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The News Corporation Limited 34
The award-winning and best-selling titles of HarperCollins Publishers
make News Corporation a leading provider of quality books worldwide.
Despite a slowdown across the book publishing industry, HarperCollins
once again achieved exceptional success during fiscal 2003. In its
sixth consecutive year of record profits, the company continued to pub-
lish a vast array of admired titles across its divisions in the U.S., the
U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Rayo, HarperCollins’ new
Spanish/English imprint devoted to Latino readers, more than doubled
its sales. Zondervan, the company’s Evangelical Christian division,
published the top five best-selling Bibles in the U.S. as well as one of
the year’s most popular breakout books, The Purpose Driven Life. And
in September 2003, HarperCollins will relaunch its Amistad imprint,
dedicated to publishing titles for and about African Americans. From
the ongoing desire for treasured classics like Goodnight Moon and
Charlotte’s Web to the global demand for new titles like Prey by
Michael Crichton, HarperCollins continued to supply the reading
public with outstanding books while setting the highest operational
standards in publishing.
During fiscal 2003, HarperCollins posted 111 titles on the
New York Times bestseller lists, including 13 titles that reached
the number-one position
For a single week in February, HarperCollins had a record
27 titles on the New York Times bestseller lists
best-selling
BOOK PUBLISHING
➤In April, HarperCollins Children’s Books achieved an industry first: a clean sweep of the New York Times’
children’s bestseller list, with 10 out of 10 titles
➤HarperCollins UK posted 41 titles on the Sunday Times bestseller list, including six at number one
➤In July 2002, HarperCollins announced a partnership with one of India’s leading media companies
to publish and distribute books in India
➤In September 2002, the group announced plans to publish an innovative English-Chinese dictionary in China,
a groundbreaking publication for the more than 250 million English-language speakers in that country
➤HarperCollins’ PerfectBound, the world’s only global English-language e-book imprint, launched
e-bookstores in the U.S., the U.K., Canada and Australia and made e-books available for the first
time to public libraries across the U.S.
➤Zondervan’s The Purpose Driven Life, which has sold more than 4.5 million copies, was voted Book
of the Year by the Christian Booksellers Association