Harlequin has not benefited from the rise of ebooks despite the huge popularity of romance ebooks.
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Harlequin has begun to figure out how to find mass-market success with ebooks.
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There would also be jigsaw puzzles and old Harlequin romance novels laying about.
Clinging to trees and windows, looking for a place to rest, huge numbers of exotic harlequin ladybirds easily outnumbered the native species.
Brent Lewis, who runs Harlequin's digital business, says his firm's digital readership is composed of the same middle-aged women who read its printed books.
In the following two years, she signed several publishing deals with larger publishers: a deal with Harlequin Teen and a two-book deal with Disney Hyperion.
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For books that attract commercial interest, the company has partnered with publishers like Harlequin to release them through traditional channels, but with more generous royalties.
Type in your demographic information and you'll see a screen listing your free-sample options -- everything from cleaning products to Harlequin romance novels to toiletries.
But in the first quarter of 2013, Harlequin had a handful of hits on the best-seller list, indicating that it might be turning its digital performance around.
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The thieves are a band of Norman mercenaries, including a mysterious warrior who calls himself Harlequin, from the old French word hellequin, meaning a troop of the devil's horsemen.
The main question the exhibition raises is why should an artist such as Picasso have wanted to dress up as a harlequin in a diamond-patterned coat and a cocked hat?
But Crystal and his co-writers (Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) aim to get behind the ironic mask of this Yiddish harlequin and reveal the fierce ambition and bitterness that fuel his put-downs.
"One Man" has its own loose versions of those characters transposed into 1960s England, plus a goofy harlequin type in the lead: Francis Henshall (James Corden), an easily confused young man who has created a jam by employing himself as a gofer to two separate men at the same time.
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