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51-651: Dreaming Down-Under was first published in Australia in November 1998 by Voyager Books in trade paperback format. In 1999 and 2000 it was republished as two separate volumes. It was released in the United Kingdom by Swift Publishers in 2000 and in the United States by Tor Books in hardback and paperback formats in 2001 and 2002 respectively. Dreaming Down-Under won the 1999 World Fantasy Award for best anthology and

102-700: A 40% stake in Collins since 1981 and became the sole owner in 1989. News Corp merged the two publishers in 1989, combining the name as HarperCollins and creating a logo with a stylized depiction of flames atop waves derived from the torch logo for Harper & Row and the fountain logo for Collins. In 1990, HarperCollins sold J. B. Lippincott & Co. , its medical publishing division, to the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer . In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins College to Pearson , which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman . News Corporation purchased

153-541: A Nashville, Tennessee, warehouse, under the name Thomas Nelson (which distributes the religious arm of HarperCollins/Zondervan Books), in the winter of 2013. Several office positions and departments continued to work for HarperCollins in Scranton, but in a new location. The Scranton warehouse closing eliminated about 200 jobs, and the Nashville warehouse closing eliminated up to 500 jobs; the exact number of distribution employees

204-402: A podcast produced by the department, provides interviews with authors of noteworthy titles. HarperCollins announced HarperStudio in 2008 as a "new, experimental unit... that will 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. The approach HarperStudio

255-683: A significant move into fiction in 1917 under the leadership of Godfrey Collins . The Collins Crime Club imprint published many works in the Golden Age of Detective Fiction , including novels by Agatha Christie and Rex Stout . The religious imprint Fount would be home to C. S. Lewis . Collins would become the British Commonwealth publisher for a number of popular American juvenile series and authors, including The Hardy Boys , Nancy Drew , and Dr. Seuss . Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation acquired Harper & Row in 1987. News Corp had owned

306-419: Is a wholly owned subsidiary of HarperCollins Worldwide. It came into being in 1992. James Harper (publisher) James Harper (April 13, 1795 – March 27, 1869) was an American publisher and politician in the early-to-mid 19th century. Along with his brother, John, James Harper formed publishing company J. & J. Harper (now Harper ) in 1817. He incorporated his brothers Joseph and Fletcher Harper into

357-556: Is headquartered in New York City and London and is a subsidiary of News Corp . The company's name is derived from a combination of the firm's predecessors. Harper & Brothers , founded in 1817, merged with Row, Peterson & Company in 1962 to form Harper & Row , which was acquired by News Corp in 1987. The Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons , founded in 1819, was acquired by News Corp in 1989 and merged with Harper & Row to form HarperCollins. The logo for

408-517: Is now taking is to offer little or no advance, but instead to split the profit 50% (rather than the industry standard 15%), with the author." The division was headed by Bob Miller, previously the founding publisher of Hyperion , the adult books division of the Walt Disney Company . HarperStudio folded in March 2010 after Miller left for Workman Publishing . HarperCollins Publishers India Pvt Ltd.

459-482: Is set to rise to $ 50,000 by 2025. Additionally, full-time employees in the union will receive a lump sum payment of $ 1,500. The contract also allows workers making less than $ 60,000 to file for two hours of overtime pay per week without approval from a manager, and puts measures in place to compensate junior-level staff for diversity and inclusion work which is typically unpaid in the industry. The workers returned to their duties on February 21. HarperCollins maintains

510-401: Is the academic marketing department of HarperCollins. HarperAcademic provides instructors with the latest in adult titles for course adoption at the high school and college level, as well as titles for first-year and other common read programs at academic institutions. They also attend several major academic conferences to showcase new titles for academic professionals. HarperAcademic Calling ,

