Who owns HarperCollins?
HarperCollins is owned by News Corp (the United States, NASDAQ: NWSA), which has owned the brand since 1987.[1]
Evidence: News Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-07, SEC EDGAR, 7 August 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- News Corporation verified
- Owned since
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1817
- Category
- Media & entertainment › Publishing › Book publishers
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: NWSA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About HarperCollins
HarperCollins is one of the five largest English-language book publishers, formed from the American Harper & Brothers and the Scottish William Collins. Its authors have included Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters and J. R. R. Tolkien. It is one of the publishers that settled with the Department of Justice over ebook pricing in 2012, a case that reshaped how digital books are sold in America.
What News Corp's annual report says about HarperCollins
Sentences about HarperCollins from News Corp's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Book Publishing The Company's Book Publishing segment consists of HarperCollins, the second largest consumer book publisher in the world based on global revenue, with operations in 15 countries.
HarperCollins publishes and distributes consumer books globally through print and digital formats.
HarperCollins owns more than 120 branded imprints, including Harper, William Morrow, Mariner, HarperCollins Children's Books, Avon, Harlequin and Christian publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson.
How often News Corp names HarperCollins in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of HarperCollins
Where HarperCollins sits in News Corp
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by News Corp
News Corp controls 6 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in media & entertainment.
Also in media & entertainment
- Dow Jones (1882)
- The Sun (1964)
- The Times (1785)
- The Wall Street Journal (1889)
Other brands in book publishers, and who owns them
The 34 brands in book publishers on Brandtree belong to 9 owners. The largest is Lagardère, with 13.
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|---|---|---|
| Bragelonne | Lagardère | 🇫🇷 France |
| Bokfabriken | Storytel | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Clifford the Big Red Dog | Scholastic | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Macmillan Education | Springer Nature | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Dummies | Wiley | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Penguin Books | Bertelsmann | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Kids Can Press | Corus | 🇨🇦 Canada |
| Kadokawa Bunko | Kadokawa | 🇯🇵 Japan |
About the owner: News Corp
News Corp is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, New York, United States, founded in 2013. Brandtree records 6 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: NWSA.
News Corp holds the Murdoch family's newspaper and book publishing interests, separated in 2013 from the television and film business after the British phone hacking scandal. It owns titles that shape political coverage in three countries.
🇺🇸 HarperCollins and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; HarperCollins is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of HarperCollins?
The parent company of HarperCollins is News Corp, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is HarperCollins American?
Yes. HarperCollins originated in the United States in 1817 and its owner, News Corp, is also headquartered in the United States.
Since when has News Corp owned HarperCollins?
News Corp has owned HarperCollins since 1987.
Is HarperCollins still owned by News Corp?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, HarperCollins is still owned by News Corp. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] News Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-08-07 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 7 August 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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