[3] Former HarperCollins CEO Jane Friedman and film producer Jeffrey Sharp launched Open Road Integrated Media with the goal of bringing backlist books back to life in digital formats and partnering with writers of contemporary and classic works.

The Open Road Media catalog includes authors such as William Styron, Pat Conroy, Joan Didion, Samuel R. Delany, Alice Walker, John Ashbery, Robin McKinley, Michael Chabon, Sherman Alexie, Pearl S. Buck, Elizabeth Lynn and Dee Brown.

In 2011, HarperCollins filed a copyright infringement suit against Open Road over the ebook edition of children's novel Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George.

[4] In March 2014, the New York district court judge ruled in favor of HarperCollins, stating that the contract language included digital rights.

[12] According to the New York Times, Re-Discovery Lit utilizes Open Road’s “machine learning technology” to find readers for these republished works, which include books by authors such as Barbara Delinsky and Roger Angell.