[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Trade and Reference, Has Signed Our Agreement
- From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:44:30 -0800
Hi, Alisa, that's really something. Now it looks like we volunteers will
have to be more creative on the scanning and proofreading ends. Regards,
Kim Friedman.
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Subject: [bksvol-discuss] FW: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Trade and
Reference, Has Signed Our Agreement
From: Robin Seaman
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 2:13 PM
To: Bookshare Team
Subject: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Trade and Reference, Has Signed Our
Agreement
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the acclaimed publisher of fiction,
nonfiction, nature guides, cookbooks, children's books and reference
guides, based in Boston, Massachusetts, has signed our agreement for
their Trade and Reference Division. We will be distributing their
titles in the U.S. only, although they have given us rights to
distribute internationally in countries where we have official nonprofit
status. They have advised us that once a smooth working relationship
has been established with the Trade and Reference Division, they will
approach their K-12 Division (one of the Big Three in K-12 publishing)
about making their core textbooks available through Bookshare.
HMH has a backlist of over 8,000 titles, of which 2,366 titles have been
converted to EPUB and have just been uploaded by LibreDigital (who
delivers S&S, HarperCollins, and Harlequin titles to Bookshare) with
metadata in ONIX delivered by Firebrand. They publish 400 books a year.
In addition, under our agreement, we will be receiving titles from HMH?s
two digital distribution clients, Harvard Common Press (cookbooks and
parenting) and Zest Books (edgy nonfiction books for teens).
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt traces its roots back to 1832, when William
Ticknor and James Fields established a publishing company that by the
mid-nineteenth century included some of the most renowned names in
American literature, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, and
Henry David Thoreau. Over the decades, Houghton Mifflin has published
Willa Cather, Carson McCullers, Philip Roth, Paul Theroux, Robert Stone,
Jhumpa Lahiri, and Jonathan Safran Foer ? and the estate of J.R.R.
Tolkien. With the acquisition of Harcourt Education in 2007, they
inherited a list dating back to 1919 that included Sinclair Lewis,
Virginia Woolf, George Orwell, C. S. Lewis, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Robert Lowell, T. S. Eliot, and Robert Penn Warren. In 1961, Helen and
Kurt Wolff became Harcourt's co-publishers, bringing in such luminaries
as Günter Grass, Hannah Arendt, and Konrad Lorenz. A mainstay of
literature in translation, Harcourt later published such celebrated
international authors as Italo Calvino, Umberto Eco, A.B. Yehoshua, and
Nobel Prize winners Octavio Paz and José Saramago. HMH also publishes
the American Heritage® dictionaries, the Best American® series, and the
Peterson Field Guides.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children's Book Group publishes such great
contemporary authors and illustrators as Chris Van Allsburg, Lois Lowry,
Steve Jenkins, Joyce Sidman, Brian Lies, Sy Montgomery, and Allen Say.
Houghton Mifflin is also home to some of the best-loved children's book
characters: Curious George, Lyle the Crocodile, George and Martha,
Martha of Martha Speaks, and Tacky the Penguin.
HMH Publishing
http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/home
About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/home/about
About Harvard Common Press (Boston)
http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/
About Zest Books (San Francisco)
http://www.zestbooks.net/store/
Robin
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