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Open Road Media and Albert have just released the first 19 titles in the beloved and classic children’s series The Boxcar Children Mysteries as ebooks.  With more then 125 titles written and over 50 million in print, The Boxcar Children Mysteries is one of the best-loved and enduring children’s series of all time.  

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, announced that it has launched nine illustrated books on Apple’s iBookstore to read on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch. Of more than one hundred illustrated ebooks that Apple recently added to its iBookstore, nine are Open Road/Albert Whitman titles. The ebooks are currently available on the iPad, iPod touch, and iPhone through the Apple iBooks app.

Earlier this fall, Open Road announced it was entering the children’s publishing arena with 150 titles in Albert Whitman’s The Boxcar Children ...

Open Road Media is proud to release seven ebooks from the backlist of acclaimed author Scott Spencer.

Scott Spencer is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of ten novels, including the National Book Award finalists Endless Love (1979) and A Ship Made of Paper (2003).

Ebooks available from Amazon.com, the Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo Books, and the Sony Reader Store on November 23, 2010: Endless Love, Last Night at the Brain Thieves Ball, Men in Black, Preservation Hall, Rich Man’s Table, Secret Anniversaries, Waking the Dead

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Open Road Integrated Media is digitally publishing nine titles from the backlist of acclaimed writer Andre Dubus.

Andre Dubus (1936–1999) is considered one of the greatest American short story writers of the twentieth century. His collections of short fiction, which include Adultery & Other Choices (1977), The Times Are Never So Bad (1983), and The Last Worthless Evening (1986), are notable for their spare prose and illuminative, albeit subtle, insights into the human heart. He is often compared to Anton Chekhov and revered as a “writer’s writer.”

The Open Road ebook editions, on sale November 23, are available wherever ebooks are ...

Open Road Integrated Media Expands Its Iconic Pat Conroy Ebook Collection With The Release of His 1970 Literary Debut—The Boo

ORIM Will Collaborate With Conroy to Adapt The Boo Into a Feature Film or Television Production

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, announced today that it is continuing its Pat Conroy ebook collection by digitally publishing his 1970 literary debut, The Boo, in North America. Open Road already publishes Conroy’s The Prince of Tides, The Lords of Discipline, The Great Santini...

Open Road Media is proud to release eight ebooks from the backlist of acclaimed author and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias.

In this stunning literary debut, a Jewish family in Mississippi tries to survive the tumultuous ‘60s and the secrets that will bind them together—and keep them apart.

Jackson Sassaport is a man who often finds himself in the middle. Whether torn between Stella, his beloved and opinionated Yankee wife, and Katherine Marie, the African American girl who first stole his teenage heart; or between standing up for his beliefs and acquiescing to his prominent Jewish family’s imperative to not stand out in the segregated South, Jackson learns to balance the secrets and deceptions of those around him. But one fateful ...

Classic children's collections—now available as ebooks

Open Road Integrated Media is releasing its first children’s ebooks on November 2 with three classic works from twentieth-century literary master John Gardner, whose children’s titles The New York Times Book Review called a “fanciful, witty collection.” Open Road Media previously launched fifteen of Gardner’s adult fiction and nonfiction titles as ebooks on September 21. Open Road has also released an embeddable video featuring illustrator Michael Sporn speaking about John Gardner’s work.

Open Road to Digitize, Distribute, and Market Select Titles from Delphinium’s Catalog as Ebooks

Launch Ebooks to Include Joseph Caldwell’s Pig Trilogy and William H. Davidow’s Overconnected

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, and Delphinium Books, a small publishing house devoted to distinctive fiction and nonfiction in hardcover and paperback, announced today that they have formed a digital publishing partnership. The announcement was made by Jane Friedman, CEO and Cofounder of Open Road, and Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, Editorial Director of Delphinium Books.

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2010 Norman Mailer Distinguished Journalism Prize-winner Ruth Gruber's Books Are Now Available As Ebooks

Selected titles from award-winning Jewish American journalist,photographer, humanitarian, and author Ruth Gruber’s influential and timeless backlist are finally available as ebooks.  Gruber was born in Brooklyn in 1911 and went on to become the youngest person to receive a PhD, in 1932. She went on to author nineteen books, including the National Jewish Book Award–winning biography Raquela (1978). She ...

The E-Riginal Will Be a 60,000-Word Novel Written Live in Public by Thirty-Six Pacific Northwest Authors in Six Days

at Richard Hugo House in Seattle

Event Made Possible with a Grant from Amazon.com 

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, announced today that it will digitally publish the novel being written now in Seattle by thirty-six authors as part of The Novel: Live!, a marathon writing session presented by Seattle7Writers and Richard Hugo House....

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors ...

Open Road Integrated Media and Albert Whitman & Company jointly announced today that they will be publishing all titles from Whitman’s beloved children’s series The Boxcar Children® Mysteries as ebooks, with the first nineteen made available for Christmas 2010. Created by Gertrude Chandler Warner who wrote the first nineteen books, The ...

Open Road Integrated Media, a digital content company that publishes and markets ebooks by creating connections between authors and their audiences, announced today that Barbara Marcus, former President, Scholastic Children’s Book Publishing and Distribution and Executive Vice President, Scholastic Inc., will join the company as an adviser for children’s publishing. Marcus will help spearhead Open Road’s entrance into the children’s market. She will also help further Open Road’s international business development and consult on general strategic issues. ...