HarperCollins

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — December 12, 2016 — You can order a  pizza, get a car-service pick up, hear the score of your favorite team’s game, listen to your favorite music — all with a little help from “Alexa.”   Amazon’s built in “intelligent assistant” is summoned by millions of American households who own the Amazon Echo,…

I write this for all women considering their careers: you may be thinking about a job in publishing, but you may not have considered working in technology for a publisher. Tech careers in publishing are a great way to engage with and to support the business in so many ways, and while gender diversity isn’t…

NEW YORK — September 6, 2016 — BookShout, an elegant ebook platform focused on creating new digital initiatives for top brands, companies, and partners, today announced it distributed more than 237,000 eBooks as part of T-Mobile Tuesdays. The engagement, which occurred over two separate 24-hour blocks, resulted in customers reading more than 97,000,000 words read…

Be it tweets, blog posts, or marketing materials, content produced by book publishers is traditionally about the books they publish. But that’s not always the case. Some publishers are hosting blogs with “publisher agnostic” content, meaning the site will feature books and authors they don’t publish. In fact, some of these websites all but obscure…

This post examines the latest quarterly financial reports from the big 5 book publishers and tries to draw some conclusions from the data. The big 5 are, of course, Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster. These companies are often seen as emblematic of the state of traditional trade book publishing in the…

CHICAGO — June 29, 2016 — R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company (Nasdaq:RRD) announces a new multi-year agreement with HarperCollins Publishers which renews and expands the relationship with HarperCollins, a customer of the RR Donnelley company for decades. Under the terms of this new agreement, RR Donnelley will provide print, fulfillment and distribution services across…

Authors, get ready for your close-up. HarperCollins Publishers is launching a daily Facebook Live program that enables readers to interact with its writers through real-time video and written questions, helping authors expand their reach beyond local bookstore events. The book publisher is the latest company to experiment with the social network’s real-time video tool, which…

With offices in 18 countries in Asia, Australia, Europe, and North and South America, HarperCollins is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world, after Penguin Random House. It’s the job of Harper’s Global Corporate Strategy Director Kerry Saretsky to create and implement HarperCollins’ international strategy, at both the corporate level and at the far more granular…

HarperCollins has had a difficult time replacing the megahits American Sniper and the Divergent series since its current fiscal year started last July. That trend continued into the quarter ended March 31, the third period of HC’s fiscal 2016. According to results released by parent company News Corp, revenue in the quarter fell 11%, to…

If there’s one thing readers love it’s extra reading apps on their iOS and Android devices. A few years ago there were about a dozen – apps for long-form writing, apps for books, apps that let publishers monetize (not really) by offering their own downloads. Now there’s Kindle. And, we learn today in a press…