HarperCollins Publishers

HarperCollinsPublishers, whose head office is in New York, is one of the world's leading English-language publishers. It is a division of the global media organisation News Corporation and has significant publishing interests in Canada, the U.K. and ANZ as well as Asian Markets.

HarperCollins was established in 1989 with the amalgamation of Harper and Row (USA), William Collins (UK) and Angus and Robertson (Australia). This union of strong global publishers resulted in a uniquely powerful company, with the literary heritage of each augmented by the international reach of News Corporation.

The company has continued an impressive trend of rising profits over the last few years, allowing it to further broaden and strengthen its publishing programme through acquisition. In 1999, HarperCollins acquired William Morrow & Company and Avon Books, two prominent US publishers with long and distinguished histories, and Fourth Estate in the UK.

Today, HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children's books, cookbooks, general interest, religious and spiritual books.