Debut author Leigh Fallon, discovered on HarperCollins’ community YA site, is one example about how the path to authorship is changing
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.
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.
#BEA11: YA Writers Collaborate to Educate About Bullying
By Rachel Aydt Wednesday at noon, on the Uptown Stage, four YA authors gathered to discuss their new book project Dear Bully, a spirited anthology that has gathered some of the industries best to crack open the shame and hurt of being bullied—and bullying. The panelists were Ellen Hopkins, Lisa McCann, Megan Kelley Hall, and Mary Rose Wood. To whet …
8 Lessons from the UK’s World E-Reading Congress
Some things bear repeating, and repeating and repeating… By Roger Tagholm LONDON: Dedicated e-readers could die out within five years, killed off by the rise of smartphones at the lower end of the market, and by tablets at the top. That’s the view of Benedict Evans, digital media guru at London-based consultancy Enders Analysis and Chair of the final day of …
World E-Reading Congress Report: Date – Don’t Marry – Technology
By Roger Tagholm LONDON: There were some choice phrases on offer at the World e-Reading Congress, held in London this week. “Apple is a walled garden; Android is an open garden – but it has a lot of weeds in it,” was one, from Richard Stephenson, CEO of Yudu Media, the free library of digital content, discussing the relative benefits of …
Lack of E-books on UK Bestseller List Causes Problems
In a convincing post at The Bookseller, Scott Pack, publisher of The Friday Project, an imprint of HarperCollins, notes that the lack of e-book sales integration into the UK bestseller lists cases a “whole host of problems,” not the least of which is that it might undermine a books ability to hit the list. Until recently, e-book sales in the …
Royal Wedding App Attack
By Roger Tagholm and Edward Nawotka HarperCollins has developed a Kings and Queens app for British historian David Starkey’s forthcoming Crown and Country that will include live TV coverage of the Royal wedding between Prince William and Kate Middleton on April 29. The development, in conjunction with TradeMobile, is yet another example of the possibilities afforded by the digital space and …
At #LBF11: Will Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal Impact HarperCollins?
By Roger Tagholm As difficult weeks for parent companies go, the one just past would take some beating for News Corp, owners of HarperCollins. The UK papers have been full of stories about the phone hacking scandal at the Murdoch-owned News of the World, and there is certainly more to come. All of which meant that, as guests arrived at HarperCollins …
Dirty Girls and Self Publishing: The Tricks of the Trade
By Alisa Valdes ALBUQUERQUE: Me? I hate flying. My therapist says I’m a control freak who thinks everything crashes unless I’m in charge. There’s some truth to this. It is probably why my marriage failed and why my kid is an overacheiver. It is probably also not a stretch to compare my fear of flying/need for control to my drooling …