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With Foreward By George Clooney And “Lost Photos” Of The Cast At Work And Play Newly Discovered In The Universal Studios Vault

(NEW YORK, NY, May 14th) Jane Friedman, Co-Founder and CEO of Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), announced today that it will release Kirk Douglas’ 10^th book and his first E-riginal, I Am Spartacus! Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist, with Foreword by George Clooney on June 12, 2012. The title ...

Nashville, TN - Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, has selected Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source, Ingram Content Group companies, to distribute print versions of a group of its e-books. The program will begin in March 2012.

"As a digital company, we have not distributed print editions of our e-books. Working with Ingram Publisher Services and Lightning Source allows us to stay focused on publishing our e-books," said Christopher Davis, Chief Operating Officer, Open Road Integrated Media. "Since our inception, we have offered print-on-demand versions of all our E-riginals and of ...

In “The Man in the Empty Boat,” Salzman Confronts a Challenging Year With A Sense of Humor And Hope For Personal Peace 

(New York, NY – February 13th , 2012) Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that it is digitally publishing an E-riginal from award-winning and best-selling writer Mark Salzman. In the memoir The Man in the Empty Boat, a book of love and family, loss and enlightenment, Salzman confronts a year of catastrophe in which he suffers from acute anxiety and debilitating panic attacks all compounded by the sudden ...

LEIGH BOWERY: The Life and Times of an Icon by Sue Tilley

Now Available as an Ebook from Open Road Integrated Media (on sale: March 15, 2011)

Before there was Lady Gaga, there was Leigh Bowery.

Leigh Bowery was one of the most controversial and avant-garde performers of his generation. He influenced nearly every element of contemporary pop culture from Lady Gaga to Boy George, yet the average citizen has never heard of him.  Until now. In addition to the West End and Broadway musical Taboo inspired by Leigh’s life, a feature film adaptation is in the works with ...

Selected as Sundance Film Festival Opening Night Film, Kohlberg’s THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED Will Open in Theaters March 18^th

 HOME IN THE MORNING by Debut Novelist Mary Glickman is Open Road’s First E-Riginal to Head to Big Screen

(New York, NY – March 8, 2011) Jane Friedman, CEO and co-founder of Open Road Integrated Media, today announced that director/producer Jim Kohlberg (THE MUSIC NEVER STOPPED) has optioned Mary Glickman’s debut novel HOME IN THE MORNING, for feature film adaptation.   Open Road president and co-founder Jeffrey Sharp (BOYS DON’T CRY, YOU CAN COUNT ON ME, PROOF and EVENING) will executive ...

Now available as an Ebook from Open Road Integrated Media (on sale: February 22, 2011)

An adrenaline-fueled travel memoir of life in the wild among the planet’s most ferocious and fascinating predators

Over the past forty years, bestselling science-fiction writer Alan Dean Foster has journeyed around the globe to encounter nature’s most fearsome creatures. His travels have taken him into the heart of the Amazon rain forest on the trail of deadly tangarana ants, on an elephant ride across the sweeping green plains of central India in search of the elusive Bengal tiger, and into the waters of the ...

In a career spanning decades, Mitchell B. Reiss has been at the center of some of America’s most sensitive diplomatic negotiations. He is internationally recognized for his efforts to forge peace in Northern Ireland and to stem the nuclear crisis in North Korea. In Negotiating with Evil, Reiss distills his experience to answer two questions that are more vital today than ever: Should we talk to terrorists? And if we do, how should we conduct the negotiations in order to gain what we want?

Over the past three years, Reiss has traveled to some of the world’s hotbeds of terrorist ...