This is a list of English-language book publishers. It includes imprints of larger publishaing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types. The list includes defunct publishers. It does not include businesses that are exclusively printers/manufacturers, vanity presses (publishing and distributing books for a fee), or book packagers.
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1517 Media – official publishing house of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 37 INK – an imprint of Atria
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A & C Black – now an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing A. C. McClurg A. S. Barnes & Co. founded by Alfred Smith Barnes Abilene Christian University Press Ablex Publishing – an imprint of Elsevier Abrams Books Academic Press – UK publisher; now an imprint of Elsevier Ace Books – an imprint of Penguin Group AcePremier Book Addison-Wesley – an imprint of Pearson Education Adis International – an imprint of Wolters Kluwer Akashic Books – independent small press; known for its noir series Aladdin Paperbacks – a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster Alfred A. Knopf Allen & Unwin Allison & Busby Alma Books Alyson Books American Graphics Institute And Other Stories André Deutsch – an imprint of the Carlton Publishing Group Andrews McMeel Publishing Anova Books – now rebranded as Pavilion Books Antenne Books Anvil Press Poetry Applewood Books Apress – technology book publisher Arbor House Arbordale Publishing Arcade Publishing Arcadia Publishing – local U.S. history Archipelago Books Arkham House Arktos Media Armida Publications Arsenal Pulp Press ArtScroll – an imprint of Mesorah Publications Ash-Tree Press Assouline Publishing Athabasca University Press Atheneum Books – a children's fiction imprint of Simon & Schuster Atlantic Books Atlas Press Atria Publishing Group – a division of Simon & Schuster a UK-based imprint of Little, Brown Aunt Lute Books – feminist publisher (US) Austin Macauley Publishers Avery Publishing – an imprint of the Penguin Group Avon Publications – an imprint of HarperCollins ()
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Baen Books Baker Publishing Group Ballantine Books Banner of Truth Trust – UK-based Christian publisher Bantam Books imprint owned by Random House Bantam Spectra specialist sci-fi imprint of Bantam Books Barrie & Jenkins Basic Books BBC Books Beacon Press Belknap Press Bella Books Bellevue Literary Press Bendon Publishing International Berg Publishers – now owned by Bloomsbury Publishing Berkley Books – an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Biblioasis Birlinn Bison Books Black & White Publishing Black Dog Publishing Black Ink Collective Black Library Black Sparrow Press Blackie and Son Blackstaff Press Blackwell Publishing Blake Publishing Bloodaxe Books Bloomsbury Publishing Blue Ribbon Books, Garden City, New York Bluemoose Books Bobbs-Merrill Company bought out in 1959 by Howard W. Sams Company Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications Book League of America Book Works Booktrope Borgo Press – an imprint of Wildside Press Boundless Bowes & Bowes Boydell & Brewer Broadside Lotus Press Breslov Research Institute Brill Publishers Bridget Williams Books Brimstone Press – Australian dark-fiction publisher Broadview Press Burns & Oates – now an imprint of the Continuum International Publishing Group Butterworth-Heinemann – UK-based imprint of Elsevier
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Caister Academic Press UK Cambridge University Press UK Canadian Science Publishing Candlewick Press Canongate Books Capstone Publishers Carcanet Press, Manchester Carlton Publishing Group UK Carnegie Mellon University Press Casemate Publishers – military history publisher Cassava Republic Press Cassell Cengage Central European University Press Century an imprint of Random House Chambers Charles Scribner's Sons Chatto & Windus Chelsea Green Publishing Chick Publications Chronicle Books Churchill Livingstone – an imprint of Elsevier Cisco Press City Lights Publishers Cloverdale Corporation Coach House Books Coffee House Press Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press Collector's Guide Publishing Collins – now part of HarperCollins Columbia University Press Comma Press Concordia Publishing House Constable & Co Ltd – now part of Constable & Robinson Continuum International Publishing Group – also known as Continuum Copper Canyon Press Cork University Press Cornell University Press Coronet Books – a paperback imprint of Hodder & Stoughton Counterpoint Craftsman Book Company CRC Press Cresset Press Crocker & Brewster Crown Publishing Group – a subsidiary of Random House
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D. Appleton & Company D. Reidel – now part of Springer Science+Business Media Da Capo Press – imprint of Perseus Books Group Dalkey Archive Press – a small fiction publisher based in Urbana, Illinois David & Charles David Bryce and Son DAW Books – science-fiction and fantasy imprint founded by Donald A. Wollheim Dedalus Books Deep Vellum Del Rey Books – a fantasy genre imprint of Random House Delacorte Press – an imprint of Random House Deseret Book Company The Dial Press Dick & Fitzgerald Directmedia Publishing Disney Publishing Worldwide DK DNA Publications Dobson Books Dodd, Mead & Co. Dorchester Publishing Doubleday – an imprint of Random House Douglas & McIntyre – Canadian publishing house Dove Medical Press Dover Publications Dreamspinner Press Dundurn Press – Canadian publishing house Dzanc Books
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E. P. Dutton – split into two imprints; now part of Penguin Group Earthscan – publisher of books and journals on environmental issues and renewable energy ECW Press Eel Pie Publishing Egmont Press Elliot Stock Ellora's Cave Elsevier now part of RELX Emerald Group Publishing Etruscan Press Europa Editions Europa Press Everyman's Library Ewha Womans University Press Exact Change Express Publishing
