HarperCollins Launches Site Promoting Enhanced Ebooks

HarperCollins has launched a new page on its website to promote enhanced ebooks. From a HarperCollins spokesperson: HarperCollins has launched a brand new website that features the Enhanced e-books library (e-books with extra content like video, photos, and more). Here …

HarperCollins Christian Adds More Spanish-Language Content in Licensing Deal

Following the success of its Spanish-language digital bible product in Spain, HarperCollins is making an investment in Spanish-language Christian content. [Press Release] HarperCollins Christian Publishing signs exclusive licensing partnership with Editorial CLIE One of the oldest Christian Spanish publishing houses …

If Murdoch Can’t Have Penguin, How About S&S?

Wall Street Journal reports that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, owner of HarperCollins, is exploring acquisition with Simon & Schuster. Reporters Christopher S. Stewart and John Jannarone describe the talks as “preliminary” and issued the usual cautions about shouting Fire when …

Amazon Begins Discounting HarperCollins E-Books

Just four days after Judge Denise Cote approved the settlement between the Department of Justice and Hachette, HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster, Amazon, the leading U.S. bookseller has begun to discount HarperCollins e-book titles.

HarperCollins CMO Angela Tribelli: The Outsider

It might just take a publishing industry outsider to solve the current marketing challenges facing publishers. We spoke with Angela Tribelli, the new HarperCollins chief marketing officer who comes from outside the industry, about marketing analytics, the recent sales reorganization at HarperCollins, and why publishers need to think more like direct marketers.

Digital Reading: Getting Agile About Books

Last week I had the opportunity to moderate a webcast titled “Agile Content Development for Book Publishers.” We had less than an hour to explain, demonstrate and sometimes defend the agile methodology in its use for books. We certainly didn’t …

Harper, Bowing to DOJ Pressure Over Agency Model, Settles

This just in from HarperCollins: Contact: Erin Crum Vice President, Corporate Communications HarperCollins Publishers (212) 207-7223 Erin.Crum@harpercollins.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE HarperCollins Publishers Settles e-Book Pricing Dispute with the Department of Justice New York, NY (April 11, 2012) — HarperCollins Publishers …