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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.
Aug 01 2014
HarperCollins' parent company News Corp has completed its acquisition of Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million in cash from Torstar Corporation. Harlequin, best known as a publisher of women's fiction, will now operate as a division of HarperCollins.
May 21 2014
Simon & Schuster is to make its backlist of ebook titles available via Oyster and Scribd. Both services offer flat rate plans allowing subscribers to download an unlimited number of books each month for $9.95 (Oyster) and $8.99 (Scribd). HarperCollins and Wiley already participate in both programs
May 02 2014
News Corp. is buying Harlequin Enterprises from Torstar Corporation for $415 million in cash and will make it a division of HarperCollins. Harlequin's headquarters will remain in Toronto, as will the offices of HarperCollins Canada.
Oct 01 2013
Scribd, a digital distribution, document storage and book discovery platform, is launchng a subscription e-book service that will give users access to an unlimited number of books for $8.99 a month. The all-you-can-read service can be accessed by all smartphone, tablet and laptop device platforms and will offer thousands of backlist books to subscribers—including a majority of the HarperCollins' backlist—as well as the opportunity to buy titles directly.
Sep 09 2013
Oyster, a book subscription service that launched a few days ago, provides an all-you-can-read experience for a monthly fee of $9.95 a month. Currently Oyster offers 100,000 titles including books from from HarperCollins, Workman, Melville House, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Oyster is concentrating on making a seamless app for smartphones and is currently in invitation only mode. Those interested can visit Oyster to add themselves to the invitation wait-list.
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