561-561: Is the first lecture agency to be created by a major publishing house. It was launched in May 2005 as a division of HarperCollins to book paid speaking engagements for the authors HarperCollins, and its sister companies, publish. Andrea Rosen is the director. Some of the notable authors the HCSB represents include Carol Alt , Dennis Lehane , Gregory Maguire , Danny Meyer , Mehmet Oz , Sidney Poitier , Ted Sorensen , and Kate White . HarperAcademic

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612-509: Is unknown. HarperCollins previously closed two US warehouses, one in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 2011 and another in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in 2012. "We have taken a long-term, global view of our print distribution and are committed to offering the broadest possible reach for our authors," said HarperCollins Chief Executive Brian Murray, according to Publishers Weekly . "We are retooling

663-673: The American Revolution , establishing himself as a teacher and farmer. As a boy, he read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , and decided that he would like to pursue a career as a printer because of Franklin's success in the field. An apprenticeship was subsequently arranged with a family friend, Abraham Paul, who was a partner in the New York print shop of Paul & Thomas. James' younger brother John (January 22, 1797 – April 22, 1875) began his printing apprenticeship at another printer in

714-597: The Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story . While "The Third Rail" by Aaron Sterns was a shortlist nominee for the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story, "Jetsam" by Kerry Greenwood was a shortlist nominee for best fantasy short story in the Aurealis Awards, "Real Men" by Rosaleen Love was a shortlist nominee for the Aurealis Award for best science fiction short story and "The Body Politic" by Tess Williams

765-620: The News Corporation banner. Harper was born in Newtown , New York , on April 13, 1795, the eldest of four sons born to Joseph Henry Harper (1750-1838), a farmer, carpenter, and storekeeper, and Elizabeth Kolyer, daughter of Jacobus Kolyer (1749-1819) and Jane Miller. Harper's paternal grandfather was James Harper, who was born in Scotland and emigrated to Philadelphia , then settled in Newtown before

816-467: The 1970s, with Crowell and the trade operations of Lippincott merged into Harper & Row in 1980. In 1988, Harper & Row purchased the religious publisher Zondervan , including subsidiary Marshall Pickering . William Collins, Sons was established in Glasgow in 1819 by Presbyterian schoolmaster William Collins . The firm's early emphasis was on religion and education, but diversified over time, making

867-477: The 1998 Aurealis Award for Best Science Fiction Short Story , while "To Avalon" by Jane Routley and "Queen of Soulmates" by Sean McMullen were also shortlist nominees for the Aurealis Award for Best Fantasy Short Story and "The Marsh Runners" by Paul Brandon was also a shortlist nominee for the Aurealis Award for Best Horror Short Story . Another winning story was " A Walk-On Part in the War " by Stephen Dedman which won

918-752: The 1999 Ditmar Award for best Australian magazine or anthology. It was also a shortlist nominee for the 1998 Aurealis Award 's Peter McNamara Conveners' Award for Excellence and it finished 16th out of 20 in the Locus Award for Best Anthology. The 1999 Ditmar Award for Best Short Fiction had six shortlist nominees all of which were taken from Dreaming Down-Under : "The Marsh Runners" by Paul Brandon, "Dream Until God Burns" by Andrew Enstice, "To Avalon" by Jane Routley , "The Evil Within" by Sara Douglass , and "Queen of Soulmates" by Sean McMullen , which were all nominees lost to "The Truth About Weena" by David J. Lake . "The Truth About Weena" by David J. Lake also won

969-515: The Hearst Book Group, consisting of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books , in 1999. These imprints are now published under the rubric of HarperCollins. HarperCollins bought educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale in March 2010. In 2011, HarperCollins announced they had agreed to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson . The purchase was completed on 11 July 2012, with an announcement that Thomas Nelson would operate independently given

1020-548: The Purple Crayon . They were the publishing home of Maurice Sendak , Shel Silverstein , and Margaret Wise Brown . In 1998, Nordstrom's personal correspondence was published as Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom (illustrated by Maurice Sendak ), edited by Charlotte Zolotow . Zolotow began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protégé , and went on to write more than 80 books and edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's The Secret Language and

