ve actually heard of, in a very well-designed app, for $9.95 per month.
Virtual Harry Potter community and digital bookstore Pottermore.com is losing its CEO: Charlie Redmayne has been appointed CEO of HarperCollins U.K. So what does this mean for Pottermore?
The University of Pennsylvania, Frederator Studios, the Chicago Tribune and the Toronto Star all recently started publishing ebooks. Here are some of the lessons they’ve learned — and how well they’re doing.
A new initiative from HarperCollins allows authors to give away digital advance copies of their ebooks. The ebooks are protected by DRM and can only be read on devices that support Adobe Digital Editions (which does not include Kindle).
HarperCollins will launch a digital-first line of mysteries and thrillers this fall. The company also said that as of August 1, it will pay all of its digital-first authors royalties on a monthly basis, competing with Amazon Publishing.
In a lawsuit over the ebook rights to Jean Craighead George’s Julie of the Wolves, HarperCollins argues that its 1971 contract with George included the right to publish ebooks, while Open Road argues that isn’t possible.
Starting Tuesday, Inkling is making its free digital publishing platform, Habitat, available to everyone. The company is also introducing an enterprise product, with publishers including Pearson and Wolters-Kluwer as launch clients.
HarperCollins is launching a new imprint, HarperTeen Impulse, that will publish digital short stories and novellas priced between $0.99 and $2.99. Upcoming titles include short stories by bestselling YA authors Walter Dean Myers and Sarah Mlynowski and novellas by Courtney Allison Moulton and Scott Westerfeld.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s estate and publisher HarperCollins are suing Warner Brothers over digital rights to “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit.” The suit alleges that Warner Brothers violated copyright by developing online gambling games and slot machines.
HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster’s parent companies both reported earnings Wednesday. While News Corp shared little about HarperCollins’ performance, CBS noted that digital made up 21 percent of Simon & Schuster’s revenues for the quarter.
Just a few days after a federal judge approved the Department of Justice’s settlement with HarperCollins, Hachette and Simon & Schuster, Amazon and other digital bookstores have begun discounting HarperCollins ebooks, revealing that the publisher quickly entered new contracts.
Zola Books, a startup social ebook retailer that aims to sell titles from all publishers when it launches publicly this fall, has hired Seale Ballenger, formerly at HarperCollins, and Mary Ann Naples, formerly at OpenSky.
In an effort to make ebook gift-giving more spontaneous and fun, Los Angeles-based startup Livrada is partnering with Target to sell gift cards for bestselling ebook titles like “50 Shades of Grey” and “Gone Girl” in the chain’s 1,771 stores nationwide.
The News Corp. (s nws) board of directors is expected to decide within days whether to start the process that would split…
HarperCollins has launched Epic Reads, a digital community designed to connect readers with HarperTeen authors and books. But this is not a retail site.
Ray Bradbury was right about so many things that it almost hurts to write this: he was wrong when it came to reading. But then I also get to tell you this: he changed his mind. HarperCollins tells paidContent a digital backlist is in the works.
Open Road Media responded today to the lawsuit that HarperCollins filed against it in December over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo…
HarperCollins is suing digital publisher Open Road Integrated Media for copyright infringement over the digital rights to Jean Craighead Geo…
HarperCollins is acquiring Christian publisher Thomas Nelson–publisher of the mega-bestselling Heaven Is For Real–for $200 million in a de…
Wannabe authors post their works to Authonomy, the writing community site launched by HarperCollins in 2008, in the hopes of being discovere…
Charlie Redmayne, EVP and chief digital officer of HarperCollins, is leaving to become the CEO of interactive Harry Potter site Pottermore.c…
A few of the items on many e-book readers’ wish lists: Proper formatting. Accurate page numbers. Low prices. Sharing. Library lending. “Bett…
Can publishers develop the skills they need to survive in a digital world–social marketing, search engine optimization, app development–fr…
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…
LibreDigital, the heavily backed electronic book and newspaper distributor, is buying e-commerce technology from News Corp.-owned HarperColl…
Electronic book and newspaper distributor LibreDigital has raised $8.1 million in a third round of funding. The company’s technology helps b…
The latest content spec about the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) whatchamacallit comes courtesy of the Wall Street Journal, which cites unidentified sou…
Yet another person is figuring out how to make decent money off Twitter that isn’t CEO Evan Williams: HarperCollins has commissioned former…
Yet another person is figuring out how to make decent money off Twitter that isn’t CEO Evan Williams: HarperCollins has commissioned former…
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.…
With Oprah pushing an e-reader to her audience, Google placing whole books online, and the popularity of programs such as Stanza, which…
HarperCollins has been aggressively building up its social media offerings lately, but the News Corp (NYSE: NWS) publisher is going a little…
HarperCollins, the book publishing company owned by News Corp (NYSE: NWS). is launching its books social networking site called Authonomy (f…
Publisher HarperCollins plans to launch an internet-focused unit that will eschew author advances, according to a somewhat odd WSJ report. B…
This is not the first time both book publishing heavyweights have pushed online sampling…old wine in a new bottle, if you ask me.
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