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HarperCollins Publishers LLC
Parent company News Corp
Status Active
Founded 1989; 34 years ago
Country of origin United States
United Kingdom
Headquarters location 195 Broadway

New York City, New York, U.S.
Distribution Worldwide
Imprints Numerous
Revenue US$1.985 billion (2021)[1]
Official website harpercollins.com
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-

language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random
House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The
company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary
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of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing

firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company
acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier
merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row,
Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing
company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in
1989.
The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray.[2]

HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States,
Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil,
India, and China. The company publishes many different
imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new
imprints.
History[edit]
Collins[edit]
Harper[edit]
Mergers and acquisitions[edit]
Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in
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1989, and was combined with Harper & Row, which NewsCorp
had acquired two years earlier. In addition to the simplified and
merged name, the logo for HarperCollins was derived from the
torch logo for Harper and Row, and the fountain logo for Collins,
which were combined into a stylized depiction of flames atop
waves.
In 1990, HarperCollins sold J. B. Lippincott & Co., its medical

publishing division, to the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer.[3]
In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins

College to Pearson, which merged them with Addison-Wesley
Longman.[4]
News Corporation purchased the Hearst Book Group, consisting

of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books, in 1999. These
imprints are now published under the rubric of HarperCollins.[5]
HarperCollins bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale
in March 2010.[6]
In 2011, HarperCollins announced they had agreed to acquire

the publisher Thomas Nelson.[7] The purchase was completed
on 11 July 2012, with an announcement that Thomas Nelson
would operate independently given the position it has in
Christian book publishing.[8] Both Thomas Nelson and
Zondervan were then organized as imprints, or "keystone
publishing programs," under a new division, HarperCollins
Christian Publishing.[9][10] Key roles in the reorganization were
awarded to former Thomas Nelson executives.[11]
In 2012, HarperCollins acquired part of the trade operations of

John Wiley & Son in Canada.[12]
In 2014, HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher
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Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million.[13]
In 2018, HarperCollins acquired the business publisher Amacom

from the American Management Association.[14]
In 2020, HarperCollins acquired the children's publishers

Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland and Schneiderbuch
Germany from the Egmont Group.[15]
On 29 March 2021, HarperCollins announced that it would

acquire HMH Books & Media, the trade publishing division of
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, for $349 million. The deal would
allow HMH to pay down its debt and focus on digital
education.[16] The deal was completed on 10 May.[17] As of 7
July 2021, HMH's adult books will be published as Mariner
Books, while HMH's children's books will be published as
Clarion Books.[18]
In 2021, HarperCollins acquired the British publishers Pavilion

Books.[19]
In 2022 HarperCollins acquired Cider Mill Press.[20]
Management history[edit]
Brian Murray,[21] the current CEO of HarperCollins, succeeded

Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008. Notable
management figures include Lisa Sharkey, current senior vice
president and director of creative development and Barry
Winkleman from 1989 to 1994.
United States v. Apple Inc.[edit]
In April 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed

United States v. Apple Inc., naming Apple, HarperCollins, and
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four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that

they conspired to fix prices for e-books, and weaken
Amazon.com's position in the market, in violation of antitrust
law.[22]
In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the

antitrust claims, in which HarperCollins and the other publishers
paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had
overpaid for books due to the price-fixing.[23]
US warehouse closings[edit]
On 5 November 2012, HarperCollins announced to employees

privately and then later in the day publicly that it was closing its
remaining two US warehouses, to merge shipping and
warehousing operations with R. R. Donnelley in Indiana. The
Scranton, Pennsylvania, warehouse closed in September 2013
and a Nashville, Tennessee, warehouse, under the name
Thomas Nelson (which distributes the religious arm of
HarperCollins/Zondervan Books), in the winter of 2013. Several
office positions and departments continued to work for
HarperCollins in Scranton, but in a new location.[24]
The Scranton warehouse closing eliminated about 200 jobs, and

the Nashville warehouse closing eliminated up to 500 jobs; the
exact number of distribution employees is unknown.[25]
HarperCollins previously closed two US warehouses, one in

Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, in 2012.[26] "We have taken a long-term,
global view of our print distribution and are committed to offering
the broadest possible reach for our authors," said HarperCollins
Chief Executive Brian Murray, according to Publishers Weekly.
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"We are retooling the traditional distribution model to ensure we

can competitively offer the entire HarperCollins catalog to
customers regardless of location." Company officials attribute
the closings and mergers to the rapidly growing demand for
e-book formats and the decline in print purchasing.[citation
needed]
Internet Archive lawsuit[edit]
In June 2020, HarperCollins was one of a group of publishers

who sued the Internet Archive, arguing that its collection of
e-books was denying authors and publishers revenue and
accusing the library of "willful mass copyright infringement".[27]
Lindsay Lohan lawsuit[edit]
In September 2020, HarperCollins sued Lindsay Lohan for

entering into a book deal and collecting a $350,000 advance for
a tell-all memoir that never materialized.[28]
Anne Frank's betrayal[edit]
A 2022 book written by Rosemary Sullivan, with HarperCollins

as main publisher, designated a Jewish notary as the most likely
suspect in Anne Frank's betrayal. The conclusion was
challenged by experts. The notary's family members threatened
a lawsuit and started a foundation. The Dutch publisher
withdrew the book, but HarperCollins has not taken any
definitive decision.[29]
UAW strike[edit]
On 10 November 2022, approximately 250 unionized workers at
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HarperCollins began an indefinite strike.[30][31] Local 2110 of the

United Auto Workers (UAW) union includes people in design,
marketing, publicity, and sales for the company. The UAW union
made the decision to strike after drawn-out negotiations
between it and HarperCollins, which resulted in members
"working without a contract since April."[32] According to a
spokesperson, HarperCollins "has agreed to a number of
proposals that the UAW is seeking to include in a new contract"
and "is disappointed an agreement has not been reached" but
"will continue to negotiate in good faith."[30]
On 21 December 2022 the local put their in-person picketing on

"pause" to give strikers an opportunity to spend time with their
loved ones.[33][better source needed] The picketing resumed as
scheduled on 3 January 2023.[34][better source needed]
After three months of collective action, the union agreed to a

new contract with HarperCollins on February 16th 2023. [35]
Under the new terms, the annual starting pay of HarperCollins
employees has increased from $45,000 to $47,500 upon
ratification, and is set to rise to $50,000 by 2025. Additionally,
full-time employees in the union will receive a lump sum
payment of $1,500.[35] The contract also allows workers making
less than $60,000 to file for two hours of overtime pay per week
without approval from a manager, and puts measures in place to
compensate junior-level staff for diversity and inclusion work
which is typically unpaid in the industry.[36]
The workers returned to their desks on February 21st.[36]
Noted books[edit]
HarperCollins maintains the backlist of many of the books
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originally published by its many merged imprints, in addition to

having picked up new authors since the merger. Authors
published originally by Harper include Mark Twain, the Brontë
sisters, and William Makepeace Thackeray. Authors published
originally by Collins include H. G. Wells and Agatha Christie.
HarperCollins also acquired the publishing rights to J. R. R.
Tolkien's work in 1990 when Unwin Hyman was bought. This is
a list of some of the more noted books and series published by
HarperCollins and their various imprints and merged publishing
houses.
The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) (originally published by

George Allen & Unwin)
The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1954–1955) (originally

published by George Allen & Unwin)
The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm (1956)
Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian (1970) (adapted into

the 2003 film Master and Commander: The Far Side of the
World)
the Leaphorn and Chee books, Tony Hillerman (1970–2006)
The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien with Guy

Gavriel Kay) (1977) (originally published by George Allen &
Unwin)
Collins English Dictionary (1979), a major dictionary[37]
Sharpe series, Bernard Cornwell (1981–2006)
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Hayden Herrera (1983),

adapted into the 2002 film Frida
The History of Middle-earth series, J. R. R. Tolkien (ed.