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Faber and Faber FabJob Fairview Press Fantagraphics Books Farrar, Straus and Giroux – an imprint of Henry Holt and Company Felony & Mayhem Press Feminist Press Firebrand Books Fitzcarraldo Editions Flame Tree Publishing Focal Press Folio Society Formac Publishing Company Forum Media Group Four Courts Press Four Walls Eight Windows Frederick Fell Publishers, Inc. Frederick Warne & Co – an imprint of Penguin Group Free Press Fremantle Press Fulcrum Press Funk & Wagnalls
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G. P. Putnam's Sons G-Unit Books Gaspereau Press Gay Men's Press Gefen Publishing House George H. Doran Company George Newnes Giramondo Publishing Godwit Press Golden Cockerel Press The Good Book Company (UK) Good News Publishers Goops Unlimited Goose Lane Editions Grafton Granta Graywolf Press Greenery Press Greenleaf Book Group Greenleaf Publishing Ltd Greenwillow Books – an imprint of HarperCollins Greenwood Publishing Group Gregg Press – a Boston, Massachusetts-based imprint of GK Hall & Company Grosset & Dunlap – an imprint of Penguin Group Grove Atlantic/Grove Press Guilford Press
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Hachette Books formerly Hyperion Books division of Disney Book Group, now a division of Perseus Books Group, a Hachette Book Group unit Hachette Book Group USA Hackett Publishing Company Hamish Hamilton a part of Penguin Books (UK) Harbor Mountain Press Harcourt Assessment previously the Psychological Corporation; now part of Harcourt Education Harcourt originally Harcourt Brace & Company (1919), then Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. (1960), and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (HBJ, 1970); now part of Harcourt Education Harlequin Enterprises Harper became Harper & Row Harper & Row now part of HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers HarperPrism an imprint of HarperCollins HarperTrophy an imprint of HarperCollins Harvard University Press Harvest House Harvill Press at Random House Harvill Secker Haus Publishing Hawthorne Books Hay House Haymarket Books Haynes Manual (UK) Headline Publishing Group Heinemann an imprint of the Harcourt Education division of RELX Hesperus Press Hemus Heyday Books HMSO Hodder & Stoughton Hogarth Press Holland Park Press Holt McDougal Hoover Institution Press Horizon Scientific Press (UK) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt House of Anansi Press The House of Murky Depths (UK) Howell-North Books a defunct US publisher of history and Americana Humana Press Hutchinson
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Ian Allan Publishing Ignatius Press Indiana University Press Influx Press Informa Information Age Publishing Insomniac Press Canada International Association of Engineers – Hong Kong International Universities Press Inter-Varsity Press – IVP UK InterVarsity Press – IVP USA Ishi Press Islamic Texts Society Island Press Ivyspring International Publisher
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J.J. Little & Ives Company J. M. Dent J. Q. Preble Jaico Publishing House James Lorimer & Company The Jarrold Group The Jewish Publication Society John Lane John Murray Johns Hopkins University Press Jones & Bartlett Learning a division of Ascend Learning
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Karadi Tales – publishes audiobooks and picture books Kensington Books Kessinger Publishing Kluwer Academic Publishers Knockabout Comics Kodansha – a Japanese publisher which publishes some books in English Kogan Page – publishes financial books Koren Publishers Jerusalem – publishes Jewish religious texts and works on contemporary Jewish thought Korero Press – art book publisher concentrating on graphic design and illustration KTAV Publishing House Kumarian Press – publishes academic books on international development
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Ladybird Books Last Gasp Leaf Books Leafwood Publishers – an imprint of Abilene Christian University Press Lee & Low Books Left Book Club Legend Books a San Francisco, California-based imprint of Random House Legend Press Lethe Press Libertas Academica Liberty Fund Library of America The Lilliput Press Lion Hudson Lion Publishing – now a part of Lion Hudson Lionel Leventhal Lippincott Williams & Wilkins – an imprint of Wolters Kluwer Little, Brown and Company Liverpool University Press Llewellyn Worldwide Longman LPI Media The Lutterworth Press
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Macmillan Publishers Mainstream Publishing Manchester University Press Mandrake of Oxford Mandrake Press Manning Publications Manor House Publishing Marion Boyars Publishers Marshall Cavendish Marshall Pickering a Christian imprint of HarperCollins Martinus Nijhoff Publishers an imprint of Brill Publishers Matthias Media McClelland & Stewart McFarland & Company McGraw-Hill Education Medknow Publications Melbourne University Publishing Melville House Publishing Mercier Press Ireland's oldest independent publishing house Methuen Publishing Michael Joseph Michael O'Mara Books Michigan State University Press Microsoft Press a publishing arm of Microsoft The Miegunyah Press Miles Kelly Publishing Milkweed Editions Mills & Boon Minerva Press Mirage Publishing (UK) publishes books on mind, body and spirit, and self-help MIT Press Mkuki na Nyota Modern Library Monstrous Regiment Publishing Morgan James Publishing Mother Tongue Publishing Mycroft & Moran an imprint of Arkham House Myriad Editions
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Naiad Press Nauka NavPress New American Library New Beacon Books New Directions Publishing New English Library New Holland Publishers The New Press New Village Press New Win Publishing New York Review Books New York University Press Newnes No Starch Press Nonesuch Press Noontide Press Northwestern University Press Nosy Crow
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Oberon Books Oneworld Publications Open Book Publishers Open Court Publishing Company Open University Press OR Books Orchard Books O'Reilly Media Orion Books Orion Publishing Group Osprey Publishing Other Press The Overlook Press Oxford University Press
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Packt Palgrave Macmillan