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| Type | Subsidiary of News Corporation |
| Founded |  New York City (1817) |
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| Industry | Publishing |
| Revenue | >£500 million |
| Website | www.harpercollins.com |
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. A subsidiary, in business matters is an entity that is controlled by a bigger and more powerful entity News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation The City of New York Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common For other uses of this term see Industry (disambiguation An industry (from Latin industrius, "diligent industrious" In business revenue or revenues is Income that a company receives from its normal business activities usually from the sale of goods and services See also Pound (currency.The pound sign (" £ " or " ₤ " is the symbol for the Pound sterling —the currency of the A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages Publishing is the process of production and dissemination of Literature or Information &ndash the activity of making information available for public view News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company. Harper & Row was a publishing company based in New York City. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. Brian Murray (born September 10 1937) is a South African Actor and Theatre director. [1] The company publishes under many different imprints. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published
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History
Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins, in Glasgow in 1819, in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers, minister of Tron Church, Glasgow. Scotland ( Gaelic: Alba) is a Country in northwest Europethat occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain. Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity William Collins (1789&ndash1853 was a Scottish Schoolmaster and Publisher. Glasgow (ˈglæzgoʊ is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom Year 1819 ( MDCCCXIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar in the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common year Thomas Chalmers ( March 17, 1780 - May 31, 1847) Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of Scotland The St George's-Tron Church in Glasgow, Scotland, commonly known simply as "The Tron" (though it should not be confused with the 17th–century Tron Church The company had to overcome many early obstacles, and Charles Chalmers left the business in 1825. The company eventually found success in 1841 as a printer of Bibles, and in 1848 Collins's son Sir William Collins developed the firm as a publishing venture, specializing in religious and educational books. For the game see 1841 (board game. Year 1841 ( MDCCCXLI) was a Common year starting on Friday (link Etymology According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word bible is from Latin biblia, traced from the same word through Medieval Latin and Late Latin Year 1848 ( MDCCCXLVIII) was a Leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap Sir William Collins (1817-1895 was a famous figure in the Temperance movement who served as Glasgow 's Lord Provost between 1877 and 1880 A religion is a set of Tenets and practices often centered upon specific Supernatural and moral claims about Reality, the Cosmos Education encompasses both the Teaching and Learning of Knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency A Book is a set or collection of written printed illustrated or blank sheets made of Paper, Parchment, or other material usually fastened together The company was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. in 1868. Year 1868 ( MDCCCLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Leap [2]
Although the early emphasis of the company had been on religion and education, Collins also published more widely. In 1917, with Sir Godfrey Collins in charge, the firm started publishing fiction. Year 1917 ( MCMXVII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. published all but the first six of Agatha Christie's novels. Agatha Mary Clarissa Lady Mallowan, DBE (née Miller; 15 September 1890 &ndash 12 January 1976 commonly known as Agatha Christie, was an English Upon purchasing the rights to the works of C.S. Lewis, Fount was established as Collins's religion imprint. Clive Staples Lewis (29 November 1898 – 22 November 1963
Collins ultimately became a diverse and prolific publisher, publishing a wide range of titles, including many aimed at a juvenile audience. By the late 1970s, Wm Collins & Sons was also responsible for publishing the long-running American Children's Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew series' in the United Kingdom. The Hardy Boys is a Juvenile detective/adventure series chronicling the Fictional adventures of Teenage brothers Frank and Nancy Drew (1930-present is an amateur sleuth, the fictional Heroine of a popular Mystery series, aimed at the children - young These were firstly published in a series of digest size hardbacks akin to their American style. Digest size is a Magazine size smaller than a conventional size magazine but larger than a standard Paperback book approximately 5½ x 8¼ Inches but Paperbacks (of a 'normal' rather than 'digest' size) soon followed from Collins' Armada Books imprint, although the series as published in England follow a different numbering system to the accepted American one. Collins's Armada Books imprint also published similar series, such as the Three Investigators, alongside such British stallwarts as Biggles, Billy Bunter and Paddington Bear, and such well-loved authors as Enid Blyton, Malcolm Saville, Diana Pullein-Thompson. The Three Investigators was an American juvenile Detective Book series first published as " Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators James Bigglesworth, better known in flying circles as " Biggles " is a fictional pilot and adventurer created by W William George Bunter or Billy Bunter, the "Fat Owl of the Remove" is a fictional character created by Charles Hamilton (using the nom de plume of Paddington Bear is a Fictional character in Children's literature. Enid Mary Blyton ( August 11 1897 &ndash November 28 1968) was a British children's writer. Leonard Malcolm Saville (1901-1982 was an English author born in Hastings, Sussex. The Pullein-Thompson sisters - Josephine Pullein-Thompson (1924- Diana Pullein-Thompson (1925- and Christine Pullein-Thompson (1925–2005 - are British
