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HISTORY Collins was a Scottish printing company founded by a Presbyterian schoolmaster, William Collins , in Glasgow in 1819 , in partnership with Charles Chalmers, the younger brother of Thomas Chalmers , minister of Tron Church , Glasgow. The company had to overcome many early obstacles, and Charles Chalmers left the business in 1825. The company eventually found success in 1841 as a printer of Bible s, and in 1848 Collins's son Sir William Collins developed the firm as a publishing venture, specialising in Religious and Education al Book s. The company was renamed William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. in 1868 . Keir, David (1952). ''The House of Collins: The Story of a Scottish Family of Publishers from 1789 to the Present Day''. Collins: London. ISBN B00005XH0X. Although the early emphasis of the company had been on religion and education, Collins also published more widely. In 1917 , with Sir Godfrey Collins in charge, the firm started publishing fiction. William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd. published all but the first six of Agatha Christie 's novels. Upon purchasing the rights to the works of C.S. Lewis , Fount was established as Collins's religion imprint. HarperCollins Children's Books has a long tradition in the industry, and has one of the best ). The writer Charlotte Zolotow , who began her career as a stenographer to Nordstrom, became her protege, and went on to write more than 80 books of her own (including those of , as well as to edit hundreds of others, including Nordstrom's own book, The Secret Language, and those of Paul Fleischman . Zolotow was later made the children's book department head, then went on to become the company's first female vice president. Finally, she had her own imprint, CZ Books. Today, the HarperCollins children's division publishes bestsellers from Lemony Snicket , Neil Gaiman , and Jamie Lee Curtis . In 1989 Collins was bought by Rupert Murdoch 's News Corporation . Joined together with the New York-based publisher Harper & Row in 1987 , they now trade under the name HarperCollins. In 2003 , Ecco, an Imprint of HarperCollins, published Edith Grossman 's new Translation of Cervantes 's '' Don Quixote '', to great acclaim. ''Collins'' is still used as an Imprint , chiefly for Wildlife and Natural History books (including the on-going New Naturalist Series ) and Field Guide s, as well as English and bilingual dictionaries based on the Bank Of English , a large Corpus of contemporary English texts. In 1999 , News Corporation purchased the Hearst Book Group consisting of William Morrow & Company and Avon Books . {Link without Title} Its web site home page describes it as "Home of William Morrow, Avon, Perennial, Rayo, Amistad, Caedmon Audio, Regan Books". In 2007, the company published a new series of books entitled '' Stranger Than... '', which include though-provoking works of non-fiction. IMPRINTS HarperCollins has over 30 book Imprint s, most of which are based in the United States . {Link without Title}
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