HarperCollins Publishers Announces the Formation of HarperCollins Brasil
August 03 2015 - 9:11AM
Business Wire
HarperCollins Publishers, a subsidiary of News Corp
(NASDAQ:NWS)(NASDAQ:NWSA)(ASX:NWS)(ASX:NWSLV) and joint venture
partner Ediouro Group today announced the formation of
HarperCollins Brasil, which combines the existing operations of
Thomas Nelson Brasil and Harlequin Brasil with Ediouro’s commercial
trade publishing titles and personnel.
HarperCollins Brasil will publish a select list of approximately
350 titles per year from the HarperCollins trade, children’s,
Christian and romance imprints from around the world, as well as a
focused list of Brazilian authors. The new structure aligns Brazil
with the HarperCollins strategy to build on existing
infrastructures and relationships to grow its authors’
international presence and publish outside of the English language,
as has been done in Germany, Poland, Nordic, Holland, Japan and
Spain.
“We’re excited to announce this new organization and investment
in Brazil, and are committed to expanding our capabilities to
better serve authors there,” said Brian Murray, President and CEO
of HarperCollins Publishers. “This gives us greater scale in a
critical and growing market, and is another step in our plans to
publish our diverse list of authors globally, while also publishing
local authors.”
Antonio Araujo will serve as Executive Director, HarperCollins
Brasil, and is responsible for operations and finance. Kaike Nane
has been named Publisher for the HarperCollins and Harlequin lists.
Omar Alves de Souza will continue as publisher of the Thomas Nelson
Brasil list. Both will report to Mr. Araujo.
“Since 2006, we have had a successful joint venture with
Ediouro, experiencing profitable growth nearly every year since our
founding. We believe we can achieve similar success with the
expanded program under HarperCollins Brasil,” said Tod
Shuttleworth, Senior Vice President of International Publishing,
HarperCollins.
“We are delighted to expand our relationship with HarperCollins
in an effort to align our work in commercial fiction and
non-fiction,” said Jorge Carneiro, CEO of Ediouro. “HarperCollins’
rich heritage and content coupled with our proven capabilities in
editorial, marketing, sales and distribution creates a powerful
combination. We look forward to building the business
together.”
Ediouro will continue to publish a literary and Catholic trade
list outside the joint venture as well as continue with their other
non-trade publishing businesses. Harlequin has ended its joint
venture with Record Publishing Group, which will not have a stake
in HarperCollins Brasil.
About HarperCollins
HarperCollins Publishers is the second largest consumer book
publisher in the world, with operations in 18 countries. With
nearly two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded
imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately
10,000 new books every year in 17 languages, and has a print and
digital catalog of more than 200,000 titles. Writing across dozens
of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel
Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and
Caldecott Medals and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins,
headquartered in New York, is a subsidiary of News Corp
(NASDAQ:NWS, NWSA; ASX:NWS, NWSLV) and can be visited online at
corporate.HC.com.
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HarperCollins PublishersErin Crum,
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