HarperCollins Makes Equity Investment in Digital Publisher NewsStand

Authored by Mark Hefflinger on January 12, 2007 - 8:20am.

New York - HarperCollins Publishers announced on Friday that it has made an undisclosed equity investment in NewsStand, a provider of digital book publishing services.

The companies said they will share technology and resources to help bring more book content online with "comprehensive control," offering services including digital typesetting, production, warehousing, distribution and online marketing.

NewsStand entered into a multi-year partnership with HarperCollins in 2006; HarperCollins has thus far digitized 10,000 books, and enable "Browse Inside" functionality for several thousand.

"Publishers around the world have asked us to include their books in our digital warehouse and to make those titles available with our Browse Inside application," said Murray. "By applying the lessons we have learned with our first 10,000 digitized titles, HarperCollins and NewsStand have developed a turn-key digital solution to manage the digital publishing process from editorial to consumer."

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Published in DMW Daily, January 12, 2007

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Submitted by Sramana Mitra (not verified) on January 12, 2007 - 11:53am.

Please read this article on the future of eBooks, in the context of your post: http://sramanamitra.com/blog/486.