1071-483: The United States Department of Justice filed United States v. Apple Inc. , naming Apple , HarperCollins, and four other major publishers as defendants. The suit alleged that they conspired to fix prices for e-books , and weaken Amazon.com 's position in the market, in violation of antitrust law . In December 2013, a federal judge approved a settlement of the antitrust claims, in which HarperCollins and

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1122-599: The United States. Collins 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. HarperCollins' imprints, including current and defunct imprints prior to various mergers, include: In 2008, HarperCollins launched a browsing feature on its website where customers can read selected excerpts from books before purchasing, on both desktop and mobile browsers. This functionality gave

1173-548: 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. Authors published originally by Harper include Mark Twain , the Brontë sisters , and William Makepeace Thackeray . Authors published originally by Collins include H. G. Wells and Agatha Christie . HarperCollins also acquired the publishing rights to J. R. R. Tolkien 's work in 1990 when Unwin Hyman

1224-654: The business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association . In 2020, HarperCollins acquired the children's publishers Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland and Schneiderbuch Germany from the Egmont Group . On 29 March 2021, HarperCollins announced that it would acquire HMH Books & Media, the trade publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , for $ 349 million. The deal would allow HMH to pay down its debt and focus on digital education. The deal

1275-500: The city within two years. In 1817, the two brothers learned what they could of the profession and felt ready to try their hand at running their own printing business. In 1817 the brothers founded J. & J. Harper in New York at the corner of Dover and Front streets; James was nearly 22, and John was 20. The business was supported by a loan from their father to purchase two Rampage printing presses, some typesetting stock, and simple binding equipment. In 1817 Paul received an order from

1326-430: The company also broadened its printing business to include publishing services. The firm's first big success was Maria Monk 's Awful Disclosures (1836). Often described as the " Uncle Tom's Cabin of nativism ", the book went on to sell 300,000 copies for Harper & Brothers. It was later disclosed that Theodore Dwight was the actual author of the work, though he claimed it was dictated. The book ostensibly told

1377-615: The company in 1825, changing its name to Harper & Brothers. Harper company's first successful publishing was Maria Monk 's Awful Disclosures in 1836. Eight years later, Harper would be elected as the 65th Mayor of New York City . Beginning his term as mayor in 1844, his tenure would be cut short by an ousting in April 1845. Outside of publishing and politics, Harper was a trustee of Vassar College until his death in 1869. Harper's company would later be merged with another publisher to form Harper & Row in 1962 and HarperCollins in 1990 under

1428-474: The company was merged with William Collins publishers in 1990, resulting in its current name, HarperCollins . HarperCollins had sales of US$ 1,162 million in 2004 and employed over 3,000 people worldwide. In 1844 Harper was elected mayor of New York for a one-year term on the American Republican ticket, defeating Locofoco Party candidate Jonathan I. Coddington and Whig Morris Franklin . Harper won

1479-489: The company. The UAW union made the decision to strike after drawn-out negotiations between it and HarperCollins, which resulted in members "working without a contract since April." According to a spokesperson, HarperCollins "has agreed to a number of proposals that the UAW is seeking to include in a new contract" and "is disappointed an agreement has not been reached" but "will continue to negotiate in good faith." On 21 December 2022

1530-567: The election by 4,316 votes. He reformed the city police force and established the first municipal police force in 1844, based on planning undertaken earlier by Peter Cooper . In-fighting between the city alderman delayed the full implementation of the reform plan, and Harper could only select 200 men for the force before voters ousted him in April 1845. He outfitted his "Harper's Police" in blue uniforms, which they felt made them targets of violence, and they lobbied successfully to wear street clothes. His successor William Havemeyer continued to reform

