Collins Publishers is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
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19 Facts About Collins Publishers
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HarperCollins Publishers has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China.
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Collins Publishers publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.
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In 1996, HarperCollins Publishers sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins Publishers College to Pearson, which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman.
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HarperCollins Publishers bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale in March 2010.
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In 2011, HarperCollins Publishers announced they had agreed to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson.
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In 2014, HarperCollins Publishers acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million.
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In 2018, HarperCollins Publishers acquired the business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association.
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Brian Murray, the current CEO of HarperCollins Publishers, succeeded Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008.
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HarperCollins Publishers previously closed two US warehouses, one in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012.
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In September 2020, HarperCollins Publishers sued Lindsay Lohan for entering into a book deal and collecting a $350,000 advance for a tell-all memoir that never materialized.
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HarperCollins Publishers maintains the backlist of many of the books originally published by its many merged imprints, in addition to having picked up new authors since the merger.
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HarperCollins Publishers has more than 120 book imprints, most of which are based in the United States.
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Collins Publishers 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.
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In 2008, HarperCollins Publishers launched a browsing feature on its website to allow customers can read selected excerpts from books before purchasing, on both desktop and mobile browsers.
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Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins Publishers, explained to the media that the deal represents the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog.
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HarperCollins Publishers formerly operated authonomy, an online community of authors, from 2008 to 2015.
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In March 2011, HarperCollins Publishers announced it would distribute ebooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after being lent 26 times.
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HarperCollins Publishers 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.
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