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Conglomeratization: Book publishing is dominated by seven media conglomerates : Paramount (Simon & Schuster), News Corp. (HarperCollins), Bertelsmann AG (Bantam Doubleday Dell), Advance Publications (Random House), Time Warner (Little, Brown), Pearson PLC (Viking Penguin), and Holtzbrinck (Holt).
The tabloid London Evening Standard devoted most of its front page Thursday to the sudden resignation of the editor in chief of Rupert Murdoch's London publishing company, HarperCollins, because Murdoch allegedly had demanded changes in the forthcoming memoirs (to be titled East and West ) of Britain's last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten.
But it grew more evenhanded Monday when it said that HarperCollins was now "fighting a rearguard action to stop a threatened revolt by some of its authors."
Under the headline "Murdoch's China Kow-Tow," the Standard said Murdoch--who in 1994 had prevented the BBC (considered "unfriendly" by China) from using his Star satellite in Asia--feared his Asian broadcasting interests might be damaged if HarperCollins published a book containing strong criticisms of China by a man the Chinese had called "a perfidious whore" and "a drooling idiot."
The Wall Street Journal reports that HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch, was to have published the memoirs of Chris Patten, last British governor of Hong Kong, but the two have parted company.