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This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
According to Nielsen BookScan as of 2010 the largest book publishers of the United Kingdom were: [1]. Penguin Random House £409.9m (23.4%). Penguin: Penguin, Hamish Hamilton, Allen Lane, Michael Joseph, Viking, Rough Guides, Dorling Kindersley, Puffin, Ladybird, Warne
The book The Powder Puff Derby of 1929: The First All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, written by Gene Nora Jessen, was published in 2002. [ 28 ] The 2010 documentary Breaking through the Clouds: The First Women's National Air Derby covers the race from inception through conclusion, includes interviews with some surviving relatives of pilots ...
Puffin Books is a longstanding children's imprint of the British publishers Penguin Books. Since the 1960s, it has been among the largest publishers of children's books in the UK and much of the English-speaking world. [1] The imprint now belongs to Penguin Random House, a subsidiary of the German media conglomerate Bertelsmann.
Beginning in 1971, two years after being acquired by ITT, the firm became a leading pioneer of publishing large-print editions of best-selling fiction and non-fiction books. In 1972 it acquired Gregg Press the scholarly reprint company. In 1973 it acquired Twayne Publishers. In 1989 it acquired Sandak, [1] the art slide publisher.
The publishing house was one of the pioneers in publishing large-format, full-color print books. These became known as " coffee table books ." Their first book in this format was the popular Oregon , a book of photographs by Ray Atkeson , which became a series that includes Oregon 2 and Oregon III .
Among the first large print book publishers, the Clear Type Publishing Company published a collection of books in 36 point type, c. 1910. [8] The Ohio-based company specialized in large print, publishing books in 36pt and 24pt. [9] In 1914 Robert Irwin produced a series of textbooks in 36 point, for low-vision children in Cleveland, Ohio schools.
Defunct book publishing companies of the United States (2 C, 117 P) University presses of the United States (18 C, 140 P) American speculative fiction publishers (1 C, 61 P)