Harper Collins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers, with headquarters in New York City . They are one of the giants in the publishing world. Harper Collins Publishing is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, reference, religious and spiritual books. The company has revenues that top $1 billion annually. Its website is www.harpercollins.com.
The HarperCollins organization was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper. Now, HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and India. The HarperCollins company has continued an impressive trend of rising profits over the last seven years, allowing the company to further broaden and strengthen its publishing program through acquisitions of such publishers as the Ecco Press, Avon Books, Amistad Press, and Fourth Estate, to name a few.
The main HarperCollins groups are:
- HarperCollins General Books Group
- HarperCollins Children's Books
- HarperCollins UK
- HarperCollins Australia/New Zealand
- HarperCollins Canada
- Zondervan.
There are many different imprint publishing groups that fall underneath the General Books Group and the Children's Books Group.
Some of the most popular authors that HarperCollins has published are:
- Michael Crichton
- Robert Atkins
- Clive Barker
- Jim Collins
- Jamie Lee Curtis
- Jack Welch
- Emeril Lagasse
