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Open Road Integrated Media or ORIM (also called Open Road) is a digital media company located in New York City that was created by Jane Friedman and Jeffrey Sharp in 2009 with a focus on publishing ebook editions of older works of literature and nonfiction. In addition to its ebook publishing business, Open Road Integrated Media is the parent company of book publisher Open Road Media, and content brands Early Bird Books, The Lineup, and The Portalist.
Media veteran Paul Slavin joined the company as president in 2015 and was named CEO in 2016.
History
Former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman and award-winning film producer Jeffrey Sharp launched Open Road Integrated Media with the goal of bringing great backlist books back to life in digital formats and partnering with writers of contemporary and classic works. The Open Road Media catalog includes bestselling and award-winning authors, such as William Styron, Pat Conroy, Alice Walker, John Ashbery, Octavia Butler, Robin McKinley, Michael Chabon, Sherman Alexie, Pearl S. Buck, and Dee Brown.
After acquiring the content of independent publishers E-Reads and Premier Digital in 2014, and signing deals with other publishers and authors, the Open Road Media catalog expanded to 10,000 titles by 2015.
In 2016 it partnered with OverDrive, Inc. and Digital Journal described it as award-winning.