HarperCollins Children's Books has a long tradition in the industry, and has one of the best backlists in the business. A backlist is a list of older books available from a publisher as opposed to titles newly published This is largely due to legendary children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom, who was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973. Ursula Nordstrom (1910 - 1988 was director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973 She personally brought out such classics of children's literature as Goodnight Moon, Where the Wild Things Are, The Giving Tree, Charlotte's Web, Beverly Cleary's series starring Ramona Quimby, Harold and the Purple Crayon, and scores more. This article is about the children's book Goodnight Moon For the Shivaree song see Goodnight Moon (song. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a children's Picture book originally published by Harper & Row. The Giving Tree, first published in 1964 is a Children's book written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E Beverly Cleary (born April 12 1916) is an American author from Oregon. Ramona Quimby is the central character in a popular series of children's novels by Beverly Cleary. Harold and the Purple Crayon is a 1955 Children's book by Crockett Johnson. [3] In 1998, Nordtrom's personal correspondence was brought out in Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (illustrated by Maurice Sendak). Maurice Bernard Sendak (born June 10, 1928, in Brooklyn New York) is an American Writer and Illustrator of Children's literature The writer Charlotte Zolotow, who began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protege, and went on to write more than 80 books of her own as well as to edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's own book, The Secret Language, and those of Paul Fleischman. Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26 1915 in Norfolk Virginia) is an American author poet editor and publisher Paul Fleischman (1952 -) is an American children's author and is the son of Newbery Medal winner Sid Fleischman. Zolotow was later made the children's book department head, then went on to become the company's first female vice president. Finally, she had her own imprint, CZ Books.
Today, the HarperCollins children's division publishes bestsellers from Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Jamie Lee Curtis. Lemony Snicket is a Pseudonym used by author Daniel Handler in his book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as a character in that Neil Richard Gaiman (ˈgeɪmən (born November 10, 1960) is an English author of Science fiction and Fantasy short stories and Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22 1958 is a two-time Golden Globe -winning BAFTA -winning and Emmy -nominated American Film
In 1989, Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Year 1989 ( MCMLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link displays 1989 Gregorian calendar) is gay Bold text' Keith Rupert Murdoch', AC, KCSG (born Melbourne, March 11 1931 usually known as Rupert Murdoch, is an Australian-American News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp) (,,) is one of the world's largest media conglomerate companies by Market capitalisation Joined together with the New York-based publisher Harper & Row in 1987, they now trade under the name HarperCollins. Harper & Row was a publishing company based in New York City. Year 1987 ( MCMLXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays 1987 Gregorian calendar)
In 2003, Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins, published Edith Grossman's new translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote, to great acclaim. Year 2003 ( MMIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Edith Grossman (born March 22, 1936) is an award-winning American Translator specializing in English versions of Spanish language Translation is the interpreting of the meaning of a text and the subsequent production of an equivalent text likewise called a " translation Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ( in modern Spanish; September 29, 1547 &ndash April 22, 1616) was a Spanish Novelist es '''''Don Quixote''''' (, see spelling and pronunciation below fully titled es '''''El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha''''' ("The Ingenious Hidalgo Don
Collins is still used as an imprint, chiefly for wildlife and natural history books (including the on-going New Naturalist series) and field guides, as well as English and bilingual dictionaries based on the Bank of English, a large corpus of contemporary English texts. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants animals and other organisms Natural history is the Scientific research of Plants or Animals leaning more towards the Observational than Experimental methods The New Naturalist books are a series published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of Natural history topics relevant to the British Isles A field guide Bold textis a Book designed to help the reader identify Wildlife ( Plants or Animals or other objects of natural The Bank of English is the name of the COBUILD corpus, a collection of English texts In Linguistics, a corpus (plural corpora) or text corpus is a large and structured set of texts (now usually electronically stored and processed
In 1999, News Corporation purchased the Hearst Book Group consisting of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books. Year 1999 ( MCMXCIX) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar) Avon Publications was an American paperback book and Comic book publisher [1]
Its web site home page describes it as "Home of William Morrow, Avon, Perennial, Rayo, Amistad, Caedmon Audio, Regan Books".
