Publishing company

Benjamin Franklin ( – April 17 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and printer, satirist, political theorist, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman and diplomat. As...

Project Gutenberg, abbreviated as PG, is a volunteer effort to digitize, archive and distribute cultural works. Founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart, it is the oldest digital library. Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain book. The...

Steve Jackson Games (SJG) is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card game and the gaming magazine Pyramid. Founded in 1980, six years after the birth of Dungeons & Dragons, and before the height...

The New York Times Company is an American media company. It is best known as the publisher of its namesake, The New York Times. Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Jr. has served as Chairman of the Board since 1997. The company was founded by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George...

Oxford University Press (OUP) is a publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. It is the largest university press in the world, being larger than all the American university presses combined with Cambridge University Press. It has branches...

Baen Books is an American publishing company established in 1983 by long time Science Fiction publisher and editor Jim Baen. It is a science fiction and fantasy publishing house that emphasizes space opera, hard science fiction, military science fiction, and fantasy....

World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE) is a publicly traded, privately controlled integrated media (focusing in television, Internet, and live events) and sports entertainment company dealing primarily in the professional wrestling industry, with major revenue...

Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. Arkham House published the first hardback collections of H. P. Lovecraft's works. Arkham House editions are noted for the quality of...

Hasbro is an American toy company. It is one of the largest toy makers in the world, second only to the toy giant Mattel. Hasbro is also the publisher of the world's most popular board game, Monopoly. The corporate headquarters is located in Pawtucket, Rhode Island,...

Vertigo is an imprint of the American comic-book publisher DC Comics. Its books are marketed to a late-teen and adult audience, and may contain graphic violence, substance abuse, frank (but not explicit) depictions of sexuality, and controversial subjects. Although...

Random House, Inc. (or sometimes referred to as The House) is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It is owned by Bertelsmann, a transnational media corporation. Random House is the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random...

Ottaviano Petrucci (June 18, 1466 – May 7 1539) was an Italian printer. Petrucci is credited with producing, in 1501, the first book of sheet music printed from movable type: Harmonice Musices Odhecaton, a collection of chanson. He also published numerous works by the...

O'Reilly Media (formerly O'Reilly & Associates) is an American media company established by Tim O'Reilly that publishes books and web sites and produces conferences on computer technology topics. They have achieved distinctive branding by featuring a woodcut of an...

Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing game, board game and card game. Its current president is John Nephew. Games published include:

Doubleday is the fifth largest book publishing company in the world. It was founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 by Frank Nelson Doubleday who had formed a partnership with magazine publisher Samuel McClure. One of their first bestsellers was The Day's...

The Star is the leading English-language tabloid format newspaper in Malaysia. It is the largest in terms of circulation in Malaysia, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. It has a daily circulation of between 290,000 to 300,000. The Star is also a member of...

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, is a global publishing company that markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and researchers and practitioners in scientific, technical, medical, and...

W. W. Norton & Company is an American book publishing company that has remained independent since its founding. It is the oldest and largest employee-owned publisher in the United States and is well known for its "Norton Anthologies", particularly the Norton...

The Washington Post Company (NYSE:WPO) is an American education and media company, best known for owning the newspaper it is named after, The Washington Post. The Company also owns Kaplan, Inc., a leading international provider of educational and career services for...

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc is an independent, London-based publishing house known for literary novel. It was named Publisher of the Year in 1999 and 2000. Bloomsbury's growth over the past few years is mainly due to the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling. The...

The MIT Press is a university press affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA). The core focus of its books and journals are the subjects of Art & Architecture, the Cognitive Sciences, Computer Science, Economics,...

Tor Books is one of two imprints of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, based in New York City. It is noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. Tom Doherty Associates also publishes mainstream fiction, mystery, and occasional military history titles under its Forge...

Chatto and Windus has been, since 1987, an imprint of Random House, the publishers. It was originally an important publisher of books in London, founded in the Victorian era by Andrew Chatto (1841–1913). Chatto & Windus published Mark Twain, Wilkie Collins, Richard...

Routledge is a publisher of non-fiction academic books and journals. It was acquired in 1997 by, and is thus now an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, which is a sub-division of Informa PLC, a company based in the United Kingdom with offices worldwide. A...

Barron's Educational Series, Inc. is an American test preparation company, founded in 1941 as a publisher of materials to help students to prepare for college entrance examination, and that offers college entrance exam preparation classes. The company offers materials...

Berkley Books is a paperback imprint of Penguin Group (USA) that began as an independent company in 1955. It was established by Charles Byrne and Frederic Klein, who were working for Avon and formed "Chic News Company". They renamed it Berkley Publishing Co. in 1955....

Samisdat Publishers, Ltd. was a small Canadian publishing house owned and operated by Ernst Zündel, a noted Holocaust denier, during the 1980s and 1990s. It was based in Toronto, Ontario, and is now defunct. The name was taken from samizdat, a system practised in...

Viking Press is an American publishing company currently owned by Penguin Books. It was founded in New York City on March 1, 1925 by Harold K. Guinzburg and George S. Oppenheim. The firm's name and logo –- a Viking ship drawn by Rockwell Kent -– were meant to evoke the...

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a division of CBS Corporation, is a publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster. It is one of the four largest English language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin, and HarperCollins. ...

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is an international publishing company specialising in illustrated reference book for adults and children in 51 languages. DK was founded as a book-packaging company by Christopher Dorling and Peter Kindersley in London in 1974, and in 1982...