Product Launches

Press Release: Publishing Industry Veterans Launch Consulting Partnership
May 3, 2018 at 12:11 am

New York, April 27, 2018 -- Ken Brooks, Bill Kasdorf, Thad McIlroy, Bill Rosenblatt, and Bill Trippe announce the formation of Publishing Technology Partners (pubtechpartners.com), a new consulting partnership that will offer a broad range of experience and expertise from a single source to clients in all segments of the publishing industry and to suppliers…

Penguin Random House Canada Merges Two Imprints to Create Penguin Teen
October 13, 2016 at 2:26 pm

Penguin Random House Canada announced yesterday the launch of its newest young adult imprint, Penguin Teen. The imprint combines YA titles previously published under the imprints Doubleday Canada Books for Young Readers and Razorbill Canada. Tara Walker, publisher of Penguin Random House Canada Young Readers and VP of Penguin Random House Canada, explained the thinking…

Harlequin Launches New Fiction Imprint
October 5, 2016 at 12:54 pm

Harlequin has added another imprint to its trade program. Graydon House Books, which will focus on commercial women's fiction, will start releasing its first titles in September 2017 and be overseen by Dianne Moggy, v-p, editorial, and Susan Swinwood, executive editor. The imprint's titles will, Harlequin said, focus on titles that feature "a relationship element…

Press Release: Open Road Integrated Media Launches New Logo
August 15, 2016 at 12:31 pm

NEW YORK — August 15, 2016 Open Road Integrated Media today introduced new branding for their corporate identity. The logo design embodies the transformation of the growing enterprise, and unites all of the company’s consumer brands under one modern mark. When it launched in 2009, Open Road Integrated Media’s mission was to be an innovative…

Startup Snapshot: The Owl Field
March 18, 2016 at 10:56 am

The Owl Field is about 3D Audio storytelling. We produce immersive audio dramas that place the listener as the story’s central character, and from a first person perspective, everything happens around the listener in a 3D audio soundscape. Characters, sound effects and music surround the listener just as in the real world. The listener wears…

How Scholarly Publishers Are Redefining Roles & Transforming Infrastructure to Master New Tech
February 23, 2016 at 11:46 am

Scholarly publishing is a technology business. That’s been true for some time, of course. Yet the technology-driven approach to business is profoundly and fundamentally different from traditional publishing practices. How can scholarly publishers reconcile that dichotomy? How should a publisher utilize today’s technology in order to drive innovation? Those were the questions recently put to…

LearnLaunch, McGraw-Hill Education Team Up To School EdTech Startups
January 21, 2016 at 12:37 pm

Executives from McGraw-Hill Education will mentor local entrepreneurs as part of a partnership with Boston’s LearnLaunch edtech startup accelerator. “Startups play an important role in the digital ecosystem, and as a ‘125-year-old startup’ ourselves, we feel a kinship with them,” Stephen Laster, chief digital officer of McGraw-Hill Education, said in a news release. McGraw-Hill Education…

Amazon’s Echo Will Now Read Your Books to You
January 19, 2016 at 2:58 pm

While Amazon’s voice-controlled Echo may have caught consumers off-guard when it was first released last year, the retailer has been hard at work adding features to the device to make it more appealing to the least tech-savvy Prime members out there. According to ZDNet, Amazon just took a big leap forward with bibliophiles interested in…