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Publishing companies based in New York City
- Condé NastCondé Nast began in 1909 when a publisher bought Vogue. The weekly society journal had been in print since 1892.
- 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.
- 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…
- Alfred A. KnopfKahlil Gibran's The Prophet sold only 1,159 copies in its first year. Its sales then kept doubling.
- 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…
- Pantheon BooksIn February 1990, Pantheon Books editor André Schiffrin was asked to resign. He refused to cut titles or staff.
- Sony Music PublishingMichael Jackson told Paul McCartney he would one day buy the Beatles' songs. He did, in 1985.
- Marvel ComicsIn 1971, Stan Lee published a Spider-Man drug story that the Comics Code Authority refused to approve.
- Ballantine BooksBallantine Books bet readers would buy the same new book twice.
- Hearst CommunicationsAt 23, William Randolph Hearst took over his father's San Francisco newspaper. It grew into Hearst Communications.
- 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.
- Vice MediaVice Media began as a small Montreal magazine called Voice. It was founded in October 1994 and renamed Vice in 1996.
- Future USFuture US began at a struggling video game magazine in Greensboro, North Carolina. Future plc bought it in 1994.
- Scholastic CorporationScholastic began as a four-page magazine handed out in 50 high schools near Pittsburgh.