18 Facts About Harlequin Enterprises

Harlequin Enterprises ULC is a romance and women's fiction publisher founded in Winnipeg, Canada in 1949.

In May 1949, Harlequin Enterprises was founded in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada as a paperback reprinting company.

Harlequin Enterprises chose one of the more explicit novels and enjoyed it.

Harlequin Enterprises immediately organized the 1969 relocation of operations to Toronto, Ontario where he built the company into a major force in the publishing industry.

Harlequin Enterprises focuses on selling the line of books as a brand name, rather than individual titles.

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Harlequin Enterprises contracted its first American author in late 1975 when they purchased a novel by Janet Dailey.

Eight years later, Harlequin Enterprises attempted to purchase Zebra, but the deal did not go through.

Harlequin Enterprises began expanding into other parts of Europe in 1974, when it entered into a distribution agreement with Cora Verlag, a division of German publisher Axel Springer AG.

The new joint venture format allowed Harlequin Enterprises to receive more of the profits, and allowed them to gain continued distribution in Austria, Switzerland, and West Germany.

In 1992, Harlequin Enterprises had its best year, selling over 205 million novels in 24 languages on 6 continents.

Harlequin Enterprises released a total of 800 new titles in English, with 6,600 foreign editions.

In total, Harlequin Enterprises has offices in Amsterdam, Athens, Budapest, Granges-Pacot, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, New York, Paris, Stockholm, Sydney, Tokyo, and Warsaw as well as licensing agreements in nine other countries.

In 2009, Harlequin Enterprises announced the creation of a vanity press imprint, Harlequin Horizons.

In 2002, Harlequin Enterprises published 1,113 romance novels, more than half of all romances released in North America.

In 2006, Harlequin Enterprises published books in 26 languages in 109 international markets.

In 2009, Harlequin Enterprises was called out by the Mystery Writer's Association, Romance Writers of America, and Science Fiction Writers Association for schemes of making their authors pay for publishing.

Harlequin Enterprises operates Harlequin More Than Words, a community investment program to reward women's work in communities across North America.

Harlequin Enterprises solicits nominations of women who are making notable contributions to their communities.