Christopher Tolkien) (1983–1996)
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Weaveworld, Clive Barker (1987)
the Paladin Poetry Series (1987–1993)
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, (1988) (first published in

Portuguese as O Alquimista, 1988)
subsequent novels in the Take Back Plenty series, Colin

Greenland (1990+)
Where There's a Will: Who Inherited What and Why, Stephen M.

Silverman (1991)
Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals (1991,

Diamond Books)
The Language of the Genes, Steve Jones (1993)
The Gifts of the Body, Rebecca Brown (1994)
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland (1995)
Thoughts, Tionne Watkins (1999)
Shuka Saptati: Seventy tales of the Parrot a new translation

from the Sanskrit by A. N. D. Haksar (2000)
First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia

Remembers, Loung Ung (2000)
Bel Canto, Ann Patchett (2001)
A Theory of Relativity, Jacquelyn Mitchard (2001)
recent volumes in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett (books

from 2001 to present)
American Gods, Neil Gaiman (2001)
Boonville, Robert Mailer Anderson (2003 reprint)
Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson (2003)
Don Quixote, a new translation by Edith Grossman (2003, Ecco)
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Acquainted with the Night, Christopher Dewdney (2004)
State of fear, by Michael Crichton (2004)
Darkhouse, Alex Barclay (2005)
Anansi Boys, Neil Gaiman (2005)
The Hot Kid, Elmore Leonard (2005)
Freaky Green Eyes, by Joyce Carol Oates (2006)
Next, Michael Crichton (2006)
Domicilium Decoratus, Kelly Wearstler (2006)

ISBN 0-06-089798-8
Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard (2006)
Mister B. Gone, Clive Barker (Harper) (2007)
Loving Natalee: A Mother's Testament of Hope and Faith, Beth

Holloway (2007) (about Natalee Holloway)
The Raw Shark Texts, Steven Hall (2007)
The Children of Húrin, J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien)

(2007)
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of

American Power, Jeff Sharlet (2008)
Going Rogue: An American Life, Sarah Palin (2009)
Pirate Latitudes, Michael Crichton (2009) (posthumous

publication)
Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel (2009)
Shattered: The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's

Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas Murder, Kathryn Casey
(2010)
Micro, Michael Crichton (2011) (posthumous publication)
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The Dressmaker of Khair Khana, Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

(2011)
A Shot at History: My Obsessive Journey to Olympic Gold by

Abhinav Bindra (2011)
Go Set a Watchman, Harper Lee (2015)
The Poppy War, R.F. Kuang (2018)
Harper children's books[edit]
Children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom was the director of

Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to
1973, overseeing the publication of classics such as Goodnight
Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Charlotte's
Web, Beverly Cleary's series starring Ramona Quimby, and
Harold and the Purple Crayon. They were the publishing home
of Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise
Brown.[38] In 1998, Nordstrom's personal correspondence was
published as Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom
(illustrated by Maurice Sendak), edited by Charlotte Zolotow.
Zolotow began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom,
became her protégé, and went on to write more than 80 books
and edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's The Secret
Language and the works of Paul Fleischman. Zolotow later
became head of the children's books department, and went on
to become the company's first female vice president.
The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis, while not

originally published by a merged imprint of HarperCollins, was
acquired by the publisher.[39]
HarperCollins has published these notable children's books:
the I Can Read! series for beginning readers, including the
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Amelia Bedelia (Peggy Parish), Frog and Toad (Arnold Lobel)

and Little Bear (Else Holmelund Minarik and Maurice Sendak)
books
the Warriors series (2003–present)
the Pretty Little Liars series, by Sara Shepard (2007–present)
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
A Taste of Blackberries, Doris Buchanan Smith (1973)
Skulduggery Pleasant series, Derek Landy
Bart Simpson's Guide to Life (1993)
international rights to Dr. Seuss (inherited from Collins; 1950s–

present)
Love That Dog, Sharon Creech (2001)
The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein (1964)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (book), Shel Silverstein (1974)
The Saga of Darren Shan, Darren Shan (2000–2004)

