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Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
- Vintage BooksVintage Books publishes both Toni Morrison and Haruki Murakami. It began in 1954 as a paperback line inside Knopf.
- St. Martin's PressSt. Martin's Press began in 1952, one year after Macmillan sold its stake in Macmillan US.
- Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster began in 1924 with a crossword puzzle book. Its founders were a piano salesman and a magazine editor.
- Oxford University PressOxford's dictionary was planned for ten years and took until 1928. The cost ran to around 375,000 pounds.
- New York University PressNew York University Press, usually called NYU Press, began in 1916 as an idea of the university's own chancellor, Elmer Ellsworth Brown. A chancellor starting a publishing house is a curious choice, because universities more often leave…
- Random HouseRandom House got its name from a casual remark in 1927. Bennett Cerf said they would publish a few books at random.
- Bantam BooksBantam Books beat Rhode Island's book blacklist in a unanimous 1963 Supreme Court ruling.
- HarperCollinsHarperCollins joined a New York printer and a Glasgow printer that never met. Murdoch merged them in 1989.
- Columbia University PressColumbia University Press was the first American university press to publish music. It opened in May 1893.
- Free Press (publisher)In 1960, Jeremiah Kaplan agreed to join Macmillan only if it bought his Free Press outright.
- Viking PressViking Press was founded in New York City on the 1st of March 1925. Two men started it, Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer. Its formal name today is Viking Penguin, and it is also listed as Viking Books. It is an American…
- Harper (publisher)Two brothers who were printers opened a New York shop in 1817. It grew into the publisher Harper.
- Alfred A. KnopfKahlil Gibran's The Prophet sold only 1,159 copies in its first year. Its sales then kept doubling.
- Cornell University PressCornell University Press went silent for 46 years. Founded in 1869, it went dormant in 1884 and returned in 1930.
- Ace BooksAce Books, a New York City publisher founded in 1952 by Aaron A. Wyn, sold paperbacks with two front covers. Turn one over, and a second novel began, upside down, from the other end. Some rare copies in mint condition now command more than…
- New American LibraryNew American Library began as Penguin U.S.A., until exchange controls forced a split.
- 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…
- Three Rivers PressThree Rivers Press is named for the rivers around Manhattan. The Harlem, East and Hudson also stand for three imprints.
- DAW BooksUntil June 1984, every DAW Books paperback had a yellow spine. The publisher also numbered each book on the cover.
- Pantheon BooksIn February 1990, Pantheon Books editor André Schiffrin was asked to resign. He refused to cut titles or staff.
- Syracuse University PressSyracuse University Press has never owned a printing press. Its books carry the university's name, yet they are made by an offsite manufacturer. The Press belongs to Syracuse University and is a member of the Association of University…
- PublicAffairsPeter Osnos founded PublicAffairs in 1997 for serious non-fiction on politics. It joined Hachette by 2016.
- Fordham University PressFordham University Press, founded in 1907, is the oldest Catholic university press in the United States.
- Prometheus BooksPrometheus Books took its name from the Titan who stole fire for humans. Paul Kurtz founded it in 1969.
- Ballantine BooksBallantine Books bet readers would buy the same new book twice.
- Dover PublicationsDover Publications takes its name from an apartment building. The building was called The Dover, and it stood in Forest Hills South, Queens, in New York. Hayward and Blanche Cirker lived there, and in 1941 they founded the publishing house…
- Charles Scribner's SonsStephen King has published new releases with Scribner, a New York publisher founded in 1846, since 1998.
- Farrar, Straus and GirouxA diet book helped save the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Gayelord Hauser's book sold 500,000 copies in 1950.
- Berghahn BooksIn 2019, Berghahn Books offered 13 anthropology journals for a plan to make them free.
- Cambria PressCambria Press requires its authors to hold a terminal degree in their field. It opened in 2006.
- Manning PublicationsManning Publications began in 1990 as a book packaging business. Its first computer book was for Addison Wesley.
- Scholastic CorporationScholastic began as a four-page magazine handed out in 50 high schools near Pittsburgh.
- Hippocrene BooksHippocrene Books grew from a 1973 deal to distribute German dictionaries. By 2008 it published in over 112 languages.