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Book publishing companies of the United States
- Westview PressFrederick A. Praeger established Westview Press in Boulder, Colorado during 1975. The company began as a small operation with a clear mission to produce…
- Random HouseRandom House began with a casual remark that became a company name. In 1927, Bennett Cerf told his new partner Donald Klopfer that they were simply going to…
- HarperCollinsHarperCollins traces its name to two companies that never met until one man decided to buy them both. James Harper and his brother John founded J & J Harper…
- Merriam-WebsterMerriam-Webster is the oldest dictionary publisher in the United States, and its story begins not with a corporation but with a single man's obsession.
- Ashgate PublishingAshgate Publishing spent nearly five decades as a fixture of British academic life, turning out books and journals on subjects from social science to the…
- Everyman's LibraryLondon publisher Joseph Malaby Dent conceived Everyman's Library in 1905 with a singular ambition. He wanted to build a library of one thousand volumes that…
- CRC PressCRC Press began not with books but with rubber aprons. In 1900, Arthur Friedman started selling rubber laboratory aprons to chemists, and by 1903 he and his…
- National Academies PressThe US National Academies Press was created to publish reports issued by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.
- Scholastic CorporationMaurice R. Robinson stood near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1920 to launch a small publishing venture. The first publication was The Western Pennsylvania…
- Triumph BooksTriumph Books is a Chicago-based sports book publisher with an unusual specialty: rushing books into print while the news is still raw.