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“Good Reads, Smart Readers: A New View of e-Books”
 

Jane Friedman on her new company, Open Road Integrated Media

Jane Friedman is the co-founder and CEO of Open Road Integrated Media, a new company that will produce and market e-books as well as accompanying documentary clips and trailers. The innovative publishing pioneer—and former CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide—spoke to an audience of NYU-SCPS Center for Publishing students and faculty and industry insiders about her new venture, marketing e-books, and the future of publishing.

Jane Friedman, CEO and Co-Founder of Open Road Integrated Media. Friedman served as president and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide, one of the world's leading English-language publishers and a subsidiary of News Corporation, from November 1997 through June 2008. Friedman, who earned a B.A. in English from New York University in 1967, came to HarperCollins from Random House, where she was executive vice president of Random House Inc., executive vice president of the Knopf Publishing Group, publisher of Vintage Books, and founder and president of Random House Audio Publishing. Read Jane Friedman's full biography at the Open Road Media website.