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Does Murdoch’s HarperCollins Move Presage a Sale?

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Does HarperCollins’ split from other parts of News Corp presage a sale? No, said the UK CEO at the company’s annual party, it will bring further investment.

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3 Reasons HarperCollins 360 Took So Long to Start

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Money, marketing and management all likely prevented HarperCollins from offering all its English titles to global readers at once, but that’s finally changed.

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Publishers Beware! More Creative Destruction on the Way

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The digital transition in publishing could mean unlikely business acquisitions are in store for major publishers by tech giants like Apple.

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Central European Crime Wave Sweeps Publishing

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Crime writers from Hungary, Poland, and throughout Central Europe are making their way into English. Will they prove as popular as the Scandinavians?

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When it Comes to Politics, Where Should Publishers Draw the Line?

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Perhaps publishers simply don’t have the power or influence over high status political authors to demand that they produce more rigorous, less biased books.

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Are We Verging on a Digital Rights War?

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There will be a war over e-book rights only if the the opposition — the upstarts and indies are willing and financially able to put up a costly legal fight.

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iStoryTime and HarperCollins Children’s Books Bring Biscuit Digital

By Dennis Abrams With over 16 million copies in print, it is safe to say that Biscuit Visits the Pumpkin Patch is one of the  … 

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Are Social Media Sites the New Slush Pile?

Debut author Leigh Fallon, discovered on HarperCollins’ community YA site, is one example about how the path to authorship is changing

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Q&A: Brian Murray, CEO, HarperCollins

Brian Murray, CEO of HarperCollins spoke to Nigel Roby of The Bookseller about e-books, royalty rates and digital publishing at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

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Building Online Communities for Teen Readers

The number of teen and YA publishing sites has proliferated in the past year. Here we survey the scene, looking at what works and why.

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