HarperCollins Publishers is one of the best English-language publishers in the world. It is a subsidiary of News Corporation and is headquartered at New York. Harper Collins was founded by brothers James Harper and John Harper in 1817. In 1987, the famous News Corporation acquired Harper Collins. Later in 1990, News Corporation acquired the British publisher William Collins& Sons, and since then it has been known as an international publishing house. William Collins & Sons was into publishing of different versions of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics. It had also owned the publishing rights of many legendary authors such as H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis.

At present, Harper Collins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand, and India. Apart from the publishing rights of the William Collins& Sons, Harper Collins now has the publishing rights of many famous authors like Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown.

To keep up its pace with the technological advancement, Harper Collins has announced the creation of world’s first global digital content warehouse. With this innovative step, Harper Collins will be able to host a large quantity of digital content and distribute it to its retail partners, search engines, and web browsers, in a convenient manner.