booktwo.org (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
HarperCollins have just launched their online slushpile site, authonomy.com, in private beta. Authonomy allows budding authors to upload chapters of their work for the rest of the community to read and comment on. There’s been a lot of speculation about how this would be implemented, and at first sight it looks pretty good - HC haven't [...]
Eoin Purcell's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Eoin Purcell Booktwo gives us a quick review of Authonomy (have a beta invite myself, will say more soon). Here Michael over at The Digitalist talks about the danger of hype for e-books. (Read the Comments) Here Smashwords is coming. I’ve seen this a bit and talked with the developers. Nice little program. Here
PersonaNonData (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
Harpercollins produced revenues of $302mm in their 3rd quarter ended March 31st which compared favorably with the same period last year ($291mm). For the nine months, revenues continue to lag the performance in 2007. 2008 YTD revenues of $1,038mm are marginally lower by $14mm. Operating income as described in NewsCorp's press release was as follows: HarperCollins reported third quarter operating income...