Cirque du Freak manga series, Darren Shan and Takahiro Arai
(2006–2009)
The Dangerous Book for Boys, Conn and Hal Iggulden (2006)
Sabriel, Garth Nix (1995)
A Barrel of Laughs, a Vale of Tears, Jules Feiffer (1995)
Mister God, This Is Anna, Fynn (pseudonym of Sydney Hopkins)

(1974)
the Little House on the Prairie series, Laura Ingalls Wilder

(1932–2006)
The Wolves in the Walls, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (2003)
Monster, Walter Dean Myers (1999)
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Coraline, Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean (2002)
Surviving the Applewhites, Stephanie S. Tolan (2002)
The Gollywhopper Games (2008)
Ruby Redfort (series), Lauren Child (2011)
Divergent, Veronica Roth (2011)
Survivors series (2012-2019)
The School for Good and Evil, Soman Chainani (2013–present)
Splat the Cat, Rob Scotton (2007–present)
The Secret Zoo, Bryan Chick (2010–2023)
Charlotte's Web, E. B. White (2015)[40]
Little Penguin, Tadgh Bentley (2015–present)
Elinor Wonders Why adapted books (2021–present)
Imprints[edit]
HarperCollins has more than 120 book imprints, most of which

are based in the United States.[41] Collins still exists as an
imprint, chiefly for wildlife and natural history books, field guides,
as well as for English and bilingual dictionaries based on the
Bank of English, a large corpus of contemporary English texts.
HarperCollins imprints (current and defunct, including imprints

that existed prior to various mergers) include:
Current[edit]
Adult[edit]
Amistad Press, primarily books of African-American interest,

named for the storied ship La Amistad; launched as an
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independent imprint in 1986 by Charles F. Harris (1934–2015), it

merged with HarperCollins in 1999.[42][43][44]
Harlequin Enterprises
Carina Press
Graydon House Books
Hanover Square Press
Harlequin Teen
Harlequin Kimani Arabesque
Harlequin Kimani TRU
Harlequin Kimani Press
Harlequin Luna
HQN
Mira
Park Row Books
Rogue Angel
Silhouette Special Releases
Spice
Worldwide Mystery
Harper
Broadside Books (American conservative imprint)[45]
Ecco
Harper Business[46][47][48]
Fontana Books
Harper Design
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Harper Hardcover
Harper Paperbacks
Bourbon Street Books
Harper Perennial, originally Perennial Library

Harper Perennial Modern Classics
HarperLuxe (Large print)[49]
HarperImpulse (Digital first imprint)
HarperTrue (Non Fiction digital first)
HarperOne[50]
HarperVoyager, formerly Voyager, HarperCollins's worldwide

science-fiction and fantasy imprint, combining the UK imprint
HarperCollins Science Fiction & Fantasy (which had inherited
the sci-fi and fantasy list of Collins's Grafton Books and its
predecessors (Granada, Panther), as well as J. R. R. Tolkien's
books from the acquisition of George Allen & Unwin) and the US
imprint Eos (from the acquisition of Avon Books, which
incorporated the former Harper Prism)
Mariner Books
Killer Reads (digital first Crime & Thriller imprint)
One More Chapter Books (Digital first Crime & Thriller imprint)
HarperWave
Harper Muse[51]
HarperCollins Focus[52]
Blink
Harper Celebrate
Harper Horizon
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HarperCollins Leadership[53]
Amacom
Harper Muse
HarperCollins UK
4th Estate/Fourth Estate[54]
Collins Bartholomew
HarperFiction
The Borough Press[55]
HarperNonFiction
Thorsons
Pavilion Books[56]
William Collins
William Morrow
Avon
Avon Red
Avon Romance
Mischief (digital imprint)
Custom House (since 2015, led by Geoff Shandler)[57]
Dey Street (formerly It Books)[58]
Witness
William Morrow Paperbacks
Morrow Cookbooks, a highly respected series of cookbooks
Children[edit]
HarperCollins Children's Books
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Harper Festival, a publisher of novelty books founded in

