harper collins

Starbucks is launching a new digital network Wednesday that it says will give customers access to free e-books, movies and access to some paid news sites. The move is meant to attract customers and customer loyalty, and also to provide Starbucks with a new revenue stream.

Skirting campaign finance laws, News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch, has found an entirely legal way to put millions of dollars directly into the bank accounts of leading Republican candidates like Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin. He hires them.

Excerpt from Gilded Lily: Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows by Isabel Vincent ©HarperCollins Publishers, 2010 ($25.99) In Vincent's book (read DailyFinance's review here), Edmond Safra's widow has always yearned to live an extravagant lifestyle -- one that few...

The unauthorized biography of billionaire Lily Safra is a tale of one of the world's richest and most elegant women -- a jet-setter who socializes in the same elite circles as Prince Charles and Elton John. What is so fascinating, however, is exactly how Safra was able to climb her way to the top.

The ongoing battle for internet bookselling heated up on Thursday. Walmart (WMT) CEO Raul Vasquez is trash-talking Amazon (AMZN) CEO Jeff Bezos (pictured), according to the New York Post: "If there's going to be a Walmart on the Web," Vasquez said, "it's going to be Walmart.com." Oooh -- it's...

It's odd to hear people use the term "gateway Bible," as if scripture is an addictive drug that can be pushed on an unsuspecting dupe. However, that is exactly the term that is being used to describe Bible Illuminated, a glossy, coffee-table style version of the New Testament that is coming to the...

Many of us harbor the ambition to write novels (and some of us, such as WalletPop's Tobias Buckell, have several in print already). Part of the dream for me is making enough money to allow me to concentrate strictly on fiction. Unfortunately, that dream is becoming less and less feasible. Two...