In Soho, A Digital Start-up From the Book World

When Jane Friedman and Jeff Sharp first became business partners several years ago at HarperCollins, they sought to join the eye of a Hollywood film producer for a striking image and the ear of a publishing executive for evocative language. The pair have since carried that approach forward with the creation late last year of Open Road Integrated Media. Today, the setting is a Soho loft, and not a midtown tower, so the not-so-surprising foundation for ORIM is the new world of electronic book publishing. Open Road's Chief Marketing Officer Rachel Chou discusses with Beyond The Book host Chris Kenneally why the coming book publishing revolution will likely not mean that reading gets interrupted by a movie.