[bksvol-discuss] Re: FW: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Trade and Reference, Has Signed Our Agreement
- From: Debby Franson <the.bee@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:14:34 -0600
Hi Alisa and Robin!
Thanks again. I found the history interesting.
Debby
At 04:32 PM 3/6/2012, Alisa Moore wrote
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>http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/home
About Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
<http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/home/about>http://www.hmhbooks.com/hmh/site/hmhbooks/home/about
About Harvard Common Press (Boston)
<http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/>http://www.harvardcommonpress.com/
About Zest Books (San Francisco)
<http://www.zestbooks.net/store/>http://www.zestbooks.net/store/
Robin
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Robin Seaman | Director of Content Acquisition | Bookshare, A Benetech
Initiative
480 S. California Avenue, Suite 201, Palo Alto, CA 94306 | (650) 644-3412
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