jane friedman

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 1:20PM 10/14/2009
    As foreshadowed here and foretweeted here, former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman is back in the publishing business with a new e-books venture. Open Road Integrated Media is backed by $3 million in private equity money from Kohlberg Ventures. Joining Friedman in the start-up is Jeffrey Sharp, an...

    By Jeff Bercovici

    | 6:00PM 8/25/2009
    There is life after Rupert Murdoch. Jane Friedman, the former HarperCollins CEO who left abruptly last year amid rumors she'd been forced out, has returned to the book-publishing world in a well-funded new venture. Friedman has raised $3 million for a start-up called OpenRoad Integrated Media, a...