HarperCollins US, Ingram and BookShout partner with booksellers for ebook bundling
In the US, HarperCollins, Ingram and ebook platform BookShout are working with 11 independent bookstores to provide bundling of print books and ebooks, said HarperCollins in a statement. Readers who select...
HarperCollins signs up to ebook bundling trial
HarperCollins US has signed up to an ebook-bundling pilot program with Canadian start-up BitLit. HarperCollins is the first of the big five publishers to partner with the company, which has...
HarperCollins launches direct-to-consumer website
In the US, HarperCollins has launched a new website with direct-to-consumer sales of print books, ebooks and audiobooks, reports the Publishers Weekly. The new design will be rolled out to HarperCollins’...
Howard to join HarperCollins
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Matt Howard to the newly created role of ABC Books campaign manager. Howard has worked as a publicist at NewSouth Books for four-and-a-half years....
Heffernan-Smith to head new digital marketing team at HarperCollins
HarperCollins has announced the creation of a new digital business team within its marketing communications division. ‘The team’s task will be to grow digital revenue through the development of existing...
Cappelluto to head new HarperCollins Children’s Books division
HarperCollins has announced the appointment of Cristina Cappelluto to the newly created position of children’s publishing director. Cappelluto, who will report to HarperCollins CEO James Kellow, will head the ‘new,...
Fourth Estate acquires Australian debut
HarperCollins Australia has announced the acquisition of a debut novel by Australian writer Sandra Leigh Price.HarperCollins acquired ANZ rights to A Tabernacle for the Birds in a two-book deal with the...
HarperCollins launches ‘direct to digital’ Impulse imprint
HarperCollins Australia has launched a new ‘direct to digital’ imprint.Harper Impulse will publish ‘fun, fast-paced reads in all commercial genres from epic fantasy to erotica’, said the company in a...
Harlequin launches Mills & Boon ‘online story world’
Harlequin has launched an ‘online story world’ based on the ‘Chatsfield’ series of Mills & Boon titles, reports the Guardian. The online story world centres on a fictional hotel called...
HarperCollins to acquire Harlequin
HarperCollins has agreed to acquire Harlequin for C$455 million (A$446 million), reports Publishers Weekly.The purchase still requires the approval of the US and Canadian governments. In Australia, the Australian Competition...
Ebooks by Sainsbury’s sells aNobii brand to Mondadori
In the UK, eBooks by Sainsbury’s has sold the brand of ebook website aNobii to Italian publisher Mondadori, reports the Bookseller. On 11 March, the aNobii board, which includes HarperCollins and Penguin Random...
Byng promoted at HarperCollins
Chren Byng has been promoted to the role of associate publisher of ABC Children’s Books at HarperCollins Australia. HarperCollins said in a statement this month that Byng has returned from maternity...
International Library News
HarperCollins makes ebook catalogue available to UK librariesHarperCollins UK will make over 5000 ebook titles available for library and school lending for the first time in the UK via OverDrive’s digital...
HarperCollins offers ebook rental to schools
In the US, HarperCollins is offering short-term ebook rental to schools via the Curriculet digital reading platform, reports Publishers Weekly. Schools subcribing to the pilot program will have access to the Curriculet digital reading app, which allows teachers...
HarperCollins partners with American Airlines, Hudson Booksellers for travel promotion
In the US, HarperCollins has partnered with American Airlines and travel bookshop Hudson Booksellers for a new promotion during December, reports Publishers Weekly. During the peak travel month of December,...
HarperCollins and Foyles to offer print, ebook bundles
In the UK, HarperCollins is partnering with bookselling chain Foyles to offer print and ebook bundles on eight selected titles, reports the Bookseller. The eight print titles will come shrink-wrapped...
ANZ ebooks grow by 50% for HarperCollins in 2012-13
Ebook sales for HarperCollins Australia and New Zealand grew by 50% in the 2012-13 financial year, according to CEO James Kellow. Responding to the 2012-13 financial results for parent-company News...
HarperCollins goes direct-to-consumer with CS Lewis ebooks
HarperCollins has launched two new websites that sell CS Lewis ebooks direct to consumers, reports the Bookseller. The websites www.cslewis.com and www.narnia.com are the result of a partnership between HarperCollins...
HarperCollins UK to launch fiction imprint The Borough Press
HarperCollins UK will launch a new fiction imprint called The Borough Press, reports the Bookseller. Led by HarperCollins publishing director Katie Espiner, The Borough Press will be part of HarperFiction,...
McCall Smith to adapt Austen’s ‘Emma’ for HarperCollins
In the UK, Alexander McCall Smith will write a modern adaptation of Jane Austen’s Emma, reports the Bookseller. McCall Smith is the latest author to sign up to HarperCollins’ ‘Austen...