Harper Collins Publisher Profile: From Harper & Row and William Collins & Sons to News Corporation

HarperCollins, together with Random House, Penguin and Simon & Schuster, is one of the largest English-language publishers in the world. The HarperCollins Book Group is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and was founded after merging the British publisher William Collins & Sons with Harper & Row in 1990.

HarperCollins Children’s Books

Since the 1940s, Harper’s Department of Books for Boys and Girls published books instantly loved by millions of children’s that are classics today such as Goodnight Moon (1947), Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (1952) and Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963). Collins’ Armada Books imprint published popular British children’s series like The Three Investigators, Paddington Bear and Enid Blyton’s many hits.

Today, HarperCollins is well known as a children’s publisher whose books consistently rank on bestseller lists. The company has many imprints dedicated to specific children’s book areas such as

The History of HarperCollins

The brothers James and John Harper started with a printing business in New York in the early 19th century and branched out into publishing soon after. Harper & Brothers were known early on for popular publications like the family newspaper Harper’s Weekly Magazine (1857), Harper’s Bazar (1867) and authors like Edgar Allen Poe, the Brontë sisters, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens and Mark Twain.

Like the Harper brothers, William Collins started with a printing business in the earlty 19th century but on the other side of the Atlantic in Glasgow. He overcame initial obstacles by specializing in printing bibles from 1841 onwards. In 1848, Collins’ son ventured into publishing and focused on religious and educational texts. The company expanded its range and started publishing fiction in 1917. It was well known for its bibles, atlases, dictionaries and reissued classics. Its probably most widely used publication is Collins English Dictionary.

Mergers and Acquisitions that Created HarperCollins

The origins of HarperCollins started almost 200 years ago with two printing businesses on either side of the Atlantic. Here are some of the milestones from printers and specialized publishers to international publishing group:

Interesting about the history of HarperCollins is the similarity of the two established companies Harper & Row and William Collins & Sons on both sides of the Atlantic. Both started out as printing ventures in the early 19th century, switched to publishing a few decades later and soon expanded their narrow lists to encompass a wide range of publishing products.

Readers interested in HarperCollins may also want to read three publisher profiles of the world's largest English language publishers Random House, Simon & Schuster and the Penguin Group.

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