Curated playlist
Academic publishing companies
- RoutledgeEnglish multinational academic publisher
- Oxford University PressOxford's dictionary was planned for ten years and took until 1928. The cost ran to around 375,000 pounds.
- Westview PressHarperCollins bought Westview Press in 1995, but the two companies were a poor match.
- Pluto PressPluto Press printed theatre programmes that contained the entire playscript. It worked with the Royal Court Theatre.
- University of Chicago PressThe University of Chicago Press sold just five copies of its first book in two years.
- Wiley-BlackwellWiley bought Blackwell Publishing for £572 million in a deal that closed in February 2007.
- Palgrave MacmillanPalgrave Macmillan is named for a Victorian family of four brothers.
- Wiley (publisher)Wiley once published Edgar Allan Poe and Herman Melville. It began as a Manhattan print shop in 1807.
- Springer Science+Business MediaIn 2015, Springer retracted 64 papers from 10 of its journals over a fraudulent peer review process.
- Henry Holt and CompanyHenry Holt and Company is an American book publisher based in New York City, and it has been putting books into print since 1866. Two men founded it that year, Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt. Few publishers in the United States can…
- Taylor & FrancisA Taylor & Francis math journal retracted a paper over its authors' Iranian nationality.
- Springer NatureSpringer Nature did not exist until several publishers merged in 2015. Its name carries a Berlin print shop from 1842.
- Brill PublishersDutch publisher Brill sold its own printing arm to survive. The firm likened the sale to amputating its own limb.
- ElsevierIn 2012, mathematician Timothy Gowers announced a boycott of the publisher Elsevier. A petition soon followed.
- Boydell & BrewerBoydell & Brewer, a Suffolk publisher, has three series on King Arthur alone.
- Peter Lang (publisher)In 1982, the publisher Peter Lang opened a U.S. branch, its first expansion beyond Europe.
- Bloomsbury PublishingBloomsbury took on the first Harry Potter book after other publishers had rejected it.
- Ashgate PublishingIn July 2015, Ashgate Publishing was sold to Informa for a reported £20 million.
- University of South Carolina PressCasey Clabough saw the University of South Carolina Press improve its authors and book design.
- M. E. SharpeIn 1958, Myron Emanuel Sharpe started a press to translate Russian scholarship for English readers.
- Berg PublishersBerg Publishers, an Oxford academic press, was sold to Bloomsbury in September 2008 for three million pounds.
- De Gruyter BrillDe Gruyter Brill is a German scholarly publishing house, and its family tree begins with a royal sentence. In 1749, Frederick the Great gave the Königliche Realschule in Berlin a privilege. The school could open a bookstore and use it "to…
- Berghahn BooksIn 2019, Berghahn Books offered 13 anthropology journals for a plan to make them free.
- Royal Society of ChemistryOnce a year, the Royal Society of Chemistry holds a conference entirely on Twitter.
- Cambria PressCambria Press requires its authors to hold a terminal degree in their field. It opened in 2006.
- Academic Studies PressAcademic Studies Press saw renewed interest in its Ukrainian translations after the 2022 invasion.
- Open Court Publishing CompanyOpen Court Publishing Company began at a zinc foundry, not a university.