News Briefings: HarperCollins Strives for Global Reach | Book Scanning Service1DollarScan Integrates with Evernote. Everyone happy?
"I think one of the things we want to do is give our authors the most profound ability to reach readers," says Kelly. "[It makes] happier authors. Keeping our authors as happy as we can is a very big priority."
This process could affect how rights are handled going forward.
"I was just over in the U.K. and our rights department has shown a lot of enthusiasm for what we're doing," says Kelly. "We want to make the best deal for the author and the publisher. Some authors already have long-established deals in place with publishers in other regions, but with new books and new authors, people will be looking at this earlier in the acquisition process. This is something we think we can keep in-house and, in the process, do better by the author and better by us."
The focus right now is on markets in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As for that other gigantic repository of English speakers, India, Kelly says that for HarperCollins 360, "India is interesting. [HarperCollins'] office in India is starting to grow itself. That will be a place we're looking to expand in the next couple of years, a definite focus in later phases of the project."
—Brian Howard
Book Scanning Service1DollarScan Integrates with Evernote. Everyone happy?
In August, the folks at 1DollarScan announced a program that makes their nifty, if somewhat controversial, service a little bit niftier. The San Jose, Calif., company scans customers' print books and converts them into ebooks—essentially giving John and Jane Q. Bookworm access to the same services big publishers outsource offshore when they convert their backlist titles.
Through a partnership with Evernote—the early favorite for best cloud app ever—customers who have their print books converted to ebooks through 1DollarScan can access those books through their Evernote interface.
