Now buried in the News Corp. newspaper-dominated publishing segment, HarperCollins merits one clause in the company’s quarterly earnings report: income for the publishing division was held back “by lower contributions at HarperCollins.” In a brief statement, the publisher itself claims victory for having giving corporate more than they promised, regardless of comparisons to a year ago: “HarperCollins had a good quarter, exceeding its plan. The children’s division did extremely well, thanks to the Justin Bieber memoir, as well as two titles by Lauren Conrad. Sarah Palin’s America by Heart and Steve Harvey’s Straight Talk, No Chaser also performed well in […]