HarperCollins

HarperCollins is identified in the book’s back matter as a publishing organization thanked by the author and represented in the e-book’s copyright and publisher information. The notices connect the name to editorial and publishing acknowledgments, legal terms for reading and reproducing the e-book, and publisher listings in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Acknowledgments and Publishing Context

The acknowledgments thank people at HarperCollins, naming Jennifer Barth, Tina Andreadis, Christine Boyd, Jonathan Burnham, Kevin Callahan, Michael Morrison, Kathy Schneider, Brad Wetherell, and Leslie Cohen. They are singled out among the people the author describes as part of the publishing team. The passage establishes that HarperCollins personnel were among those the author wished to recognize, but it does not assign individual roles or describe the nature of each person’s contribution; the names therefore function as an acknowledgment rather than a detailed account of editorial or production work.

The same acknowledgments also thank the author’s team at Folio Literary Management and a separate group of resident experts and facilitators. The distinction matters to the way HarperCollins is situated in the book’s closing material: the publishing staff appear within a broader network of people recognized by the author, rather than as the only group involved in bringing the book to readers. The passage gives personal names and thanks, not a division of labor or a narrative of how the manuscript was developed.

Copyright and E-Book Terms

The copyright notice identifies The Art of Racing in the Rain as a 2008 work copyrighted by Bright White Light, LLC. It states that the e-book reader has a non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text on-screen after payment of the required fees. The notice prohibits reproduction or transmission, as well as downloading, decompiling, reverse engineering, or storing the text in an information-storage or retrieval system, unless HarperCollins e-books has given express written permission.

These terms make the distinction between the named copyright owner and the publisher information explicit. The notice assigns copyright to Bright White Light, LLC; it does not identify HarperCollins as the copyright owner. Instead, it sets out conditions on the reader’s access to the electronic edition and names HarperCollins e-books in connection with permission to use the text beyond those conditions. The book is also identified as a work of fiction, with a disclaimer that its characters, incidents, and dialogue are imaginative and should not be treated as real events or persons.

The e-book’s publication information gives the ISBN as 978-0-06-164839-7 and identifies the reader edition as Mobipocket, with the month printed as April 2008 in the source notice. These details place the HarperCollins e-books reference within the edition’s formal publication record, alongside the copyright and usage terms, rather than in the acknowledgments alone.

Regional Publisher Listings

Under About the Publisher, the book lists separate HarperCollins publishing entities for Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The Australian listing names HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd. at 25 Ryde Road, with a post-office box in Pymble, New South Wales, 2073. It also supplies the Australian HarperCollins e-books website.

The Canadian entry identifies HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. at 55 Avenue Road, Suite 2900, Toronto, Ontario, M5R 3L2. The United Kingdom entry lists HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. at 77–85 Fulham Palace Road, London, W6 8JB, and provides a UK e-books website. The United States listing gives HarperCollins Publishers Inc. at 10 East 53rd Street, New York, New York 10022. The use of distinct corporate designations—Pty. Ltd., Ltd., and Inc.—and country-specific addresses is part of the directory’s concrete record; the page does not describe how the offices divide publishing or distribution responsibilities.

Presence in the Book’s Record

Taken together, these passages show HarperCollins in several different documentary roles: its people receive the author’s thanks, HarperCollins e-books is named in the e-book’s restrictions on further use, and regional publisher entities are listed with their office addresses. The book does not elaborate on the company’s internal structure or specify which listed office handled this particular edition. Its evidence is instead paratextual and practical: recognition of named publishing personnel, a statement of reader access and reproduction limits, edition information, and a directory through which readers can identify HarperCollins publishing addresses in four countries.