Random House of Canada launches new digital strategy with Hazlitt
Posted: August 30, 2012
Random House of Canada launches a new online magazine that shows their ability to change and grow in the changing publishing world.
Random House of Canada launches a new online magazine that shows their ability to change and grow in the changing publishing world.
With newspapers and magazines entering the world of book publishing — the National Post, for instance, launched a line of e-books in 2011 — perhaps it should come as no surprise that book publishers are entering the world of magazines and newspapers.
On Thursday, Random House of Canada launched Hazlitt, an online magazine that anchors the company’s new digital strategy and transforms the company’s previously moribund website into a new publication featuring original content from established and emerging writers.
“The founding premise of the magazine is that good writers, good voices, can make any topic interesting,” said Robert Wheaton, the company’s vice president and director of strategic digital business development, at a presentation unveiling the website earlier this week.
Wheaton said the magazine, under the direction of editor-in-chief Christopher Frey, will feature both household names and up-and-coming writers. A glance at the website Thursday revealed articles by the likes of Hari Kunzru, Sarah Nicole Prickett, and the late Christopher Hitchens. Frey described the magazine, named after the 19th century critic and journalist William Hazlitt, as “absurdly eclectic” and “writer-centric.”
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