1992[59]
HarperTeen[60]
HarperTeen Impulse (digital imprint)
HarperTrophy
Amistad
Balzer + Bray
Collins
Clarion Books
Greenwillow Books
Heartdrum[61]
HMH Books for Young Readers
Katherine Tegen Books
Walden Pond Press
Blink Young Adult
Farshore (formerly Egmont Books UK)

Electric Monkey
Christian[edit]
Thomas Nelson
Grupo Nelson
Nelson Books
Tommy Nelson
W Publishing Group
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WestBow Press
Zondervan
Editorial Vida
Zonderkidz
Zondervan Academic
Zondervan Reflective
Audio[edit]
HarperAudio
Caedmon, audiobooks
HarperCollins Children's Audio
Bureau[edit]
HarperCollins Speakers Bureau
Digital[edit]
HarperCollins e-Books
HarperCollins Productions
Film and television[edit]
3000 Pictures (joint venture with Sony Pictures)
Defunct[edit]
Unwin Hyman (formerly Allen & Unwin, which is now an

independent Australian publisher)
Angus & Robertson
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The Julie Andrews Collection
Avon A
Cliff Street Books
Collins Press
Collins GEM
Diamond Books
Eos Books, science fiction/fantasy, formerly an Avon Books

imprint
Flamingo
Fontana Books / Fontana Press (see Fontana Modern Masters)
Harper & Brothers
Harper & Row
Harper Perennial Modern Thought
Harper Prism, science fiction imprint (merged with Eos)
Harper San Francisco, with a focus on religious and spiritual

books (now HarperOne)
Harper Torch
Harper Trophy, children's book imprint
Harper True
HarperCollins West
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Marshall Pickering
Moonstone
New Naturalist
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Rayo (a Latino-focused imprint)[62][63]
ReganBooks
Salamander
Thorsons
Business strategy[edit]
Web approach[edit]
In 2008, HarperCollins launched a browsing feature on its

website where customers can read selected excerpts from
books before purchasing, on both desktop and mobile browsers.
[64][65][66] This functionality gave the publisher's website the
ability to compete with physical bookstores, in which customers
can typically look at the book itself, and Amazon's use of
excerpts ("teasers") for online book purchasers.[64]
At the beginning of October 2013, the company announced a

partnership with online digital library Scribd. The official
statement revealed that the "majority" of the HarperCollins US
and HarperCollins Christian catalogs will be available in Scribd's
subscription service. Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer
at HarperCollins, explained to the media that the deal
represents the first time that the publisher has released such a
large portion of its catalog.[67]
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HarperCollins formerly operated authonomy, an online

community of authors, from 2008 to 2015. The website offered
an alternative to the traditional "slush pile" approach for handling
unsolicited manuscripts sent to a publisher with little chance of
being reviewed. Using authonomy, authors could submit their
work for peer review and ranking by other members; the five
highest-ranked manuscripts each month would be read by
HarperCollins editors for potential publication. The site was
closed after authors "learned to game the system" to earn top-
five rankings, and fewer authonomy titles were selected to be
published.[68]
From 2009 to 2010, HarperCollins operated BookArmy, a social

networking site.
Speakers Bureau[edit]
The HarperCollins Speakers Bureau (also known as HCSB) is

the first lecture agency to be created by a major publishing
house.[69] It was launched in May 2005[69] as a division of
HarperCollins to book paid speaking engagements for the
authors HarperCollins, and its sister companies, publish. Andrea
Rosen is the director.[70]
Some of the notable authors the HCSB represents include Carol

