1.A publisher is a person or entity which engages in the act of publishing.

Contents

1 Major publishing companies include 2 Noted small presses 3 France 4 See also

Major publishing companies include

• AOL Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown
• ASCII
• Baen Books
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Hachette Filipacchi Media
• Harlequin Mills & Boon
• Harper Collins, including William Morrow and Avon
• Hearst Corporation
• Kodansha, notable for manga
• Longman
• McGraw-Hill
• Penguin Group (USA), imprints include Riverhead, Berkley Books, Viking.
• Random House, imprints Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, Delacorte, Delta, Alfred A. Knopf
• Reed Elsevier, a major publisher of scientific literature
• Simon & Schuster, a division of Viacom, including Scribner
• Shogakukan, notable for manga
• Shueisha, notable for manga
• W. H. Freeman and Company

Noted small presses

• Arkham House
• Black Classic Press
• City Lights Publishers
• Coach House Press
• Dalkey Archive Press
• Deseret Book
• Fantagraphics Books
• Gregg Press
• Greenery Press
• Underwood-Miller
• Loompanics

France

• Éditions José Corti
• Éditions Gallimard
  • Éditions Denoël
  • Les Éditions du Mercure de France
  • Nouveaux Loisirs (tourist guides)
  • Gallimard Jeunesse
  • P.O.L.
  • Les Éditions de la Table Ronde
• Les Éditions de Minuit

See also

• Publishing
• List of publishers
• List of publishers of children's books

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