Welcome to a breaking audio edition of the Good e-Reader Radio Show! Today Michael Kozlowski and Mercy Pilkington discuss the merger between HarperCollins and Harlequin. The entire deal is for $455 million in cash and will likely give HC the international distribution it needs to make a serious play in overseas markets. What does this mean for self-published authors or authors wanting to branch out from Romance into Mystery? Michael Kozlowski Michael Kozlowski has written about audiobooks, e-books and e-readers for the past eighteen years.