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Maya Reynolds (Free subscription) | yesterday
In June, 2008, after ten years at HarperCollins, Jane Friedman announced she would be leaving her job as CEO prior to the end of her contract and prior to the reporting of another year of lowered profits at HC. In June, 2009, Friedman announced she'd raised $3 million for her new start-up company, OpenRoad, devoted to "developing a platform for eBook marketing and publishing." Earlier this...
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MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yesterday afternoon, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman came to the Center for Publishing , a division of NYU's School for Continuing and Professional Studies, to talk about her new company, Open Road Integrated Media , which aims to publish electronic editions of backlisted titles by big-name authors like William Styron , Pat Conroy , and Iris Murdoch along with, in separate branding tracks,...
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VIC'S RECIPES (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
When I moved back to New York in 1986, there was a bookstore, unfortunately long gone, across the street from our apartment. The first time I wandered in, I found they had their own little lending library; they rented current bestsellers out for a week for $2.00. As I was picking up a book by an author I was unfamiliar with, The Prince of Tides , I heard a soft voice say, "Hello. I'm here to pick...
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Guide to Literary Agents (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Reminder : Newer agents are golden opportunities for new writers because they're likely building their client list; however, always make sure your work is as perfect as it can be before submitting, and only query agencies that are a great fit for your work. Otherwise, you're just wasting time and postage. About Sophia : OK, so Sophia's not technically a "new" agent, but she just moved from...
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Ken Hawkins (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Summary: Mister Charleston himself, Pat Conroy, will be at Blue Bicycle Books on December 12th signing copies of his newest novel, South Of Broad. Link: http://thedigitel.com/node/7206
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FinePrint Literary Management (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
So, we're starting to get some tantalizing glimpses of the where the publishing industry is likely to be in the next couple of years. First of all, Publishers Marketplace reoprted last week on former HarperCollins boss, Jane Friedman who officially announced her new venture Open Road Integrated Media at Frankfurt, though the unit was first reported on in August when her funding of $3 million was disclosed....
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Baxojayz - Centricity (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
loquacious \loh-KWAY-shuhs\, adjective: Very talkative. Full of excessive talk; wordy. Loquacious comes from Latin loquax, "talkative," from loqui, "to speak." Dank Also an expression requently used by stoners and hippies for something of high quality. That borritos was dank, man. or... That borritos was the dankness Trivia When it comes to human hands, which fingernail generally...
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VIC'S RECIPES (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Adapted from Ad Hoc at Home by Thomas Keller Serves 4 I'm a native New Yorker, but when we moved to Atlanta in 1974, it was from St. Louis. I didn't have anything against Missouri; I had lived in Kansas City, Missouri, for two years and loved it. But I never felt at home during the year we lived in St. Louis, so I was glad to head south. Atlanta was a smaller city in those days and different from any...
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Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
I am in the middle of Conroy's new book, South of Broad , which is set in Charleston. Being a Yankee, I had no idea what Benne Wafers were. Here's the recipe. It's nice to know that there are still places in America where ladies routinely have teatime with homemade tea cookies. It is civilized and civilizing, like so many old Southern habits. Regarding other low-country foods, She-Crab Soup is fine...
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Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
Friedman to publish Catch-22 e-book 19.10.09 - The Bookseller Joseph Heller's Catch-22 will be published as an e-book for the first time as part of Jane Friedman's new publishing venture, Open Road Integrated Media . Speaking at the Frankfurt Book Fair last week, the former HarperCollins chief executive described Open Road as a "content marketing company", which creates "enhanced"...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
That’s what Jane Friedman’s new publishing company, Open Road Integrated Media, announced at the Frankfurt Book Fair. The new company will be using “every bit of technology” to market ebooks of past and present authors. Open Road will be selling titles by William Styron, Pat Conroy and Iris Murdoch as well. The [...]
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AdPulp (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
"Ford County is the best writing that John Grisham has ever done." -Pat Conroy Wal-Mart and Amazon are slashing prices on soon to be released hardcover editions of some of the holiday season's potential best sellers, offering them online for $8.99 apiece, according to The New York Times . The titles affected include Sarah Palin's memoir, "Going Rogue" ; John Grisham's short-story...
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Blogcritics: Books (Free subscription) | 10/17/2009
Our Gang Goes Low Country Sponsored Topics: Pat Conroy - Arts - Literature - Gang - Crime
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
"Sixteen months after stepping down as president and chief executive of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, Jane Friedman has formed a new company that will republish old titles by big-name authors including William Styron, Iris Murdoch and Pat Conroy in electronic form."...
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acanite4rf1 | 08/14/2009
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