In 2007, the company published a new series of books entitled Stranger Than..., which include though-provoking works of non-fiction. Stranger Than is a series of thought-provoking books which fall into the non-fiction and autobiography genres
On January 16, 2008, George Michael, 44, inked a "no-holds-barred" multimillion-pound autobiography contract with HarperCollins, to be sold in book stores in autumn, 2008. Events 27 BC - The title Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavian by the Roman Senate. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (Γεώργιος Κυριάκος Παναγιώτου (born 25 June 1963 best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning An autobiography, from the Greek αὐτός autos "self" βίος bios "life" and γράφειν graphein "to write" Michael's manager Andy Stephens announced that: "George has promised HarperCollins a no-holds-barred biography, and it's certain to be just that. People aren't stupid, they're beginning to notice that the truth is more interesting than the stories the press come up with. " The agreement is "one of the biggest ever concluded in UK publishing. " [4]
New Entity
HarperCollins seeks to revolutionize the publishing industry with a new, experimental unit that would 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. Robert S. Miller will head the new entity with hopes to update the revenue system. [5][6]
Web Approach
In order to both boost book sales and effectively reach the interactive community, HarperCollins offers books for free online. The entire book is not available to view, but potential buyers are able to browse books before they purchase (much like a traditional bookstore)[7][8] There are some concerns among publishers with this approach because they feel that the online books could be exploited in a "Napster-type" way. [9] In addition, excerpts of books are also available to mobile phone users. [10]
HarperCollins has also broken through to the internet culture by teaming up with MySpace. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and HarperTeen is a page on MySpace that creates an interactive community for teen readers. MySpace is a popular social networking Website offering an interactive user-submitted network of friends personal profiles blogs groups photos music and [11]
Imprints
HarperCollins has over 30 book imprints, most of which are based in the United States. In the Publishing Industry, an imprint can refer to two different things It can mean a Brand name under which a work is published The United States of America —commonly referred to as the [2]
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- COBUILD - a research facility set up by Collins in conjunction with the University of Birmingham. Angus & Robertson is a Bookstore chain in Australia. Its first bookstore was opened in 110½ Market Street Sydney by Scotsman David Angus and Arnold Robertson Avon Publications was an American paperback book and Comic book publisher Ecco Press is a publishing imprint of Harper Collins Books. It was originally founded (c HarperCollins is a Publishing company owned by News Corporation. Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells on October 1 1935) is an award-winning English Actress William Morrow and Company is an American Publishing company founded by William Morrow in 1926 Zondervan is an international Christian media and publishing company one of the four businesses founded by Dutch-Americans that have made Grand Rapids, COBUILD, an acronym for Collins Birmingham University International Language Database, is a British research facility set up at the University of Birmingham in 1980 The University of Birmingham (informally Birmingham University) is a British red brick University located in the city of Birmingham
- John Bartholomew and Son Ltd - Collins Bartholomew, cartographic division of HarperCollins. John Bartholomew and Son Limited was a long-established Map Publishing company originally based in Edinburgh, Scotland.
References
- ^ Brian Murray takes over
- ^ Keir, David (1952). The House of Collins: The Story of a Scottish Family of Publishers from 1789 to the Present Day. Collins: London. ISBN B00005XH0X.
- ^ Marcus, Leonard S (editor) (1998). Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom HarperTrophy: New York. ISBN 0-06-446235-8
- ^ ukpress.google.com, George Michael tells all in memoirs
- ^ Rich, Motoko (2008-04-04). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. "New HarperCollins Unit to Try to Cut Writer Advances". New York Times. Retrieved on 2008-04-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
- ^ Italie, Hillel (2008-04-03). 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1043 - Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. "Hyperion publisher goes to HarperCollins". Associated Press. Retrieved on 2008-04-04. 2008 ( MMVIII) is the current year in accordance with the Gregorian calendar, a Leap year that started on Tuesday of the Common Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I.
- ^ HarperCollins (Finally) Offers Free Books Online
- ^ Pace, Andrew K. “Technically Speaking. ” American Libraries 2006 April: 80.
- ^ Lowry, Tom. “Getting Out Of a Bind. ” Business Week2006 April 10; 79.
- ^ HarperCollins Offers Books on the iPhone
- ^ MySpace and HarperCollins Hook Up in Hopes that Teens Still Read Books
External links
- HarperCollins Publishers India
- HarperCollins Publishers US
- HarperCollins Publishers UK
- Collins UK
- HarperCollinsChildrens US
- HarperCollins Publishers AUS
- HarperCollins Publishers CAN
- Zondervan
- Collinslanguage.com English dictionary and thesaurus (free online lookup)
- Collins English Dictionary electronic version of dictionary
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