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Ebook Sales Weaken Amid Higher Prices
September 4, 2015 at 12:08 pm

When the world's largest publishers struck ebook distribution deals with Amazon.com Inc. over the past several months, they seemingly got what they wanted: the right to set the prices of their titles and avoid the steep discounts the online retail giant often applies. But in the early going, that strategy doesn't appear to be paying…

Kamil Szybalski Talks Shelfie Rebrand
September 3, 2015 at 2:31 pm

Bitlit, an app that connects readers with e-book versions of print books they own, has renamed the company Shelfie. The company works with more than 300 publishers and has 100,000 titles available for users to download. Galley Cat caught up with Kamil Szybalski, vp of growth at Shelfie, to discuss what’s new with the company.

Press Release: HaperCollins Publishers Introduces the HarperCollins BookLab in the Seaport Culture District
September 3, 2015 at 11:57 am

NEW YORK—September 1, 2015—HarperCollins Publishers today introduced the event schedule for the HarperCollins BookLab, which will be popping up in the Seaport Culture District from September 12 through October 22. Throughout this six-week period, the space, which is located within Seaport Studios at 19 Fulton Street, will feature a curated list of titles available for…

HarperCollins India Announces New CEO
August 26, 2015 at 2:57 pm

Last week HarperCollins shared the news that P.M. Sukumar was stepping down as CEO of HarperCollins India to “pursue other interests.” On Tuesday the publisher announced that Ananth Padmanabhan will replace him, leaving his position at Penguin Random House where he was senior vice president of sales. Along with the new hire, the publisher has…

HarperCollins Reports Growth for 2015, Thanks to Harlequin Acquisition
August 13, 2015 at 6:12 pm

News Corp closed out a strong year, according to its latest financial report, and it credits some of that success to growth at HarperCollins. But a deeper look at the numbers, courtesy of The Bookseller’s Lisa Campbell and The Digital Reader’s Nate Hoffelder, reveal that without the acquisition of Harlequin, the Big Five publisher’s revenue…

News Corp. All Set With Watchman
July 13, 2015

News Corp. executives are as pumped as the most die-hard Harper Lee fans for the release at midnight of Go Set a Watchman, the reclusive 89-year-old author's long-shrouded sequel to her landmark 1960 breakthrough and only published novel, To Kill a Mockingbird.

The global media conglomerate controlled by Rupert Murdoch owns HarperCollins, Watchman's publisher, which stands to make a good buck from sales of the preternaturally anticipated book.

As News Corp's legacy newspaper division has struggled over the past few years due to the industry-wide decline in print advertising revenues, the company has benefited from smaller segments where growth

Apple's Mistake Was Hooking Up with the Book-Publishing Cartel
July 1, 2015

Apple may be trying to keep the spotlight on its latest foray into the streaming-music business, but it is also still trying to clean up the mess caused by its ham-handed entry into an earlier market: book publishing. A federal court on Tuesday rejected the company's appeal of an earlier ruling that found it guilty of orchestrating a conspiracy with the major book publishers, in what the court said was a successful attempt to artificially inflate the price of e-books.

Apple Conspired With Book Publishers, Appeals Court Confirms
June 30, 2015

An appeals court in New York on Tuesday upheld a 2013 verdict that Apple organized an illegal conspiracy with five book publishers to raise the price of ebooks, noting that so-called horizontal price-fixing is "the supreme evil of antitrust."

The ruling ends a long-running legal fight between Apple and the U.S. Justice Department, and paves the way for Apple AAPL 0.58% to start issuing payouts to consumers in a related class-action settlement.

HarperCollins, Goodreads & PRH on How the Book Discoverability Game Has Changed
June 5, 2015

Building buzz for a book used to be a pretty straightforward endeavor. Finagle a book review at a leading mass media outlet like The New York Times and the title was sure to be a bestseller. As media has moved to digital, though, discoverability of books has become much more fragmented. While a review in NYT is nothing to sniff at today, there are other players that book marketers should be targeting.