Alt, Dennis Lehane, Gregory Maguire,[71] Danny Meyer, Mehmet
Oz, Sidney Poitier, Ted Sorensen, and Kate White.
HarperAcademic[edit]
HarperAcademic is the academic marketing department of

HarperCollins. HarperAcademic provides instructors with the
latest in adult titles for course adoption at the high school and
college level, as well as titles for first-year and other common
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read programs at academic institutions. They also attend

several major academic conferences to showcase new titles for
academic professionals.
HarperAcademic Calling, a podcast produced by the

department, provides interviews with authors of noteworthy
titles.
HarperStudio[edit]
HarperCollins announced HarperStudio in 2008 as a "new,

experimental unit... that will eliminate the traditional profit
distributions to authors. The long-established author advances
and bookseller returns has not proved to be very profitable to
either the author or the publisher. The approach HarperStudio is
now taking is to offer little or no advance, but instead to split the
profit 50% (rather than the industry standard 15%), with the
author." The division was headed by Bob Miller, previously the
founding publisher of Hyperion, the adult books division of the
Walt Disney Company.[72][73] HarperStudio folded in March
2010 after Miller left for Workman Publishing.[74]
HarperCollins India[edit]
HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd. is a wholly owned

subsidiary of HarperCollins Worldwide. It came into being in
1992.
Controversies[edit]
If I Did It[edit]
If I Did It was a book written by O. J. Simpson about his alleged

murder of Nicole Simpson, which was planned as a
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HarperCollins title, and which attracted considerable controversy

and a legal battle over publication.
Ben Collins[edit]
In August 2010, the company became embroiled in a legal battle

with the BBC after a book it was due to publish, later identified
as the forthcoming autobiography of racing driver Ben Collins,
revealed the identity of The Stig from Top Gear.[75] In his blog,
Top Gear executive producer Andy Wilman accused
HarperCollins of "hoping to cash in" on the BBC's intellectual
property, describing the publishers as "a bunch of chancers".[76]
On 1 September, the BBC's request for an injunction preventing
the book from being published was turned down, effectively
confirming the book's revelation that "The Stig" was indeed
Collins.[77]
East and West[edit]
The company became embroiled in controversy in 1998 after it

was revealed it blocked Chris Patten's (the last British governor
of Hong Kong) book East and West after a direct intervention by
the then-CEO of News International, Rupert Murdoch.[78] It was
later revealed by Stuart Proffitt, the editor who had worked on
the book for HarperCollins, that this intervention was designed
to appease the Chinese authorities—of whom the book was
critical—as Murdoch intended to extend his business empire
into China and did not wish to cause problems there by allowing
the book to be published.[79]
Murdoch's intervention caused both Proffitt's resignation from

the company and outrage from the international media apart
from affiliated companies. Chris Patten later published with
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Macmillan Publishing, initially in America, where it carried the

logo "The book that Rupert Murdoch refused to publish".[80]
After a successful legal campaign against HarperCollins, Patten
went on to publish the book in the UK in September 1998 after
accepting a sum of £500,000 and receiving an apology from
Rupert Murdoch.[81]
Ebooks[edit]
In March 2011, HarperCollins announced it would distribute

ebooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after
being lent 26 times.[82][83] HarperCollins has drawn criticism of
this plan, in particular its likening of ebooks, which are purely
digital, to traditional paperback trade books, which wear over
time.[84][85]
Omission of Israel from an atlas[edit]
In December 2014, The Tablet reported that an atlas published

for Middle East schools did not label Israel on a map of the
Middle East.[86] A representative for Collins Bartholomew, a
subsidiary of HarperCollins that specializes in maps, explained
that including Israel would have been "unacceptable" to their
customers in the Arab states of the Persian Gulf and the
omission was in line with "local preferences".[87] The company
later apologized and destroyed all the books.[88]
What the (Bleep) Just Happened?[edit]
HarperCollins announced in January 2017 that they would

