Publisher

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

Major publishing companies include:

• AOL Time Warner. Includes Warner Books and Little, Brown.
• Hachette Filipacchi Media.
• Hearst Corporation.
• Random House. Includes imprints Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, Delacorte, Delta, Alfred A. Knopf.
• Reed Elsevier. Major publisher of scientific literature.
• Simon & Schuster, a division of Viacom. It includes Scribner.
• Farrar Straus Giroux.
• Harper Collins. Includes William Morrow and Avon.
• Penguin Putnam. Includes imprints Riverhead, Berkeley, Viking.
• Longman
• Shogaku-kan
• Shuei-sha

Noted Small Presses:

• Arkham House
• Black Classic Press
• City Lights Publishers
• Dalkey Archive Press
• Gregg Press
• Underwood-Miller

See also: publishing