| LC control no. | n 90719451 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Corporate name heading | HarperCollins (Firm) |
| Variant(s) | HarperCollins Publishers HarperCollins College Publishers Harper Collins (Firm) Harper Collins Publishers |
| See also | Hierarchical superior: News Corporation Hierarchical superior: News Corp (Firm : 2013) Component of merger: Harper & Row, Publishers Component of merger: William Collins Sons and Co. |
| Other standard no. | 0000000123646136 129138489 Q95149 |
| Beginning date | 1989 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Publishers and publishing |
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| Found in | George, Jean Craighead, 1919- Thirteen moons. His The moon of the salamanders, 1992: CIP t.p. (HarperCollins Publishers) Financial markets, institutions,and money, c1995: t.p. (HarperCollins College Publishers) spine (Harper Collins) Collins essential road atlas Britain, 2012 New York times, March 30, 2021: in an article entitled "HarperCollins to buy Houghton Mifflin's Books and Media" on page B4 (HarperCollins, one of the five largest publishing companies in the United States, agreed to buy Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books and Media, the trade publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; HarperCollins, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, will be better able to compete as publishing has come to be dominated by the biggest players; HarperCollins is the second largest trade publisher; a global publisher with more than 120 imprints) Wikipedia, 18 April 2021 (HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the world's largest publishing companies and is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan; the company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp; 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 UK publishing company William Collins, Sons (founded in 1819), acquired in 1989; Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation in 1989, and was combined with Harper & Row, which NewsCorp had acquired two years earlier.) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarperCollins> |
| Associated language | eng |
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