Harlequin goes digital with all new titles offered as e-books
Women’s fiction publisher Harlequin Enterprises Limited is now making its complete front list catalog – that is, new and current titles – available in the e-book format, the company says. Going forward, each of the more than 120 new titles the publisher releases every month will be available for electronic download at Harlequinbooks.com, according to a company spokesman. The e-books downloads are selling for under $4 per title, roughly the same as the price of the printed paperbacks sold on Harlequin’s site.
Harlequin also is expanding its digital catalog to include original editorial material by New York Times and USA Today best-selling authors, as well as releasing some e-books not available in print. In addition, Harlequin also is offering some downloadable audio files for titles that already exist in the audio format. The company is working on making all titles for which audio versions have been recorded available for digital download in the future, it says.
Harlequin offered its first e-book in 2005. Since then, the company says, romance novels have proven to be a popular category of digital publishing, with Harlequin titles regularly appearing in e-book bestseller lists.
“Women have embraced e-books," says Malle Vallik, director of digital content and interactivity at Harlequin. “They demand probability, immediacy, availability, depth, breadth and convenience, and by making our entire front list and exclusive digital content available to them, we are meeting that challenge.”
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