Mar 01 2016
Louise Rennison has died aged 63. She was the author of 10 young adult novels featuring Georgia Nicholson and a series of books about Georgia's younger cousin: The Misadventures of Tallulah Casey.
In a statement, HarperCollins said: "Nobody wrote for teenagers like she did, she understood them, their lives and their extraordinary and powerful friendships. In life, as in her writing, she brought joy and laughter. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and the readers whose lives she has touched for almost 20 years."
Nov 19 2015
The National Book Foundation has announced the 2015 winners of the National Book Awards:
Fiction: Adam Johnson, Fortune Smiles: Stories (Random House (USA))
Non-Fiction: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (Spiegel & Grau / Penguin Random House)
Poetry: Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage Of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf)
Young People's Literature: Neal Shusterman, Challenger Deep Dreaming (HarperCollins Children's Books)
Jul 21 2015
Harper Lee's Go Set a Watchman has sold 1.1 million digital and physical copies in North America in its first week. HarperCollins says that Watchman is now the fastest-selling book in its history and has already reprinted multiple times so there are now 3.3 million copies in print with print outselling electronic versions by 2-to-1 - the opposite sales pattern to most fiction works.
Jul 07 2015
Author Lawrence Hill has been appointed to the Order of Canada for his writing representing black history in Canada and for his charitable efforts to help girls and women in Africa through the Aminata Fund, named for The Book of Negroes (published in the USA as Someone Knows My Name) protagonist. Hill’s latest novel, The Illegal, is due from HarperCollins Canada in September.
May 01 2015
President Obama has announced two initiatives intended to "strengthen learning opportunities by improving access to digital content and to public libraries."
In the first initiative, major publishers including Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Penguin Random House, Hachette, HarperCollins, Candlewick and Bloomsbury will provide e-books valued at over $250m for use by low-income students.
In the second, the New York Public Library, with financial support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, is developing an e-reader app for low-income families that will provide age-appropriate book collections to low-income students aged 4-18; and various agencies including a network of librarians will volunteer to help get the books to the intended audience.
In addition, 30 communities have committed to the ConnectED Library Challenge which aims to ensure that every student has a library card.
Apr 14 2015
Contrary to concern last week that Amazon and HarperCollins were heading for an impasse that would lead to the delisting of all HarperCollins (as happened to Hachette last year), HarperCollins issued a brief statement yesterday saying it had "reached an agreement with Amazon and our books will continue to be available on the Amazon print and digital platforms."
Apr 09 2015
HarperCollins is "preparing to return" to an agency model for all e-book sales from April 14 which requires retailers to sell at prices set by the publisher.
Last week, Business Insider, which is partly owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, said that the current contract between HarperCollins and Amazon will soon expire and that "HarperCollins is refusing to sign an agreement with the new terms that Amazon is asking."
Apparently Amazon has offered an agreement like the ones signed last year by Hachette, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan. Business Insider added, "If HarperCollins and Amazon don't come to an agreement, no print or digital HarperCollins books will be available on Amazon once its existing contract runs out 'very soon'."
In the last year, HarperCollins has made inroads into selling direct to consumers which may help protect it somewhat if Amazon retaliate by stopping all sales of HarperCollins titles, as they did for Hachette last year. HarperCollins imprints include Harper, William Morrow, Avon, Ecco, Harlequin, Thomas Nelson and Zondervan.
Oct 08 2014
In its first foray into foreign-language publishing, HarperCollins is creating HarperCollins Germany with a first list of 50 titles. The new operation is an expansion of the Harlequin publishing program in Hamburg, which will provide the resources to support the HarperCollins titles.
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