That didn’t take long: HarperCollins has announced it’s closing down its HarperStudio imprint, less than a month after its founding guru/publisher Bob Miller announced he was leaving to go elsewhere (see the earlier MobyLives report). As Jason Boog notes in his GalleyCat report, the imprint, barely two years old, was relentlessly touted by its publicists as “one of publishing’s most experimental projects,” which it certainly was to anyone completely ignorant of the vast world of American independent publishing.

In a memo, HC president and publisher Michael Morrison says the imprint will close after the summer, 2010 list, and books scheduled for beyond that catalogue will be absorbed by other HC imprints. However, the company is willing to negotiate “profit sharing scenarios on a book by book basis” with HarperStudio authors who had originally had such terms with Miller and are now left in the lurch.