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Warner Bros., Tolkien Estate Settle $80 Million ‘Hobbit’ Lawsuit – This is a pretty interesting lawsuit, because it focuses attention on contract language and digital rights. The Tolkien Estate, along with Harper Collins, claimed that Warner Bros. was producing digital products based on the Hobbit enterprise, when their licensing contract ... more >
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HarperCollins Vows to Fight Back in Canadian eBook Price-Fixing Case – So Harper Collins has decided that it does not want to join the Canadian ebook settlement that was negotiated in January with the Canadian Competition Bureau. The Bureau asserts that Harper Collins is engaging in anti-competitive behavior by not allowing retailers to ... more >
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HarperCollins Brings AI To Book Recommendations – From the Penguin Hotline to NPR’s Book Concierge, book recommendations are moving far away from the art of hand-selling, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that publishers are now turning to bots. Harper Collins is currently utilizing two on their Facebook accounts, and if ... more >
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New USA TODAY books list: The 100 books everyone’s reading – Many books on this list of the top 100 USA Today bestsellers for 2016 are no surprise (just look at the top five below). I made a mental note that Janet Evanovich is still selling Stephanie Plum at pretty robust ... more >
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Harlequin Blaze shutting down in 2017 – Although this news is still breaking on social media, we want to report the news that Harlequin (or should we say Harper Collins??) is shutting down the Blaze line completely in June 2017. Around the same time, it appears that Harlequin Historical and ... more >
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Novelist who redefined the ‘bonkbuster’ genre with her tales of bad behaviour in Hollywood. Source: The Telegraph Thank you to Katie F., who answered my Twitter call for a good obituary on Jackie Collins. I think this long profile from The Telegraph is great, because not only does it treat her work ... more >