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The HBO Max/Crave series Heated Rivalry has boosted sales of HarperCollins’ Game Changers romance novels, driving a quarterly revenue up to a record $633 million. News Corp reported overall revenue of $2.36 billion, up 6% year over year, with CEO Robert Thomson attributing AI-aware content strategies and strong brand momentum (including Bridgerton titles) as growth drivers.
David Walliams has been removed from the Waterstones Children's Book Festival lineup following allegations of inappropriate behavior towards young women, which he denies. HarperCollins, his publisher, cut ties with him, and he is no longer listed as a speaker at the festival. Walliams, a successful children's author, has not been informed of any allegations and is considering legal action.
HarperCollins promoted David Walliams' new book just hours before announcing they would cease publishing his works following allegations of inappropriate behavior towards women, with internal investigations and concerns about the publisher's handling of the situation.
Best-selling children's author David Walliams has been dropped by HarperCollins UK following an investigation into allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards young women, with the publisher choosing not to publish any new titles by him under its new leadership.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, the internationally acclaimed author of 'A Woman of Substance,' has passed away at 91. Known for her prolific writing career, Bradford authored 40 novels, all bestsellers, with over 91 million copies sold worldwide. Her debut novel remained on The New York Times bestseller list for 43 weeks. Bradford was honored with an Order of the British Empire for her contributions to literature and was deeply involved in literacy advocacy. She will be buried alongside her husband in New York after a private funeral.
O.J. Simpson, acquitted of murder in 1995, later confessed to the crimes in a 2007 book titled "If I Did It," published by ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins. The book's publication led to a controversial interview with Simpson, resulting in public outcry and the loss of Judith Regan's job.
Publisher HarperCollins has edited some passages and removed others from its new digital editions of Agatha Christie's detective mysteries featuring Hercule Poirot and Miss Marple to remove racist references and other language considered offensive to modern audiences. Changes include removing references to a character's Jewish identity and replacing the word "native" with "local." The move follows similar revisions made to Roald Dahl's classic children's books, which divided fans.
HarperCollins will publish new editions of some of Agatha Christie's novels with potentially offensive language removed or revised at the suggestion of sensitivity readers. The changes involve removing references to ethnicity and terms including "Gypsy," "Oriental," "Nubian," "natives," and the N-word. Some edits are more subtle, and the move is likely to prove controversial, as was the case with similar changes made to books by Ian Fleming and Roald Dahl.