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Book Publishers Directory: Profiles & Imprints

Profiles of 1,194 publishers and imprints from 73 countries, compiled from Wikidata and Wikipedia.

1,194publishers & imprints
73countries
34university presses
106historic / defunct

Most prominent publishers

Marvel Comics United States · 1961Company that publishes comic books and related media DC Comics United States · 1977American comic book publisher, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery Elsevier Netherlands · 1880Dutch publishing and analytics company Shueisha Japan · 1925Japanese publishing company Bloomsbury Publishing United KingdomBritish worldwide publishing house founded in 1986 Routledge United Kingdom · 1851British multinational academic publisher founded in 1836 HarperCollins United States · 1817Anglo-American publishing house Kodansha Japan · 1909Japanese publishing company Random House United States · 1927American general-interest trade book publisher Simon & Schuster United States · 1924American publishing company Merriam-Webster United States · 1831American dictionary publisher Macmillan Publishers United Kingdom · 1843International publishing company Bertelsmann Germany · 1835German multinational media, services and education company Springer Science+Business Media Germany · 1842Global publishing company Éditions Gallimard France · 1911French publishing company Shogakukan Japan · 1922Japanese publishing company Penguin Books United Kingdom · 1935Imprint of Penguine Random House Dark Horse Comics, LLC United States · 1986American publishing company Éditions Larousse France · 1852French publishing house Thomson Reuters Canada · 2008Canadian publisher (2008-) Kadokawa Shoten Japan · 1945Japanese publishing brand (previous company name) Wiley United States · 1807American multinational publishing company Doubleday United States · 1897American publishing company Brill Netherlands · 1683Dutch international academic publisher Condé Nast United States · 1909American mass media company Penguin Random House United States · 2013Multinational conglomerate publishing company University of California Press United States · 1893American publishing house Viz Media, LLC United States · 1984American entertainment company The MIT Press United States · 1932American university press Image Comics United States · 1992American comic book publisher University of Chicago Press United States · 1891Publisher in the United States Taylor & Francis United Kingdom · 1852Commercial publishing group Johns Hopkins University Press United States · 1878American scholarly publisher Wolters Kluwer Netherlands · 1836Global information services company Sage Publishing United States · 1965U.S. scientific publisher Archie Comics United States · 1939American comic book publisher The New York Times Company United States · 1851American mass media company Taschen Germany · 1980German publisher of art books Alfred A. Knopf United States · 1915American publishing house Scholastic Corporation United States · 1920American publishing, education, and media company DK United Kingdom · 1974British publisher of general reference and illustrated non-fiction books De Gruyter Germany · 1918German academic publisher headquartered in Berlin Houghton Mifflin Harcourt United States · 1880American publisher of textbooks Casterman Belgium · 1777Belgian book/comics publisher Ziff Davis 1927American publisher and Internet company Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom · 2000English publishing house O’Reilly Media United States · 1978American educational publisher Lagardère Group France · 1992French media company

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Publishers by century founded

CenturyPublishers
1400s2
1500s1
1600s2
1700s23
1800s202
1900s759
2000s130

Sources & data

  • Publisher data from Wikidata (CC0); summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).