HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
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HarperCollins is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp.
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HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China.
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HarperCollins publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.
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In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins College to Pearson, which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman.
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HarperCollins bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale in March 2010.
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In 2011, HarperCollins announced they had agreed to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson.
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In 2014, HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million.
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In 2018, HarperCollins acquired the business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association.
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In 2020, HarperCollins acquired the children's publishers Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland and Schneiderbuch Germany from the Egmont Group.
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Brian Murray, the current CEO of HarperCollins, succeeded Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008.
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HarperCollins previously closed two US warehouses, one in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012.
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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".
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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.
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HarperCollins 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 acquired the publishing rights to JR R Tolkien's work in 1990 when Unwin Hyman was bought.
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HarperCollins has more than 120 book imprints, most of which are based in the United States.
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In 2008, HarperCollins 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, 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 formerly operated authonomy, an online community of authors, from 2008 to 2015.
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In March 2011, HarperCollins announced it would distribute ebooks to libraries with DRM enabled to delete the item after being lent 26 times.
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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.
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