Example sentences for: harpercollins

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  • 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."

  • And the NYT page-ones a story that publishing giant HarperCollins is reacting to the slump in book sales by canceling completed books, including some already advertised in its catalogs.

  • In a scoop last Friday, the Daily Telegraph revealed the circumstances under which a Murdoch publishing company, the London subsidiary of HarperCollins, had canceled publication of the memoirs of Britain's last governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, for which it had already paid an advance of $200,000.

  • (They claimed that Patten's manuscript wasn't up to the mark, when its editor at HarperCollins, Stuart Proffitt, was already on record as finding it the most lucid and intelligent book he had ever received from a politician.)


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