21 Facts About Collins Reference

Collins Reference is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.

HarperCollins Reference has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China.

Collins Reference publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.

In 1996, HarperCollins Reference sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins Reference College to Pearson, which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman.

HarperCollins Reference bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale in March 2010.

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In 2011, HarperCollins Reference announced they had agreed to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson.

In 2014, HarperCollins Reference acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million.

In 2018, HarperCollins Reference acquired the business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association.

In 2020, HarperCollins Reference acquired the children's publishers Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland and Schneiderbuch Germany from the Egmont Group.

Brian Murray, the current CEO of HarperCollins Reference, succeeded Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008.

HarperCollins Reference previously closed two US warehouses, one in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012.

In June 2020, HarperCollins Reference 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".

In September 2020, HarperCollins Reference sued Lindsay Lohan for entering into a book deal and collecting a $350,000 advance for a tell-all memoir that never materialized.

HarperCollins Reference 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.

HarperCollins Reference has more than 120 book imprints, most of which are based in the United States.

Collins Reference 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.

In 2008, HarperCollins Reference launched a browsing feature on its website to allow customers can read selected excerpts from books before purchasing, on both desktop and mobile browsers.

Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins Reference, explained to the media that the deal represents the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog.

HarperCollins Reference formerly operated authonomy, an online community of authors, from 2008 to 2015.

In March 2011, HarperCollins Reference announced it would distribute ebooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after being lent 26 times.

HarperCollins Reference 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.