1581-444: The firm combines the fire from Harper's torch and the water from Collins' fountain. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The company publishes different imprints , including former independent publishing houses and new imprints. The company's worldwide CEO is Brian Murray. The earliest of the publishing firms that comprise HarperCollins

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1632-402: The five highest-ranked manuscripts each month would be read by HarperCollins editors for potential publication. The site was closed after authors "learned to game the system" to earn top-five rankings, and fewer authonomy titles were selected to be published. From 2009 to 2010, HarperCollins operated BookArmy , a social networking site. The HarperCollins Speakers Bureau (also known as HCSB)

1683-452: The imprint J. & J. Harper. This book was followed in 1818 with an edition of John Locke 's An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1818), which they issued under the J. & J. Harper imprint as a publisher rather than merely printer. A description of Harper from this time can be found in Glyndon G. van Deusen's 1944 essay on Thurlow Weed , an acquaintance and fellow printer: Harper

1734-424: The local put their in-person picketing on "pause" to give strikers an opportunity to spend time with their loved ones. The picketing resumed as scheduled on 3 January 2023. After three months of negotiations, the union agreed to a new contract with HarperCollins on February 16, 2023. Under the new terms, the annual starting pay of HarperCollins employees has increased from $ 45,000 to $ 47,500 upon ratification, and

1785-487: The media that the deal represents the first time that the publisher has released such a large portion of its catalog. HarperCollins formerly operated authonomy , an online community of authors, from 2008 to 2015. The website offered an alternative to the traditional " slush pile " approach for handling unsolicited manuscripts sent to a publisher with little chance of being reviewed. Using authonomy, authors could submit their work for peer review and ranking by other members;

1836-538: The other publishers paid into a fund that provided credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to the price-fixing . On 5 November 2012, HarperCollins announced to employees privately and then later in the day publicly that it was closing its remaining two US warehouses, to merge shipping and warehousing operations with R. R. Donnelley in Indiana. The Scranton, Pennsylvania, warehouse closed in September 2013 and

1887-419: The police force, successfully expanded the workforce to 800, and began the establishment of station houses. Harper banished free-roaming pigs from the streets of New York and began work on establishing a citywide sanitation system. He was subsequently put forward for the state's governorship, but he preferred to conduct his firm's business rather than enter public life. Harper lived at 50 Rose Street while he

1938-690: The position it has in Christian book publishing. Both Thomas Nelson and Zondervan were then organized as imprints, or "keystone publishing programs," under a new division, HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Key roles in the reorganization were awarded to former Thomas Nelson executives. In 2012, HarperCollins acquired part of the trade operations of John Wiley & Son in Canada. In 2014, HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$ 455 million. In 2018, HarperCollins acquired

1989-549: The prominent New York bookseller Evert Duyckinck for 2,000 copies of an English translation of Seneca's Morals ("Seneca's morals by way of abstract", translated by Roger L'Estrange and first published in England in 1678.) Paul gave the order to his young apprentices, James and John, who did the printing, working with their younger brothers Joseph Wesley (December 25, 1801 – February 14, 1870) and Fletcher (January 31, 1806 – May 29, 1877) who aided in setting type, and issued it under

2040-464: The publication of Awful Disclosures , Harper was elected mayor of New York, running on a Know-Nothing , Nativist platform of anti-Catholicism and anti-immigration. Monk's book had a brief revival in the 1960s during John F. Kennedy 's run for the presidency of the United States. Harper & Brothers became Harper & Row in 1962 when the firm merged with Row, Petersen & Co. Following News Corporation 's acquisition of Harper & Row in 1987,

2091-662: The publisher's website the ability to compete with physical bookstores, in which customers can typically look at the book itself, and Amazon's use of excerpts ("teasers") for online book purchasers. At the beginning of October 2013, the company announced a partnership with online digital library Scribd . The official statement revealed that the "majority" of the HarperCollins US and HarperCollins Christian catalogs will be available in Scribd's subscription service. Chantal Restivo-Alessi, chief digital officer at HarperCollins, explained to