discontinue selling copies of Monica Crowley's book What the
(Bleep) Just Happened?, due to allegations of plagiarism.[89]
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The 2012 book had lifted passages from a number of sources

including columns, news articles and think tank reports.[89]
HarperCollins said in a statement to CNN's KFile, "The book
which has reached the end of its natural sales cycle, will no
longer be offered for purchase until such time as the author has
the opportunity to source and revise the material."[89]
See also[edit]
Books in the United States
COBUILD – a research facility set up by Collins in conjunction

with the University of Birmingham
Harper's Magazine – a separately owned magazine, although

begun by the original Harper & Brothers
List of largest UK book publishers
The Hobbit; The Lord of the Rings; The Silmarillion etc.:

HarperCollins is the current non-US publisher of the Tolkien
series[90]
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HarperCollins Publishers LLC

Parent company News Corp

Founded 1989; 34 years ago

Country of origin United States

Headquarters location 195 Broadway

Revenue US$1.985 billion (2021)[1]

Official website harpercollins.com

HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-

of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing

The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray.[2]

Mergers and acquisitions[edit]

Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in

In 1990, HarperCollins sold J. B. Lippincott & Co., its medical

In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins

News Corporation purchased the Hearst Book Group, consisting

In 2011, HarperCollins announced they had agreed to acquire

In 2012, HarperCollins acquired part of the trade operations of

In 2014, HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher

Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million.[13]

In 2018, HarperCollins acquired the business publisher Amacom

In 2020, HarperCollins acquired the children's publishers

On 29 March 2021, HarperCollins announced that it would

In 2021, HarperCollins acquired the British publishers Pavilion

In 2022 HarperCollins acquired Cider Mill Press.[20]

Brian Murray,[21] the current CEO of HarperCollins, succeeded

United States v. Apple Inc.[edit]

In April 2012, the United States Department of Justice filed

four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that

In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the

On 5 November 2012, HarperCollins announced to employees

The Scranton warehouse closing eliminated about 200 jobs, and

HarperCollins previously closed two US warehouses, one in

"We are retooling the traditional distribution model to ensure we

Internet Archive lawsuit[edit]

In June 2020, HarperCollins was one of a group of publishers

Lindsay Lohan lawsuit[edit]

In September 2020, HarperCollins sued Lindsay Lohan for

Anne Frank's betrayal[edit]

A 2022 book written by Rosemary Sullivan, with HarperCollins

On 10 November 2022, approximately 250 unionized workers at

HarperCollins began an indefinite strike.[30][31] Local 2110 of the

On 21 December 2022 the local put their in-person picketing on

After three months of collective action, the union agreed to a

The workers returned to their desks on February 21st.[36]

HarperCollins maintains the backlist of many of the books

originally published by its many merged imprints, in addition to

The Hobbit, J. R. R. Tolkien (1937) (originally published by

The Lord of the Rings, J. R. R. Tolkien (1954–1955) (originally

The Art of Loving, Erich Fromm (1956)

Master and Commander, Patrick O'Brian (1970) (adapted into

the Leaphorn and Chee books, Tony Hillerman (1970–2006)

The Silmarillion, J. R. R. Tolkien (ed. Christopher Tolkien with Guy

Collins English Dictionary (1979), a major dictionary[37]

Sharpe series, Bernard Cornwell (1981–2006)

Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Hayden Herrera (1983),

The History of Middle-earth series, J. R. R. Tolkien (ed.

Weaveworld, Clive Barker (1987)

the Paladin Poetry Series (1987–1993)

The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho, (1988) (first published in

subsequent novels in the Take Back Plenty series, Colin

Where There's a Will: Who Inherited What and Why, Stephen M.

Dorothy Wordsworth's Illustrated Lakeland Journals (1991,