HarperCollins Publishers
195 Broadway, New York, NY, 10007, United States
Overview
HarperCollins is an English language publisher. It has published a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics expanding over the years to include legendary authors such as H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis. Today, HarperCollins is known as a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business, children’s, and cook books as well as mystery, romance, reference, religious, and spiritual books. Consistently at the forefront of innovation and technological advancement, HarperCollins is the first publisher to digitize its content and create a global digital warehouse to protect the rights of its authors, meet consumer demands, and generate additional business opportunities. With additional publishing groups in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and India, HarperCollins is known as the house of Mark Twain, the Bronte sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown. HarperCollins was founded in 1817 by James and John Harper in New York, United States.
- Total investments
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- Lead investments
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- Investments · 12mo
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- Active investors
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Sector focus
- Books
- Education
- Printing
- Publishing
Investment portfolio
- LibreDigital
Participated · Series C · May 2010
LibreDigital develops technology to help consumers discover and read books, newspapers and magazines across devices and marketplaces, and provides secure HTML5 readers for publishers. The company powers promotion, sales and on-demand delivery across platforms including Apple iPad/iBookstore, Amazon, Google, Barnes & Noble NOOK and Sony. LibreDigital says it has powered digital reading for ten years and has served billions of page views to millions of readers worldwide. It provides e-book distribution for 7 of the 10 largest US trade publishers and distributes to more than 50 digital retail marketplaces. The company also supplies high-resolution magazine and newspaper content to color reading platforms and provides electronic replica editions for publishers such as The New York Times. The new funding is intended to accelerate product delivery and expand its reading technology offerings across books, magazines and newspapers. LibreDigital provides a web-based platform that allows publishers to store, manage and deliver digital books, newspapers and magazines to marketplaces and devices. Its solutions support delivery to channels such as the Apple iBookstore, the Blio eReader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble NOOK and Sony Reader. Customers named in the article include HarperCollins Publishers, Hachette Book Group, Kaplan, Simon & Schuster and Scholastic. The company operates from Austin, TX and also maintains offices in New York City and London. LibreDigital plans to use the newly raised capital to expand e-book services for publishers aiming to capitalize on growing e-book demand driven by new devices like the Apple iPad. The article does not disclose revenue or other operating metrics.
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