Choosing The Best Book Publishing Companies -- A Quick Reference Guide
For your convenience, we have compiled a short list of some of the most well-known, principal book publishing companies. We have tried to provide the most accurate information that is available at this time. Hopefully this quick reference guide will save you some time in locating the book publishing companies best suited to publishing your manuscript -- Ballantine -- one of the most well-known book publishing companies, Ballantine publishes a large number of paperback and trade books, in a huge variety of categories. Bantam -- like Ballantine, Bantam books is another of the book publishing companies owned by Random House and is a part of the Bantam Dell publishing group. Many paperbacks are published under the Bantam (as in the rooster) imprint. Dell -- the Bantam Dell publishing group of book publishing companies publishes major works of fiction, nonfiction, women's fiction, science fiction and fantasy works, books dealing with health and wellness, and much, much more. Doubleday -- if you are familiar with best-selling authors like John Grisham and Jeffrey Toobin and you know about the Doubleday Books line. Doubleday is also a part of the RandomHouse family of book publishing companies. Little, Brown & Co. -- Little, Brown & Co. is one of America's oldest book publishing companies, founded in 1837. Historically they have focused a great deal on the publication of paperback books and also publish books on art and photography, as well as titles in other subject areas. This book publishing company also publishes books for children and teenagers. MacMillan -- MacMillan Publishers are one of a handful of book publishing companies with global operations. Currently MacMillan Publishers maintains 38 publishing offices throughout the world. Macmillan publishers comprises over 50 different divisions and is a well-known publisher of educational, academic, and scientific books. Penguin -- Penguin books are probably best known as a publisher of paperback classics, and in common with most other major book publishing companies today publish a full line of both fiction and nonfiction works. They are also the publishers of the "Complete Idiots" guidebooks and publish many audio books as well. Prentice-Hall -- Prentice-Hall publishers are a major publisher of educational books and textbooks. Prentice-Hall was established in 1913, and unlike some other book publishing companies has made the publication of school textbooks, reference materials and scholarly monographs its strength. Scribner -- Charles Scribner's Sons is another one of America's oldest book publishing companies, having been established in 1846 in New York. In 1999 Charles Scribner's Sons joined Thomson Gale, and to this day is a major publisher of reference works. If you have ever used reference book in any library, you have probably used a book published by Charles Scribner's Sons. Simon & Schuster -- Simon and Schuster, founded in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln Schuster, was in recent years acquired by CBS Corp., following a familiar pattern of consolidation among book publishing companies. Simon and Schuster has featured the work of significant authors: in 2006 16 number one bestsellers on the New York Times bestseller list were Simon & Schuster books. |
