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Don’t miss Open Road Media CEO Jane Friedman at Digital Book World 2011
on the keynote panel on Tuesday, January 25.

From 9:00 – 10:00 am, “A CEO’s View of the Future” will feature Jane alongside Brian Napack (Macmillan), David Steinberger (Perseus), Michael Hyatt (Thomas Nelson), and David Nussbaum (F+W Media). Have a look at what to expect (via DBW):

Digital Book World 2011 will present an exclusive panel discussion featuring senior executives from some of the largest, most innovative and successful media companies today.

During the panel, each executive will offer practical insights into what’s worked (and what hasn’t) ...

Open Road Media is proud to release multiple ebook titles from the backlists of several of the biggest, bestselling names in the world of suspense.

With a combined total of more than 325 published novels to their credit, in addition to countless short stories, screenplays, articles and more, Lawrence Block, Stephen Coonts, Carl Hiaasen, Jack Higgins, Jonathon King, Ruth Rendell, Robert K. Tanenbaum, and Don Winslow give new meaning to the term "bestselling author."

Download a PDF of the full press release here.

Author Mary Monroe wasn't born with the strong, powerful voice that today is so inseparable from her image.

"My own family had to deal with racism on such an extreme level: we were called names, we got chased out of a few places, and so forth," she explains.

In this video, watch the Oakland storyteller share her own story—the story of a child born into an illiterate family who began writing narratives in secret at age seven. See Monroe explain how writing empowers her and how she draws inspiration from books and her environment.

Clinton Stark attended the Churchill Club event with William Davidow and Geoffrey Moore on Tuesday, January 11, in Silicon Valley. The article he produced, the introduction of which is excerpted below, is a great primer on Davidow's Overconnected:

"No large, tightly connected system can be made safe. 930,000 derivative contracts remained outstanding when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt. In 2009 Susan Boyle’s rendition of a Les Mis song circled the globe twice… before she even finished singing it.

These are just some of the ideas and examples that arose last night at a lively event hosted by Churchill Club in ...

So many of the published voices here at Open Road are those of consummate "writer's writers," whose processes and methods have long been the stuff of interviews, textbooks, and course reading lists.

To celebrate those voices, watch this gathering of a handful of our writers—each with an utterly distinct style and writing life. We are honored to publish the ebooks of writers like Pat Conroy, Andre Dubus, Stanley Elkin, John Gardner, Josephine Hart, Susan Minot, and William Styron.

We present masters of prose who have gone digital—and remained, most assuredly, classic.