HarperCollins

HarperCollins is identified in the book’s closing publication material through an e-book copyright and access notice and a regional publisher directory. Those pages place the name in two related but distinct contexts: as the publisher associated with the electronic edition and as the umbrella heading under which regional HarperCollins publishing entities and contact addresses are presented. The publication record identifies the ePub edition as July 2004 and labels it the first edition.

Publication and Edition

The copyright notice names the book as Day of the Dead and states that its copyright is held by J. A. Jance in 2004. It identifies the edition as an e-book and gives its eISBN as 9780061741944. The accompanying publication details specify July 2004 for the ePub edition and mark the volume as the first edition. These details establish the bibliographic setting in which HarperCollins appears, without suggesting that the publisher owns the book’s stated copyright.

The notice also records a numbered sequence, 10 through 1, alongside the first-edition statement. Taken together, the date, format, identifier, and edition designation make the publisher information part of a compact production record: the digital format is specified, the edition is dated, and a unique eISBN is supplied for identification.

Access and Use Terms

The e-book notice says that payment of the required fees grants the reader a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text on-screen. The permission is therefore framed as a limited right to read the electronic text, rather than as a transfer of ownership or an unrestricted license to reproduce it. The notice expressly prohibits reproducing, transmitting, downloading, decompiling, reverse engineering, or storing the text in an information storage and retrieval system without written permission from HarperCollins e-books.

The stated restrictions cover both familiar copying and forms of electronic handling. By naming transmission and reproduction alongside downloading, decompilation, reverse engineering, and storage, the notice defines the permitted activity narrowly as on-screen access and reading. It also specifies that the prohibition applies across forms and means, including electronic and mechanical ones, and refers to means either then known or developed later. The terms thus connect the edition’s digital delivery to explicit limits on what readers may do with the text beyond reading it.

Regional Publisher Directory

Under the heading About the Publisher, the book lists HarperCollins publishing entities and addresses for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Australian listing names HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd. at 25 Ryde Road, with a Pymble postal address in New South Wales. The Canadian entry gives HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. at 55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900, Toronto, Ontario.

The New Zealand directory entry names HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited and gives a postal address in Auckland. The United Kingdom listing identifies HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. at Fulham Palace Road in London. For the United States, it names HarperCollins Publishers Inc. at East 53rd Street in New York. The directory supplies a web address for each of these five regional listings, presenting the contacts as country-specific points of reference rather than as a single undifferentiated address.

Role in the Book’s Publication Record

HarperCollins’s documented role here is defined by the materials themselves: the e-book access notice refers to HarperCollins e-books, while the closing directory organizes regional publisher names and contact details beneath the About the Publisher heading. The pages do not describe the company’s wider history, structure, or publishing program. Their contribution is narrower and concrete: they record how this edition was identified, what reading and use permissions accompanied it, and where readers could find the listed HarperCollins publishing contacts.