Readers Can’t Digest – Week 6 (15-Sep to 21-Sep) September 23, 2014 by punjacked | 1 Comment 1. Sale of Joan Rivers’ book sky rocketed following her death on 4th September. It saw a 570% increase in sales in 1 week. 2. HarperCollins will add new invisible watermarks to its ebooks to battle piracy. The watermark will be invisible to the reader, but will enable HarperCollins to track any copies which appear online. 3. Tom Hiddleston has signed on to play the lead role in the sequel to King Kong’s 2005 remake. The movie will be called ‘Skull Island’. 4. HarperCollins and HarperCollins Christian Publishing will offer expedited shipping from November 3 through January 16. This is a part of HarperCollins’ newly introduced Holiday Express Shipping program for independent bookstores. 5. Protests are mounting against the rumored closure of Paris’s oldest book store, Delamain. The book store was created in 1900 and moved into its current premises in 1906. Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Like this:Like Loading... Related
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