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Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

Sundry links from around the Web: It looks like Shortcovers, Indigo's downloadable e-book application for mobile devices, has some new competition: Lexycycle, the start-up behind the popular iPhone e-book reader Stanza, has been acquired by ... Read More »

April 28, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Good news from HarperCollins?

By Eric Emin Wood

While many American houses are shuttering their specialty divisions and laying off employees, HarperCollins is bucking its own trend by creating a new division. It Books will focus on "pop culture, sports, style and content derived ... Read More »

March 10, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

By Steven W. Beattie

CBC Radio's annual battle of the books, Canada Reads, kicks off today with five celebrity panelists each defending one Canadian novel they think that Canada should read. Each day this week, one novel gets knocked ... Read More »

March 2, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Australia’s Christopher Paolini

By Eric Emin Wood

Books written by teenage authors are nothing new, of course (S.E. Hinton's The Outsiders and Gordon Korman's This Can't Be Happening At McDonald Hall come to mind), but it's still rare to see an entire ... Read More »

February 24, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

By Scott MacDonald

At this point, you gotta wonder: has anyone in Canada not read Lawrence Hill's The Book of Negroes? Released by HarperCollins Canada more than two years ago, the book has grown from a solid word-of-mouth ... Read More »

February 13, 2009 | Filed under: Awards

BookMarks: More bad news from HarperCollins

By Stuart Woods

HarperCollins in the U.S. has laid off two executives and announced the scuttling of its four-year-old Collins division. In more bad news, the company revealed today that it's also closing the shortlived Bowen Press. BookExpo ... Read More »

February 11, 2009 | Filed under: Book news, Libraries

Rough quarter for HarperCollins

By Stuart Woods

HarperCollins is recording a huge drop in revenue for the three months ending Dec. 31, and the company's finances look to be shaping up for a dismal fiscal year. From Publishers Weekly: Revenue at HarperCollins ... Read More »

February 6, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Another new format?

By Eric Emin Wood

We've all heard of audiobooks, but videobooks? HarperCollins is trying to pitch short films of authors summarizing their books (until recently known as an online promotional trailer) as a new format “ even going so ... Read More »

February 3, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

HarperCollins offers voluntary retirement package to U.S. employees

By Stuart Woods

Of all the cost-saving measures announced by major U.S. publishers in past weeks, those at HarperCollins have until now been relatively mild. However, this morning, the company presented a voluntary retirement package to its U.S. ... Read More »

January 27, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Parsing Black Wednesday

By Stuart Woods

One of the worst weeks in U.S. publishing history has left the book trade facing a grim tally. Just to sum up, on Wednesday three of the biggest publishers south of the border announced massive ... Read More »

December 5, 2008 | Filed under: Industry news

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Search Results by tag: HarperCollins

Bookmarks: Stanza acquired by Amazon, and more

Good news from HarperCollins?

Canada Reads 2009 kicks off today

Australia’s Christopher Paolini

The unstoppable Book of Negroes

BookMarks: More bad news from HarperCollins

Rough quarter for HarperCollins

Another new format?

HarperCollins offers voluntary retirement package to U.S. employees

Parsing Black Wednesday

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