Avon and The Sak has teemed up to give away a handbag and books each month. This month’s giveaway is the Silverlake Canvas Convertible Satchel($99 retail value) filled with two Meg Cabot books, 1 Rachel Gibson book and 1 Marion Keyes book. The giveaway is for 15 sets of the books + bag [...]
HarperCollins is experimenting with a no return policy. According to the GalleyCat article yesterday, 31% of books printed are returned to the publishers. Removing the right of return would reduce environmental waste. However, no returns will likely result in fewer books ordered by the chain stores. Independents might eliminate ordering books [...]
I’ve never said that before, have I? Before I get to the upcoming news, let me remind the readers that there were two outstanding Caroline Linden ARC’s for her June book, A Rake’s Guide to Seduction. Two readers didn’t come forward so I am re-opening the opportunity. Caroline Linden [...]
There was a Publishers Weekly alert about Robert S. Miller, former head of Hyperion, moving to HarperCollins to create a new “publishing studio.” I ignored it because it didn’t seem very interesting but three authors emailed me the story this morning so I thought I would post it.
I admit I don’t really understand all [...]
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A Better Quarter for Harper
HarperCollins rebounded in their fiscal second quarter after a “terrible” first quarter, with sales rising 3 percent compared to a year ago to $406 million and income of $67 million–up $13 million from the same time last year, though that was [...]
Sadly what could have provided salacious gossip in the publishing world for months is put to bed. Judith Regan and HarperCollins have put away their litigation swords for an undisclosed sum of money and a sort of apology.
“After carefully considering the matter, we accept Ms. Regan’s position that she did not say [...]
Eos, a division of Harper Collins, is giving away one free book in e format every two months for 2008 in celebration for their 10th Anniversary (plus they get your email address). The first book is Robin Hobb’s, Shaman’s Crossing.
Robin Hobb is a Washington writer, well known for the Farseer, Liveship Traders, and Tawny [...]
The book world is abuzzing with the complaint filed by Judith Regan, former head of Regan Publishing, a division of HarperCollins. No one can deny that Regan was a success. In her complaint, she alleges that she generated over $1B in sales. Fifteen of Regan’s books were NYT Bestsellers with five of [...]
The non fiction self help book by Joel Osteen, Become a Better You, helped to provide Simon & Schuster with good numbers in the fourth quarter. The Secret is still selling strong and it’s sequel, The Secret Gratitude Book, is set to be on shelves in December. Sales were up in all divisions [...]
There has been some tension between romance blogs and the romance website, All About Romance. When I first read the threads over at AAR that turned from why some didn’t like the message board change to why blogs are exclusive and narcissistic, my first instinct was to reach out and say that we welcome [...]
According to the NY Times, James Frey has sold his second memoir to Harper Collins for an undisclosed sum of money. I would think that HarperCollins would fact check the heck out of the second memoir, “Bright Shiny Morning”, but whether the public will buy it remains to be seen.
Via NY Times.
Avon moves forward with its plan to publish original ebook content. It was first learned that original content would be from erotica author Delilah Devlin but a new announcement indicates that bestselling authors will contribute to the ebook only publishing arm.
Victoria Alexander’s ebook original is entitled Lady Amelia’s Secret Lover and [...]
HarperCollins is making iPhone compatible ebook content available. iPhone users can go to http://mobile.harpercollins.com and view the first 10 pages of chapters one and two of 14 books released in August and September. There will be a link to pre-order/order the book from a list of retailers.
Titles to be made available include:
The Art [...]
Newscorp, the parent company of HarperCollins, reported their official 2007 fiscal numbers. HarperCollins had a mixed bag for the 4th quarter. Revenue was up $39 million over the same quarter in 2006 to $295 million, but full year operating income declined $8 million.
HarperCollins indicated that that the $8 million decline was [...]
