HarperCollins deal start of trend? Big conglomerates to snap up little e-related publishers like The Friday Project?
Ellora’s Cave arranged with S&S a while back for the bigger house to publish and distribute some titles in P.
What’s next? Acquisitions of small E-related publishers, by giant conglomerates, trying to break out of the old mold? Might a worsening economy bring on this trend? Or delay it?
In any event, HarperCollins U.K. has just bought The Friday Project, at least in part a blog-to-book operation.
While I was visiting the TFP site, by the way, I noticed a freebie excerpt from John Higgs’ well-received biography of LSD experimenter Timothy Leary called I have America Surrounded—just the first 69 pages but still intriguing.
Download the PDF here. U.S. edition can be ordered via Amazon.
(Via The Bookseller.)
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