{"id":256386,"date":"2007-09-26T21:32:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T21:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2007\/09\/26\/harlequin-is-on-the-cutting-edge\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:36:22","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:36:22","slug":"harlequin-is-on-the-cutting-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2007\/09\/26\/harlequin-is-on-the-cutting-edge\/","title":{"rendered":"Harlequin is on the Cutting Edge?"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the CBC<\/a><\/p>\n

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Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian-based romance publisher, said it will make all its new titles available online for downloading.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“It’s every single line, every single title, so it’s over 120 titles a month,” Malle Vallik, Harlequin’s director of digital content, told Quill & Quire magazine, an industry publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Harlequin will become the first Canadian publisher to do such a thing, Vallik said. The company thought the move was necessary to be relevant to younger readers who can download to laptops or cellphones, she added.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

No indication of what the cost will be to the reader, but I’m psyched that I’ll be able to read Speed Dating<\/i> and the rest of the NASCAR<\/span> series on my laptop . . . too bad there’s not more Vampire Romances in the Harlequin pantheon . . .<\/p>\n

But seriously—aside from Soft Skull and BOA<\/span> Editions on Wowio—are there any publishers of literary fiction out there who are making all their books available via download? I have my issues with the digital future of publishing, but this seems simple, natural, and worth experimenting with at least. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the CBC Harlequin Enterprises, the Canadian-based romance publisher, said it will make all its new titles available online for downloading. “It’s every single line, every single title, so it’s over 120 titles a month,” Malle Vallik, Harlequin’s director of digital content, told Quill & Quire magazine, an industry publication. Harlequin will become the first […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,586],"class_list":["post-256386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-future-of-the-book"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362016,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256386\/revisions\/362016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}