HarperCollins
Anglo-American publishing house
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| February 21 2023 | HarperCollins workers returned to their duties following the resolution of the strike, with new contract terms including overtime pay provisions and compensation for diversity and inclusion work. |
| February 16 2023 | After three months of negotiations, the union agreed to a new contract with HarperCollins, which included raising the annual starting pay from $45,000 to $47,500, with a future increase to $50,000 by 2025. |
| January 3 2023 | The HarperCollins workers' strike picketing resumed as originally scheduled. |
| 2022 | HarperCollins published a book by Rosemary Sullivan that identified a Jewish notary as the most likely person responsible for betraying Anne Frank, sparking significant controversy among historical experts and leading to potential legal challenges from the notary's family. |
| 2022 | HarperCollins acquired Cider Mill Press. |
| December 21 2022 | UAW Local 2110 paused in-person picketing to allow strikers to spend time with their loved ones during the holiday period. |
| November 10 2022 | Approximately 250 unionized workers at HarperCollins began an indefinite strike, involving employees from design, marketing, publicity, and sales departments, after working without a contract since April. |
| 2021 | HarperCollins acquired the British publisher Pavilion Books. |
| May 10 2021 | HarperCollins completed the acquisition of HMH Books & Media, with HMH's adult books to be published as Mariner Books and children's books as Clarion Books. |
| March 29 2021 | HarperCollins announced the acquisition of HMH Books & Media, the trade publishing division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, for $349 million. |
| 2020 | HarperCollins acquired children's publishers Egmont Books UK, Egmont Poland, and Schneiderbuch Germany from the Egmont Group. |
| September 2020 | HarperCollins filed a lawsuit against Lindsay Lohan for failing to deliver a memoir after receiving a $350,000 advance. |
| June 2020 | HarperCollins joined a group of publishers in a lawsuit against the Internet Archive, alleging copyright infringement through the organization's e-book collection and claiming the digital library was denying authors and publishers their rightful revenue. |
| 2018 | HarperCollins acquired the business publisher Amacom from the American Management Association. |
| January 2017 | HarperCollins announced the discontinuation of Monica Crowley's book 'What the (Bleep) Just Happened?' due to confirmed plagiarism, involving copied passages from columns, news articles, and think tank reports. |
| 2015 | HarperCollins closed down the authonomy platform after authors discovered ways to manipulate the manuscript ranking system. |
| 2014 | HarperCollins acquired Canadian romance publisher Harlequin Enterprises for C$455 million. |
| December 2014 | HarperCollins faced controversy when its subsidiary Collins Bartholomew published an atlas for Middle East schools that deliberately omitted Israel from a map of the Middle East. A company representative initially justified the omission as being in line with 'local preferences' of Arab states in the Persian Gulf, claiming that including Israel would be 'unacceptable' to their customers. |
| 2013 | The Nashville, Tennessee warehouse (Thomas Nelson) was closed in winter, eliminating up to 500 jobs in the distribution center. |
| December 2013 | A federal judge approved a settlement for the antitrust claims, with HarperCollins and other publishers paying into a fund to provide credits to customers who had overpaid for books due to price-fixing. |
| October 2013 | HarperCollins announced a partnership with Scribd, making the majority of their US and Christian catalog available through Scribd's subscription service. |
| September 2013 | The Scranton, Pennsylvania warehouse was closed, eliminating approximately 200 jobs in the distribution center. |
| 2012 | HarperCollins closed its warehouse in Grand Rapids, Michigan, continuing its distribution consolidation strategy. |
| 2012 | HarperCollins acquired part of the trade operations of John Wiley & Son in Canada. |
| November 5 2012 | HarperCollins announced the closure of its remaining two US warehouses, privately informing employees and then making a public announcement about merging shipping and warehousing operations with R. R. Donnelley in Indiana. |
| July 11 2012 | HarperCollins completed the acquisition of Thomas Nelson, establishing HarperCollins Christian Publishing with Thomas Nelson and Zondervan as key imprints. |
| April 2012 | HarperCollins was named as a defendant in the United States v. Apple Inc. antitrust lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice, alleging a conspiracy to fix e-book prices and weaken Amazon.com's market position. |
| 2011 | HarperCollins closed its warehouse in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, as part of a strategic restructuring of its distribution operations. |
| 2011 | HarperCollins announced plans to acquire the publisher Thomas Nelson. |
| March 2011 | HarperCollins announced a controversial ebook distribution policy for libraries, implementing DRM that would automatically delete an ebook after it had been lent 26 times, drawing significant criticism for treating digital books like physical books that degrade over time. |
| 2010 | HarperCollins ceased operations of BookArmy social networking site. |
| September 1 2010 | The BBC's legal request for an injunction to prevent publication of Ben Collins' autobiography was rejected by the court, effectively confirming Collins' identity as 'The Stig'. |
| August 2010 | HarperCollins became involved in a legal dispute with the BBC over an upcoming autobiography by Ben Collins that would reveal the identity of 'The Stig' from the TV show Top Gear. |
| March 2010 | HarperStudio was discontinued after Bob Miller, its founding leader, left to join Workman Publishing. |
| March 2010 | HarperCollins bought the educational publisher Letts and Lonsdale. |
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