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“Corbett writes with an intensity of feeling. . . . Without compromising the stark realism of his bruising style.” —New York Times Book Review

Open Road Media announces the ebook publication of three gripping fiction titles by David Corbett, to be released on May 15, 2012. Drawing on his past experience as a private detective, Corbett spins award-winning tales of crime and redemption.

Corbett’s highly praised debut, The Devil’s Redhead, tells the story of Dan, a talented photographer and marijuana smuggler. He and his girlfriend, Shel, plot one final score—but Dan lands in jail, taking the fall for ...

“In this remarkable collection . . . the spirit of Hemingway lives on.” —The Wall Street Journal

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of F.X. Toole's short story collection, Million Dollar Baby: Stories from the Corner.

F. X. Toole was the pseudonym of Jerry Boyd (1930–2002), a boxing trainer and author whose work inspired the award-winning film Million Dollar Baby. In 1988, Boyd began writing about boxing, using the pseudonym F. X. Toole to keep his hobby secret from his colleagues in the boxing world.

Published two years before his death and initially titled Rope ...

For the first time since his groundbreaking novels were released eighty years ago, James Hilton’s iconic classics are available as ebooks in the United States. The instant popularity of Hilton’s works launched the paperback revolution and they have been adapted for the stage, radio, and screen during Hollywood’s Golden Era of the 1930s and ’40s.

Hilton is best known for his historical fiction set during World War I and World War II. His classic titles Goodbye Mr. Chips and To You, Mr. Chips recount the story of a British schoolteacher whose life and lessons are swept up by the change ...

“Over the past half century, James MacGregor Burns has emerged as America’s wise man on the interplay between politics and leadership.” —David Gergen, CNN Senior Political Analyst

Available April 10, 2012

Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com,
Google eBookstore/IndieBound, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and Sony Reader Store

Open Road Integrated Media announces the release of four ebooks by celebrated American historian James MacGregor Burns, winner of both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. These new titles include Leadership, his definitive book on the greatest leaders in world history, and his acclaimed American Experiment series, a three-volume history of American ...

Former Senior Editor at G. P. Putnam’s Sons Will Help Expand Open Road’s Fast-Growing Children’s Publishing Program

Travaglini Has Worked with a Wide Range of Bestselling and Award-Winning Authors and Illustrators Including Michael Rex, Laini Taylor, Michael P. Spradlin, and D. M. Cornish

Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that Timothy Travaglini has joined the company as Director of Children’s Acquisitions. Travaglini will help expand Open Road’s ebook acquisition program for backlist children’s titles spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books. He will also be involved in the acquisition of ...

“She is a consummate stylist and, to my mind, the most gifted woman now writing fiction in English.” —Philip Roth

Open Road Integrated Media announces the ebook publication of two titles by celebrated author Edna O’Brien, who has been hailed as one of the greatest chroniclers of the female experience in the twentieth century. Her numerous accolades include: the 2011 Frank O’Connor Prize, Irish PEN Award for Literature, the Ulysses Medal from University College Dublin, and a lifetime achievement award from the Irish Literary Academy.

O’Brien’s August Is a Wicked Month follows Ellen, an Irish woman separated from her ...

Enhanced Version of Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times Will Feature Rare Video Footage, Audio Clips and Photos

(January 17th, 2011) Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today on Muhammad Ali's birthday, that it will publish an enhanced ebook of Thomas Hauser's definitive biography Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times. The enhanced ebook will feature rare video footage, audio clips and photos authorized by Muhammad Ali Enterprises. The traditional ebook will be available at all etailers on February 14th, the same date that the enhanced editions will be on Apple, Barnes and Noble ...

Open Road Integrated Media announces the publication of five ebooks by Michael Chabon on December 20, 2011. Chabon is an acclaimed and bestselling author whose works include the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. One of America’s most distinctive voices, Chabon has been called “a magical prose stylist” by New York Times Book Review, and is known for his lively writing, nostalgia for bygone modes of storytelling, and deep empathy for the human predicament. His new-to-e works include novels The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys, story collections A Model World and Werewolves ...

Today marks the release of six new ebooks from Pegasus Books and Open Road Media. Featured titles include Fun Inc., a fascinating exploration into the culture, artistic value, and transformative potential of gaming; Germs Gone Wild, a shocking exposé of the unchecked proliferation of domestic biodefense and how it threatens America; Fifty Years of Crime and Suspense, a celebratory anthology of stories published in Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, one of the foremost magazines of mystery and suspense; The Uninnocent, an emotionally enthralling short story collection by one of the most potent voices in contemporary fiction; ...

For the first time ever, three timeless reads by well-known writer Hal Borland are now accessible in digital format. A nature writer for The New York Times, Borland wrote moving, thoughtful memoirs and young adult classics, often exploring the way human life is bound to the natural world. “Borland writes with a grave and simple beauty that is beguiling,” said The New York Times.

When the Legends Die is Borland’s classic bestseller about Thomas Black Bull, an orphaned Native American boy who must walk between the lonesome forest where he was raised and the complicated modern world he ...

For the first time ever, bestselling books by fiction author Eileen Goudge are accessible in digital format. Goudge began her career as a young adult writer, helping to launch the phenomenally successful Sweet Valley High series, and has since become one of the nation’s most successful authors of women’s fiction. In 1986, she published her first adult novel, the New York Times bestseller Garden of Lies, and went on to publish over thirty novels for young adults, thirteen novels of women’s fiction, numerous short stories and magazine articles, and one cookbook. Author Nora Roberts, nicknamed “America’s favorite novelist” by ...

Open Road Media announces the publication of Celebrity, Inc.: How Famous People Make Money by e-original author Jo Piazza available in both print and digital editions.

What does a celebrity baby picture have in common with a drug deal? Why is Kim Kardashian ten times richer than Paris Hilton? What’s an Oscar really worth?  And why does Charlie Sheen keep “winning”?  Jo Piazza, a former gossip columnist for the New York Daily News and a seasoned journalist currently writing for the Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post and Fox News, not only brings her unique expertise and personal economics ...

For the first time ever, eight titles by New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Forster are now accessible in digital format. Forster has written more than thirty novels and been the recipient of countless awards, including the National Reader’s Choice award. She became a household name in the genre with the Loveswept release of her books Wild Honey, Wild Child, and The Devil and Ms. Moody. Trademarks to Forster’s success include her forward-looking interest in high concepts and countercultures, as well as the psychological depth and expertise brought to her characters and their love interests.

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Now, for the first time ever, Open Road Integrated Media will release Summer of My German Soldier, the classic story of a twelve-year-old Jewish girl who befriends a Nazi POW, as an ebook, along with five other titles including its sequel, Morning Is a Long Time Coming, the renowned Philip Hall books and the controversial Drowning of Stephan Jones. The books, which were originally published over the past forty years, will enjoy a new life as ebooks finding a fresh audience among the next generation of young readers.

The themes of these classic ebooks are a reminder ...

On September 13, 2011, Open Road Media and STC Craft | Melanie Falick Books, an imprint of Abrams Books, will release eight bestselling knitting titles as ebooks. The titles will be available from Amazon.com, Apple iBookstore, Barnesandnoble.com, Kobo Books, OverDrive, and Sony Reader Store. 

Whether knitters seek a collection of quick-to-finish knitting projects for gift-giving, a useful reference book, a history of the knitalong or charity knitting efforts, or inspiration for the knitting lifestyle, they’ll find ebooks to meet their needs in this collection of titles by some of the most respected authors in ...