HarperCollins parent company News Corp. reported first quarter results after the close of the market Tuesday–and HarperCollins has disappeared from the radar. Among the company’s smaller-producing units, Harper’s results have been merged with the larger “newspapers and information services” accounting lines from previous reports. In a conference call with investors, company officials said “this reporting change recognizes both the way we group these businesses and a smaller percentage of total earnings that these businesses now represent.” Reinforcing the diminished importance of HarperCollins in the overall corporate picture, their name is not mentioned once in the new quarterly report–which uses the […]
