New ebook marketing and publishing start-up
By Paul Biba
From the Publishers Lunch e-newsletter. Thanks to Michael von Glahn for the heads up:
Documents filed with the SEC on Friday indicate that former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman has raised $3 million from Bay Area Holdings Inc., a fund of venture capital firm Kohlberg Ventures, for her new company, OpenRoad Integrated Media LLC. Jeff Sharp, an independent movie producer, and Chris Lederer, former CMO at HarperCollins, are listed as executives of OpenRoad, which lists a Spring Street address for its offices. Reiter, Kailas & Rosenblatt represented OpenRoad, described on the law firm’s website as “a start-up entity which is engaged in developing a platform for eBook marketing and publishing.”
August 24th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Nice piece of change to promote eBooks. With that kind of capital, I’d think they’d have to go after the big boys rather than mess with small publishers but who knows. I could certainly use $3 Million in promotion.
Rob Preece
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