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July 4, 2017

Tuesday News: Tolkien lawsuit settled, Standard Ebooks, Romance hashtags, and daylight fireworks

JanetPublishing Newsbook clubs / digital licensing / Harper Collins / Romance hashtags / Standard Ebooks / Tolkien / Warner Bros3 Comments

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 >

March 8, 2017

Wednesday News: Harper Collins resists Canadian ebook settlement; Nancy Willard dies; “Alien Bounty Hunter;” and hilarious giraffe video

JanetPublishing NewsAgency pricing / April the giraffe / Canada / comic book adaptations / Ebooks / Harper Collins / pregnancy / Vault Comics4 Comments

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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March 1, 2017

Wednesday News: book bots, Amazon’s drone delivery, mixed-media book pricing, and interrogating authors

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Book pricing / bots / customs / drones / Harper Collins / mixed-media books / U.S. airports5 Comments

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 >

April 27, 2016

Wednesday News: RIP Harlequin Blaze, WTF Hugo Awards, and Curtis Sittenfeld retells Austen

JanetPublishing NewsAusten Project / Curtis Sittenfeld / Harlequin Historical / Harlequin Romance / Harlequin-Blaze / Harper Collins / Hugo Awards / Jane Austen12 Comments

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 >

September 21, 2015

Monday News: RIP Jackie Collins, HC’s global campaign, fake app reviews, and public domain martial arts movies

JanetPublishing Newsapplications / bonkbuster / fake reviews / films / global publishing market / Harper Collins / Jackie Collins / martial arts / obituary / public domain / publishing / reviews3 Comments

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 >

July 10, 2015

Friday News: Bestsellers, Subscription Services, and Super Heroes

JanetPublishing Newsbestseller lists / digital books / ESPN / Harper Collins / Macmillan / Marvel / Oyster / Scribd / subscription services / superheroes2 Comments

N.Y. Times keeps Cruz off bestseller list – Despite robust sales for Ted Cruz’s new book, it does not appear on the New York Times bestseller list, which prompted Harper Collins to send a letter to the newspaper, asking them why the book was absent from the list. Initially, Harper Collins ... more >

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