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Penton Media
The
company's market-leading brands are focused on 30 industries and
include 113 trade magazines, 145 Web sites, 96 industry trade shows and
conferences, and more than 500 information data products. Penton has 30
office locations and employs more...
Date founded:
- 1886
Chick Publications
Chick Publications is an American publishing company founded and run by Jack T. Chick which produces and markets Protestant fundamentalist pamphlets, DVDs, VCDs, videos, books, and posters. Chick Publications' best-known products are Chick tracts,...
Date founded:
- 1961
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DC Comics
DC Comics (originally founded in 1934 as National Allied Publications) is one of the largest and most popular American comic book and related media companies, along with Marvel Comics. It is the publishing division of DC Entertainment Inc., a...
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Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKEX: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for computing devices. Headquartered in Redmond, Washington,...
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- Apr 4, 1975
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Marvel Comics
Marvel Publishing, Inc., a company doing business as Marvel Comics, produces American comic books and related media. It forms a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, Inc.
Marvel counts among its characters such well-known properties as Spider-Man, the...
Date founded:
- 1939
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Partizan Press
Partizan Press is the UK company that published Valkyrie Quarterly magazine. They are an arm of Caliver Books, a major UK games retailer, but has a historical focus. Describing themselves as covering "specialist areas of military history", their...
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world. It is a department of the University of Oxford and is governed by a group of 15 academics appointed by the Vice-Chancellor known as the Delegates of the Press. they are...
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Yapi Kredi Publications
Yapi Kredi Publications ("Yapi Kredi Yayinlari") is one of the biggest publishing houses in Turkey. Based in Istanbul and active since 1992, it has published nearly 2500 titles in philosophy, literature, the arts, and children's books.
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Baen Books
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...
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- 1983
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Archie Comics
Archie Comics is an American comic book publisher headquartered in the Village of Mamaroneck, Town of Mamaroneck, New York, known for its many series featuring the fictional teenage Archie Andrews, Betty Cooper, Veronica Lodge, Reggie Mantle and...
Date founded:
- 1939
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Philtrum Press
Philtrum Press is a small publishing house run by Stephen King.
Primarily the work of Stephen King's personal assistant, Marsha DeFillipo (also The Official Stephen King Website Message Board Moderator), conducting small press operations from his...
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Arkham House
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's...
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Cambridge University Press
Cambridge University Press is the publishing business of the University of Cambridge. Granted a Royal Letters Patent by Henry VIII in 1534, it is the world's oldest continually operating book publisher. Cambridge is both an academic and educational...
Date founded:
- 1584
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Western Publishing
Western Publishing, also known as "Western Printing and Lithographing Co." was a publishing firm based in Racine, Wisconsin, that was responsible for Little Golden Books.
The company was founded by brothers Edward Henry and Albert H. Wadewitz. It...
Date founded:
- 1907
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Michelin
Michelin (full name: SCA Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin) (Euronext: ML) based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne région of France, is primarily a tyre manufacturer, currently either the world's second-largest or the largest (see...
Date founded:
- 1888
Time Warner
Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX) is the world's largest entertainment conglomerate (in front of the Walt Disney Company, News Corporation and Viacom), as well as the world's fourth largest media conglomerate, headquartered in the Time Warner Center in...
Date founded:
- 1990
News Corporation
News Corporation (often abbreviated to News Corp.) is the world's second largest media conglomerate (behind The Walt Disney Company) as of 2008 and the world's third largest in entertainment as of 2009 . The company's Chairman, Chief Executive...
Date founded:
- 1979
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ArtScroll
ArtScroll is an imprint of translations, books and commentaries from an Orthodox Jewish perspective published by Mesorah Publications, Ltd., a publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. Its general editors are Rabbis Nosson Scherman and Meir...
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2.13.61
2.13.61, Inc. is a publisher and record company founded by musician Henry Rollins and named after his birthday (February 13, 1961). The company has released albums by the Rollins Band, all of Rollins's spoken-word work, and numerous books.
In his...
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Taschen
Taschen is an art book publisher founded in 1980 by Benedikt Taschen in Cologne, Germany. It began as Taschen Comics publishing Benedikt's extensive comic collection. Taschen has been a noteworthy force in making lesser-seen art available to...
Date founded:
- 1980
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Random House
Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general trade book publisher. It has been owned since 1998 by the large German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random...
