London, April 17th 2012 - Mondadori and Open Road
Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia
content company announced today from The London Book Fair
that they have formed an international digital publishing
partnership. Open Road will digitize, distribute and market
english language versions of titles from Mondadori's
catalog starting with 50 ebooks. Mondadori is Open
Road's first foreign publishing partner and this
announcement kicks off Open Road's International
Publishing Partner Program.
Jane Friedman cofounder and CEO of Open Road said:
"The rise of digital publishing has made the world a
smaller place and we are now able to quickly and
efficiently publish translations of international books.
Open Road is committed to working with international
publishers to bring
works from foreign countries to a wider audience than they
have ever had before. We are excited to build on the
success we have enjoyed with our American partners and to
start our international publishing program with
Mondadori."
"Thanks to the digital revolution," said Maurizio
Costa, deputy chairman and chief executive of the Mondadori
Group, "geographical barriers are falling and the
publisher is increasingly becoming also the promoter of its
authors, not only at the national level, but also
internationally. To publish in English the works of our
most prestigious Italian authors," Costa continued,
"is a source of pride and satisfaction for Mondadori.
Thanks to our commitment to digital and our partnership
with Open Road, we can finally offer our authors direct
access to the biggest market in the world."
Open Road will digitally market all of the titles in the
partnership. The company will create original marketing
videos that will be distributed through its online platform
and syndicated to content partners.
This announcement takes Open Road's publishing partners
program global. Since its launch, Open Road has worked with
a variety of American publishers including
MysteriousPress.com, Pegasus Books and Albert Whitman &
Company.
The ebooks will be on sale globally starting this summer
from Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, BarnesandNoble.com,
Google/IndieBound, Kobo Books,OverDrive, and the Sony
Reader Store.
Open Road Integrated Media is a digital publisher and
multimedia content company. Open Road creates connections
between authors and their audiences by marketing its ebooks
through a new proprietary online platform, which uses
premium video content and social media. Open Road
has published ebooks from legendary authors including
William Styron, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker, Jean Craighead
George, Bette Greene, and Virginia Hamilton.
The Mondadori Group is among the most important publishing
houses in Europe and is Italy's biggest publisher of
books through its publishing houses Edizioni Mondadori,
Einaudi, Piemme and Sperling & Kupfer. Its wide-ranging
production covers all market segments, including the ebook
market.
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