Curated category
Publishing companies based in New York City
- Condé NastCondé Nast began with a single purchase: in 1909, a New York City-born publisher named Condé Montrose Nast bought Vogue, a weekly journal of society and…
- St. Martin's PressSt. Martin's Press puts out roughly 700 books a year from its offices in the Equitable Building in Manhattan. That volume alone places it among the largest…
- Simon & SchusterSimon & Schuster began with a crossword puzzle and a question no one had thought to answer. In 1924, Richard Simon's aunt, an avid puzzle enthusiast, asked…
- New York University PressChancellor Elmer Ellsworth Brown established New York University Press in 1916. The press began operations that same year under his direct supervision.
- 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…
- Bantam BooksBantam Books began in 1945 as an unlikely coalition of publishing ambitions. Walter B. Pitkin Jr., Sidney B. Kramer, and Ian and Betty Ballantine pooled…
- 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…
- Columbia University PressColumbia University Press has been shaping how the world reads, studies, and questions things since May 1893. It was born in New York City, tied to Columbia…
- Free Press (publisher)Jeremiah Kaplan and Charles Liebman established Free Press in 1947. They chose the name to signal a commitment to civil liberties.
- Viking PressHarold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheimer established Viking Press in New York City on the 1st of March 1925. They chose a name that evoked enterprise…
- Alfred A. KnopfAlfred A. Knopf, Inc. was built on five thousand dollars borrowed from a father, and it became one of the most decorated publishing houses in American…
- Henry Holt and CompanyHenry Holt and Company opened its doors in 1866. Two men named Henry Holt and Frederick Leypoldt started the business together.
- Pantheon BooksPantheon Books began its life in 1942 in New York City, founded by two refugees who had crossed an ocean to escape fascism and the Holocaust.
- Sony Music PublishingSony Music Publishing controls more than six million songs as of the end of March 2025, making it the largest music publisher on earth by catalog size.
- Marvel ComicsMarvel Comics was founded in 1939 by a pulp-magazine publisher named Martin Goodman, operating out of an office at 330 West 42nd Street in New York City.
- Ballantine BooksIan Ballantine announced a new plan in 1952 that would change how books reached readers. He offered trade publishers simultaneous hardcover and paperback…
- Hearst CommunicationsHearst Communications is one of the largest privately held media companies in the United States, built on a foundation that stretches back to a single…
- Charles Scribner's SonsCharles Scribner's Sons has spent nearly two centuries at the center of American literature, publishing names that now appear on high school syllabi and…
- Farrar, Straus and GirouxRoger W. Straus Jr. and John C. Farrar established Farrar, Straus, and Company in 1945. Their first book was Yank: The G.I.
- Vice MediaVice Media once commanded a $5.7 billion valuation, making it one of the most aggressively scaled digital media companies of its era.
- Future USFuture US started life not in New York or San Francisco, but in Greensboro, North Carolina, where a struggling video game magazine publisher called GP…
- Scholastic CorporationScholastic Corporation began as a four-page magazine handed out to students in 50 high schools near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.