HarperDB

HarperCollins Publishers is one of the 'Big Five' English-language publishing companies, headquartered in New York City and a subsidiary of News Corp. It publishes a diverse range of books across various genres, including fiction, non-fiction, children's literature, and religious texts, for a…

Key facts

First appeared: 2017
Category: database
Problem solved: As a publishing company, HarperCollins was established to publish and distribute books, facilitating the creation and dissemination of literature and information to readers globally. It was not created to solve a technical problem in the same vein as a software technology.

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Notable users

N/A (as it is a company itself, not 'used' in a technical sense)