HarperCollins and Ediouro Group have formed HarperCollins Brasil, which combines the operations of Thomas Nelson Brasil and Harlequin Brasil with Ediouro's commercial trade publishing titles and personnel, the companies announced yesterday.
HarperCollins and Ediouro have had a joint venture since 2006. Harlequin has ended its joint venture with Record Publishing Group. Ediouro will continue to publish a literary and Catholic trade list outside the joint venture as well as continue its other non-trade publishing businesses.
HarperCollins Brasil will publish a about 350 titles per year from the HarperCollins trade, children's, Christian and romance imprints from around the world, as well as Brazilian authors. The move follows similar HarperCollins efforts, following its purchase of Harlequin last year, to consolidate and build foreign-language publishing in Germany, Poland, the Nordic countries, the Netherlands, Japan and Spain.
Antonio Araujo will be executive director of HarperCollins Brasil, responsible for operations and finance. Kaike Nane has been named publisher for the HarperCollins and Harlequin lists. Omar Alves de Souza will continue as publisher of the Thomas Nelson Brasil list.
HarperCollins president and CEO Brian Murray commented: "This gives us greater scale in a critical and growing market, and is another step in our plans to publish our diverse list of authors globally, while also publishing local authors."