2027 Spring Internship - Subsidiary Rights (NYC)
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HarperCollins Publishers
New York, NY, US
Summary
The intern will assist in managing submission materials for various imprints and support the creation of presentations for international book fairs. They will also read and evaluate manuscripts for licensing potential while learning about deal terms and rights systems.
Job Description
Overview
Join the exciting and fast-paced world of subsidiary rights! The rights team works with book clubs, audio publishers, movie studios and foreign publishers around the world to solicit and sell rights for HarperCollins and Harlequin books for all ages.
Responsibilities
- Work on submission material for licensees for HarperCollins adult and children’s imprints, as well as Harlequin.
- Support creation of key presentations for International Book Fairs.
- Additional work on presentations as needed.
- Read and discuss manuscripts with an eye towards how they can be licensed.
- Learn various deal terms and how they are recorded in our various rights systems.
Qualifications
- Candidates who are available to work in a full-time capacity in 2027 or 2028 are eligible for this internship; open to rising seniors, recent graduates, master’s students, or entry level candidates with up to 1 year of work experience.
- Candidates must be available to work 21 hours per week across 3 or 4 days, from February 8 to April 16, 2027, at the location specified in the job description. This internship is compensated at a rate of $18 per hour.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
- A resume and cover letter are required; applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please address your cover letter to “Hiring Team.”
- Ideal candidates are either currently enrolled in or have recently graduated from an undergraduate or master’s program.
- A passion for books is highly valued!
- The Subsidiary Rights team is an exciting and collaborative place to be, and this candidate must enjoy working with others, and have great communication skills .
- Candidates who are available to work in a full-time capacity in 2026 or 2027 are eligible for this internship; open to rising seniors, recent graduates, master's students, or entry level candidates with up to two years of work experience
Logistics
- Candidates must be available to work 28 hours per week, Monday through Thursday.
HarperCollins Publishers is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for qualified individuals with disabilities, in our job application and/or interview process. If you need assistance or accommodation in completing your application, due to a disability, email us at [email protected]. Note: we will only respond to accommodation requests.
The deadline to apply is October 1, 2026 by 11:59 pm ET.
HarperCollins Publishers is an equal opportunity employer.
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
HarperCollins Publishers is the second-largest consumer book publisher in the world.
Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing operations in 15 countries. With two hundred years of history and more than 120 branded imprints around the world, HarperCollins publishes approximately 10,000 new books every year in 16 languages, and has a print and digital catalog of more than 250,000 titles. Writing across dozens of genres, HarperCollins authors include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Newbery and Caldecott Medals, and the Man Booker Prize. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corp.
The house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, HarperCollins has a long and rich history that reaches back to the early nineteenth century and offers our publishing team a depth of experience that few others can rival—from the modest print shop that James and John Harper opened in 1817 to the global house we are today.
Founded
1817
Company size
1,001-5,000 employees
Industry
Book and Periodical Publishing
Org type
Public Company
Headquarters
New York, New York
