Effective immediately, HarperCollins has bought most titles published by Newmarket Press. As part of the agreement, Newmarket Press founder, president and publisher Esther Margolis is joining HarperCollins's It Books imprint as an executive editor, where she will acquire entertainment books that will be published under the Newmarket Press imprint. HarperCollins called the move part of its "continuing expansion in the areas of pop-culture and entertainment publishing."
Margolis founded Newmarket Press in 1981 and has published more than 200 books in film, theater and performing arts, including many official movie tie-in books. The house has also published more than 100 titles in parenting, psychology, health, biography, history, business and fiction.
All non-film-and-entertainment-related Newmarket Press titles acquired by HarperCollins will be published as trade paperbacks under the William Morrow Trade Paperbacks imprint.
Before founding Newmarket Press, Margolis worked at Bantam Books, where she created the publisher's publicity operations and later became Bantams first division head for marketing, publicity and communications worldwide.
Staff at Newmarket Press are not moving to HarperCollins, although executive editor Keith Hollaman will work on a freelance basis during the coming months on current Newmarket Press projects. He may be reached at keithhollaman@gmail.com.
Publicity director Harry Burton may be reached at harry.burton@earthlink.net.
