These imprints are now published under the rubric of HarperCollins. News Corporation purchased the Hearst Book Group, consisting of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books, in 1999. In 1996, HarperCollins sold Scott Foresman and HarperCollins College to Pearson, which merged them with Addison-Wesley Longman. Lippincott & Co., its medical publishing division, to the Dutch publisher Wolters Kluwer. In addition to the simplified and merged name, the logo for HarperCollins was derived from the torch logo for Harper and Row, and the fountain logo for Collins, which were combined into a stylized depiction of flames atop waves. Main article: Harper (publisher) Mergers and acquisitions Ĭollins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1989, and was combined with Harper & Row, which NewsCorp had acquired two years earlier. The company publishes many different imprints, both former independent publishing houses and new imprints.

HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, India, and China. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987-whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers (founded in 1817) and Row, Peterson & Company-together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan.

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