Date founded:
- 1927
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Guardian Media Group
Guardian Media Group plc (often referred to as 'GMG') is a company of the United Kingdom owning various mass media operations including The Guardian, The Observer and the Manchester Evening News. The Group is owned by the Scott Trust. It was founded...
Black Lizard
Black Lizard was a publisher imprint during the 1980s. A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades...
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Free River Press
Free River Press is a non-profit educational corporation. Its mission is to provide a platform from which ordinary Americans may document the rapidly changing nature of their society. This is done through Free River Press writing workshops, seminars...
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O'Reilly Media
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. Their distinctive brand features a woodcut of an...
Date founded:
- 1978
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ProQuest
ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based electronic publisher and microfilm publisher. It provides archives of sources such as newspapers, periodicals, dissertations, and aggregated databases of many types. Its content is estimated at 125...
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Modern Library
The Modern Library is a publishing company. It is currently a division of Random House publishers, and it was founded in 1917 by Albert Boni and Horace Liveright. It was bought in 1925 by Bennett Cerf. Random House began in 1927 as a subsidiary of...
Date founded:
- 1917
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Peachpit Press
Peachpit Press is one of the oldest and most prolific computer publishers, responsible for the Macintosh Bible series (after the first few editions), the Real World series, the Visual QuickStart Guide (VQS) series, and most of Robin Williams's...
Date founded:
- 1985
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Bantam Spectra
Bantam Spectra is the science-fiction division of Bantam Books, which is owned by Random House.
According to their website, Spectra publishes "science fiction, fantasy, horror, and speculative novels from recognizable authors" . Spectra authors have...
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City Lights Bookstore
City Lights is an independent bookstore- publisher combination that specializes in world literature, the arts, and progressive politics. It also houses the nonprofit City Lights Foundation, which publishes selected titles related to San Francisco...
Date founded:
- 1953
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HarperCollins
HarperCollins is a publishing company owned by News Corporation. It is the combination of the publishers William Collins, Sons and Co Ltd, a British company, and Harper & Row, an American company. The worldwide CEO of HarperCollins is Brian Murray....
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Merriam-Webster
Merriam–Webster, which was originally the G. & C. Merriam Company of Springfield, Massachusetts, is an American company that publishes reference books, especially dictionaries that are descendants of Noah Webster’s An American Dictionary of the...
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La Vieille Taupe
La Vieille Taupe is a publishing house in Paris known for antisemitic and Holocaust denial literature.
The name means Old Mole and comes from a communist conception of the maturation of social forces beneath the surface of society which eventually...
Date founded:
- 1965
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Scholastic Press
Scholastic (or Scholastic Inc.) is a North American book publishing company known for publishing educational materials for schools, teachers, and parents, and selling and distributing them by mail order and via book clubs and book fairs. It also has...
Date founded:
- 1925
Ronin Publishing
Ronin Publishing, Inc. is a small press in Berkeley, California, founded in 1983 and incorporated in 1985, which publishes books as tools for personal development, visionary alternatives, and expanded consciousness. Ronin's catalog includes the...
Date founded:
- 1983
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Enix
The Enix Corporation (株式会社エニックス, Kabushiki-gaisha Enikkusu) was a Japanese company that produced video games, Anime and manga. The company was founded by Yasuhiro Fukushima on September 22, 1975 as Eidansha Boshu Service Center (株式会社営団社募集サービスセンター,...
Date founded:
- Sep 22, 1975
Allen & Unwin
Allen & Unwin, formerly a major British publishing house, is now an independent book publisher and distributor based in Australia. The Australian directors have been the sole owners of the Allen & Unwin name since effecting a management buy out at...
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Alma Media
Alma Media (OMX: ALN1V) is one of the largest media companies in Finland.
Alma Media is specialized in newspapers, online media and other internet services. Its best known products are the Aamulehti, Iltalehti, Kauppalehti, Monster.fi, Etuovi.com...
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National Amusements
National Amusements, Inc. is a privately owned media and entertainment company based in Dedham, Massachusetts, USA. The company was founded in 1936 as the Northeast Theatre Corporation by Michael Redstone.
National Amusements is now owned by Michael...
Date founded:
- 1936
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Getty Images
Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA.
It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 70 million still images and illustrations and more than 30,000 hours of stock film footage....