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2142-499: The story of a Canadian woman who claimed to have been a nun sexually exploited in her convent. The work was published during a time of extreme anti-Catholicism in the United States and was used by politicians and anti-Catholic activists to seed discontent and incite riots. In the words of the historian Ray Allen Billington, it became "the most influential single work of anti-Catholic propaganda in America's history". Within eight years of

2193-475: The traditional distribution model to ensure we can competitively offer the entire HarperCollins catalog to customers regardless of location." Company officials attribute the closings and mergers to the rapidly growing demand for e-book formats and the decline in print purchasing. In June 2020, HarperCollins was one of a group of publishers who sued the Internet Archive , arguing that its collection of e-books

2244-455: The works of Paul Fleischman . Zolotow later became head of the children's books department, and went on to become the company's first female vice president. The Chronicles of Narnia series by C. S. Lewis , while not originally published by a merged imprint of HarperCollins, was acquired by the publisher. HarperCollins has published these notable children's books: HarperCollins has more than 120 book imprints , most of which are based in

2295-410: Was a big fellow with a prejudice against liquor, but with such a jovial nature that he became known among the hard-drinking printers as "the teetotaler who was never sober". James founded the printshop J. & J. Harper with his brother John in 1817. The name was changed to Harper & Brothers in 1825 when the two other brothers, Wesley & Fletcher Harper , joined the firm. With the name change,

2346-464: Was a long-list nominee 1999 James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award . Dreaming Down-Under features 31 stories from 30 authors. Voyager Books HarperCollins Publishers LLC is a British-American publishing company that is considered to be one of the " Big Five " English-language publishers, along with Penguin Random House , Hachette , Macmillan , and Simon & Schuster . HarperCollins

2397-556: Was bought. Following is a list of some of the more noted books and series published by HarperCollins and their various imprints and merged publishing houses. Children's book editor Ursula Nordstrom was the director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973, overseeing the publication of classics such as Goodnight Moon , Where the Wild Things Are , The Giving Tree , Charlotte's Web , Beverly Cleary 's series starring Ramona Quimby , and Harold and

2448-480: Was challenged by experts. The notary's family members threatened a lawsuit and started a foundation. The Dutch publisher withdrew the book, but HarperCollins has not taken any definitive decision. On 10 November 2022, approximately 250 unionized workers at HarperCollins began an indefinite strike. Local 2110 of the United Auto Workers (UAW) union includes people in design, marketing, publicity, and sales for

2499-622: Was completed on 10 May. As of 7 July 2021, HMH's adult books will be published as Mariner Books, while HMH's children's books will be published as Clarion Books. In 2021, HarperCollins acquired the British publishers Pavilion Books. In 2022 HarperCollins acquired Cider Mill Press. Brian Murray, the current CEO of HarperCollins, succeeded Jane Friedman who was CEO from 1997 to 2008. Notable management figures include Lisa Sharkey , current senior vice president and director of creative development and Barry Winkleman from 1989 to 1994. In April 2012,

2550-513: Was denying authors and publishers revenue and accusing the library of "willful mass copyright infringement". 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. A 2022 book written by Rosemary Sullivan , with HarperCollins as main publisher, designated a Jewish notary as the most likely suspect in Anne Frank 's betrayal. The conclusion

2601-677: Was founded in 1817 by James Harper and his brother John, initially operating under the name J & J Harper. They were later joined by two other brothers, Joseph Wesley and Fletcher Harper , with the firm becoming Harper & Brothers in 1833. Harper & Brothers originated several notable magazine publications in the nineteenth century that would later be sold or discontinued, including Harper's Magazine , Harper's Weekly , Harper's Bazaar , and Harper's Young People . In 1962, Harper & Brothers merged with Row, Peterson & Company to become Harper & Row . The firm acquired Thomas Y. Crowell Co. and J. B. Lippincott & Co. in

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