HarperCollins Revenue and Competitors

HarperCollins UK is the most diverse major book publishing group in the UK. It publishes a wider range of books than any other publisher, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction, to block-busting thrillers, from fantasy literature and children's stories to enduring classics. It also publishes an impressive selection of non-fiction titles, including history, celebrity memoirs, biographies, popular science, plus mind, body and spirit, dictionaries, maps, reference titles and education books. With nearly 200 years of history HarperCollins publishes some of the world's foremost authors including Tony Parsons, Michael Crichton, Paulo Coelho, J G Ballard, Frank McCourt, Annie Proulx, Jonathan Franzen, Nigel Slater, Barbara Taylor Bradford, Bernard Cornwell and Dean Koontz. In addition it publishes the works of Agatha Christie, J R R Tolkien and C S Lewis. It currently publishes around 1500 books a year and was voted Publisher of the Year at the British Book Awards in March 2002. The UK publishing is divided into three divisions - Collins, General Books and Press Books. HarperCollinsUK is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English-language book publishers in the world, with operations in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. HarperCollins Publishers is a wholly-owned division of News Corporation, the media conglomerate and parent of Times Newspapers Ltd, British Sky Broadcasting and Twentieth Century Fox. Progressive Publishing: Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, HarperCollins is committed to reaching customers on the Web by providing robust content in a wide variety of digital formats. HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse for its authors enabling it to distribute digital content to retail, search, community and other on-line partners, as well as to www.harpercollins.co.uk. A "Browse Inside" application, launched in August 2006, allows online visitors to www.harpercollins.co.uk an in-depth look at books that spark their interest.