Doubleday
The Doubleday Publishing Group is a publishing company.
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...
Date founded:
- 1897
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TOM Group
TOM Group Limited (SEHK: 2383) is a Chinese-language media company in the Greater China region, with business interests across markets in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong. Its business covers four media sectors, Internet (TOM Online), Outdoor ...
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Trinity Mirror
Trinity Mirror plc (LSE: TNI) is a large British newspaper and magazine publisher. It is Britain's biggest newspaper group, publishing 240 regional papers as well as the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror, People, Sunday Mail and Daily Record. Its...
Date founded:
- 1999
Nexus Books
Nexus Books is a British imprint of Virgin Books, publishing sado-masochistic pornography written mostly for men who have sex with women, and women who have sex with men or women. Virgin's other erotica imprint, Black Lace, accepts only work by...
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Skald
Skald forlag is a Norwegian publishing house situated in Leikanger by the Sognefjord in the western part of Norway. It was established in 1991 by Lars Nes and Jon Skjerdal. They produce among others touristic, humouristic, local historic, art and...
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Elsevier BV
Elsevier, the world's largest publisher of medical and scientific literature, forms part of the Reed Elsevier group. Based in Amsterdam, the company has substantial operations in the United Kingdom, USA and elsewhere.
Elsevier took its name (in...
Date founded:
- 1880
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Reed Elsevier plc
Reed Elsevier is a global publisher and information provider. It is listed on several of the world's major stock exchanges. The Reed Elsevier group is a dual-listed company consisting of Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV.
The company came into...
Ballantine Books
The Ballantine Publishing Group, better known as Ballantine Books, is a major American book publisher founded in 1952 by Ian Ballantine. It was acquired by Random House in 1973 and remains part of that company today. Ballantine's logo is a pair of...
Date founded:
- 1952
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Sweet & Maxwell
Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal publications, which joined the Thomson Organization in 1987, and is now part of the Thomson Reuters group. Its British group includes W. Green in Scotland and Round Hall in Ireland. Sweet ...
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Pathfinder tendency
The Pathfinder tendency is the unofficial name of a group of historically Trotskyist organizations that are politically and organizationally allied with the Socialist Workers Party of the United States and its perspective of solidarity with the...
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Beacon Press
Beacon Press is an American non-profit book publisher. Founded in 1854 by the American Unitarian Association, it is currently a department of the Unitarian Universalist Association.
Beacon Press is a member of the Association of American University...
Date founded:
- 1854
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Regnery Publishing
Regnery Publishing in Washington, D.C. is a publisher which specializes in conservative books characterized on their website as "contrary to those of 'mainstream' publishers in New York." Since 1993, Regnery Publishing has been a division of Eagle...
Date founded:
- 1947
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John Wiley & Sons
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., also referred to as Wiley, (NYSE: JWA) is a global publishing company that specializes in academic publishing and markets its products to professionals and consumers, students and instructors in higher education, and...
Date founded:
- 1807
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W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton & Company is an independent American book publishing company based in New York City. It is well known for its "Norton Anthologies", particularly the Norton Anthology of English Literature and the "Norton Critical Editions" series of...
Date founded:
- 1923
Penguin Books
Penguin Books is a publisher founded in 1935 by Allen Lane. Lane's idea was to provide quality writing cheaply, for the same price as a packet of cigarettes. He also wanted them to be sold not only in bookshops but in railway stations, general...
Date founded:
- 1935
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American Greetings
American Greetings Corporation, Inc. is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations),...
Date founded:
- 1906
Thunder Bay Press
Thunder Bay Press is a publisher, frequently known for its Then and Now books. It publishes nonfiction promotional books; often containing specially commissioned photography. Subjects include cooking, sports, history, transportation and nature. From...
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Xenos Books
Xenos Books is a publishing company in Riverside, California that was founded in 1985 by Karl Kvitko and Verona Weiss. The company is known for publishing bilingual books, and modern American and foreign writers in translation.
Date founded:
- 1985
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McGraw-Hill
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., (NYSE: MHP) is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are education, publishing, broadcasting, and financial and business services. It...
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Verso Books
Verso Books is a publishing house based in London and New York City, founded in 1970 by the staff of New Left Review. The company boasts "global sales approaching $3 million per year and over 350 titles in print," possibly making it "the largest...
Date founded:
- 1970