With everyone else posting positive years, Harper Collins had 2 glum quarters. In the third quarter of fiscal 2007, however, profits are up at Harper Collins by a whopping 11%. Overall profits in the first nine months of the fiscal year were down by 20%.
The 3d [...]
The e-backlist has been a long time in coming. Readers, particularly romance readers, are big glommers and they often are searching for the one book their reading buddy says is a must find. Unfortunately, these books are often difficult to find and very expensive. Publishers are being more responsive by making backlist titles [...]
While perusing the deals today, I came across a sale by agent Bob Diforio to Harper Collins for three erotic novellas penned by Delilah Devlin. The wording of the deal was so different that I wondered if it meant what I thought it meant.
Delilah Devlin's three erotic novellas, again to May Chen at Harper, [...]
TokyoPop is offering more titles this fall than ever before with titles for all ages such as the Cine-Manga for young children based on the Pixar movie Ratatouille. In its partnership with HarperCollins, Tokyopop will release two books this summer including Avalon High: Coronation #1: The Merlin Prophecy (Avalon High Coronation) by Meg Cabot, [...]
Yesterday, HarperCollins rolled out its “Browse Inside” feature that will eventually be available for all its books and could be embedded in blogs and websites.
Not to be outdone, Random House debuted its “Browse and Search” widget.
new InsightBookReader(’preview’, ‘9780345486585′, ‘Drop Dead Gorgeous’, ‘Linda Howard’, ‘0′, ”, ‘http://www.randomhouse.com/cgi-bin/buy_landing.php?isbn=9780345486585′);
I like the Random House Widget [...]
HarperCollins launched its “Browse Inside” feature on its website today. Similar to Amazon’s “Search Inside” and a competitor to Google’s Book Search, Harper’s “Browse Inside” allows readers to “get a sense” of the book before purchasing.
According to the website, every HarperCollins book will have a “Browse Inside” feature. Each book has different [...]
There is a fascinating article at New York Magazine about Judith Regan and how she became to be the fall person for the OJ Simpson debacle. The author, Vanessa Grigoriadis, seems to have some personal connection with Regan and admits to finding her likeable. The article provides interesting backstory to Regan’s career [...]
HarperCollins announced that its Regan Books imprint will be eliminated. As of March 1, 2007, all Regan books will display the HC logo. Via Media Bistro.
Ann Allessi, Publisher, HarperMedia, of HarperCollins agreed to answer some questions about HarperCollins eBook initiatives. Out of all the major publishers, I think HarperCollins is really making an effort to give romance readers digital content. Every month, virtually every Avon romance is released in ebook format at the same time the paper copy [...]
Even after HarperCollins officially pulled the plug on the OJ Simpson fabled tell all, If I Did It, and all 400,000 copies (except the stolen ones and ones inadvertentlys shipped) are slated to be destroyed, TIME reports that OJ will be getting the rights to this story sometime in 2007. European publishers are said [...]
According to Variety, Judith Regan, who was fired on Friday night of last week, is filing a suit seeking at least, the balance of compensation owed under her contract. Via Media Bistro.
If you missed it, Monday opened with swirling allegations that Regan was fired for anti-semitic remarks.
HarperCollins announced that Judith Regan was fired. I don’t know if it was because of the OJ book or because of the perverse fictionalized reality memoir of Mickey Mantle that she planned to publish. The Mantle book was described as
Two media insiders who have read the galley, each of whom asked not [...]
Jane Friedman is the CEO of HarperCollins, the parent company of AVON. Since Friedman joined HC in 1997, revenues have increased almost 80%. Per Publishers Weekly.
I read an article once where Friedman talked about a return to the branding of a publisher/imprint than individual authors. I think its interesting to see her [...]
According to Mobile Read, the Sony Reader is ready for release. You could get it before the end of the month or at least by the beginning of the month. I’ll be at Borders in October to check it out.
One of the pics from Nathan shows a booklight attached. Cumbersome but usable. [...]
