Publishers by country
Publishers in United States
321 publishing houses and imprints with headquarters or registration in United States, from Marvel Comics to smaller presses.
| Name | Founded | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Marvel Comics | 1961 | Company that publishes comic books and related media |
| DC Comics | 1977 | American comic book publisher, a subsidiary of Warner Bros. Discovery |
| HarperCollins | 1817 | Anglo-American publishing house |
| Random House | 1927 | American general-interest trade book publisher |
| Simon & Schuster | 1924 | American publishing company |
| Merriam-Webster | 1831 | American dictionary publisher |
| Dark Horse Comics, LLC | 1986 | American publishing company |
| Wiley | 1807 | American multinational publishing company |
| Doubleday | 1897 | American publishing company |
| Condé Nast | 1909 | American mass media company |
| Penguin Random House | 2013 | Multinational conglomerate publishing company |
| University of California Press | 1893 | American publishing house |
| Viz Media, LLC | 1984 | American entertainment company |
| The MIT Press | 1932 | American university press |
| Image Comics | 1992 | American comic book publisher |
| University of Chicago Press | 1891 | Publisher in the United States |
| Johns Hopkins University Press | 1878 | American scholarly publisher |
| Sage Publishing | 1965 | U.S. scientific publisher |
| Archie Comics | 1939 | American comic book publisher |
| The New York Times Company | 1851 | American mass media company |
| Alfred A. Knopf | 1915 | American publishing house |
| Scholastic Corporation | 1920 | American publishing, education, and media company |
| Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 1880 | American publisher of textbooks |
| O’Reilly Media | 1978 | American educational publisher |
| Wiley-Blackwell | 2001 | International scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John… |
| Viking Press | 1925 | American book publisher |
| CRC Press | 1903 | American publisher |
| TSR | 1973 | Former company, publisher of Dungeons & Dragons |
| Little, Brown and Company | 1837 | American publishing company founded in 1837 |
| Tor Books | 1980 | Imprint (US) |
| Yen Press, LLC | 2006 | American publishing company |
| St. Martin's Press | 1952 | American book publisher |
| Charles Scribner's Sons | 1846 | American publisher |
| Ace Books | 1952 | Oldest active specialty publisher of science fiction and fantasy books |
| White Wolf Publishing | 1990 | American roleplaying game and book publisher |
| McFarland & Company | 1979 | American book publishing company |
| Seven Seas Entertainment | 2004 | American book publisher |
| Prentice Hall | 1913 | Educational publisher |
| Academic Press | 1941 | American academic publisher (1942-) |
| Stanford University Press | 1892 | American university press |
| McGraw-Hill Education | 1888 | Educational science, technology, engineering, and math publisher |
| WildStorm | 1992 | American comic book imprint |
| Addison-Wesley | 1942 | American publisher of textbooks and computer literature |
| Ballantine Books | 1952 | American book publisher |
| Encyclopædia Britannica Inc. | 1768 | British-American publisher; publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica |
| Heinemann | 1890 | British publishing house William Heinemann survives in name as Hutchinson Heinemann… |
| ABC-CLIO | 1953 | American publisher |
| Vertigo | 1993 | Imprint of comic-book publisher DC Comics |
| Hachette Book Group | 1837 | Publishing company owned by Hachette Livre |
| The Globe Pequot Publishing Group | 1949 | Independent publishing house |
| Cornell University Press | 1869 | American university press |
| Greenwood Publishing Group | 1967 | Educational and academic publisher |
| Henry Holt and Company | 1866 | American publishing company established 1866, under this name from 1873, succeeded by… |
| Bantam Books | 1945 | Publisher from the USA |
| G. P. Putnam's Sons | 1838 | US book publisher, under this name from 1872 |
| W. W. Norton & Company | 1923 | American publishing company |
| Jewish Publication Society | 1888 | The oldest nonprofit, nondenominational publisher of Jewish works in English |
| EC Comics | 1944 | American comic book company |
| Dover Publications | 1941 | American book publisher |
| Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 1946 | American book publishing company |
| Macmillan Inc. | 1896 | American publishing company |
| United States Playing Card Company | 1867 | Playing card manufacturer |
| Arkham House | 1939 | American publishing house specializing in weird fiction |
| Gale | 1954 | American publisher (1954-) |
| Dell Publishing | 1921 | American publisher of books, magazines and comic books |
| Basic Books | 1950 | American book publisher |
| William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | 1911 | American publishing house |
| Dynamite Entertainment | 2004 | American comic book company |
| Fawcett Comics | 1939 | American publishing, imprint of Fawcett Publishing |
| University of Illinois Press | 1918 | American university press |
| Tribune Publishing | 2014 | American publishing company |
| National Geographic Partners | 2015 | American media company; joint venture of The Walt Disney Company and the National… |
| AK Press | 1987 | Independent publisher based in the US and UK |
| Rand McNally | 1856 | American publishing company (Chicago) |
| University Press of Kentucky | 1969 | Scholarly publisher for Kentucky |
| State University of New York Press | 1966 | American university press |
| City Lights Bookstore | 1953 | Bookstore and publisher in San Francisco |
| Dodd, Mead & Co. | 1839 | American publishing house |
| Harper | 1817 | American publishing company |
| Pocket Books | 1939 | American publisher founded by Robert de Graff and others as mass market paperback pioneer |
| Avatar Press | 1996 | American independent comic book publisher |
| Ignatius Press | 1978 | Catholic publishing house |
| Marquis Who's Who | 1899 | American publishing company |
| Bongo Comics Group | 1993 | American comic publisher |
| William Morrow | 1926 | American book publishing imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Zondervan | 1931 | Christian publishing company |
| Kodansha USA Publishing, LLC | 2008 | Publishing company based in New York, USA and a subsidiary of Japan's largest publishing… |
| Springer Publishing | 1950 | American publishing company |
| Harcourt | 1919 | United States publishing firm |
| Grand Central Publishing | 2006 | US book publisher; a division of Hachette Book Group |
| Regnery Publishing | 1947 | American book publisher |
| Fantagraphics Books | 1976 | Comics publishing company |
| Oni Press | 1997 | American comic book and graphic novel publisher |
| The McClatchy Company | 1857 | American publishing company |
| Modern Library | 1917 | American publishing company |
| Da Capo Press | 1964 | American publisher; book publishing imprint of Perseus Books Group from 1999; in turn… |
| Microsoft Press | 1984 | Book publishing company by Microsoft |
| Abrams Books | 1949 | US publisher |
| Hal Leonard | 1947 | American music publishing and distribution company |
| University of Minnesota Press | 1925 | American university press |
| Hachette Books | 1990 | American book imprint |
| PM Press | 2007 | American independent publisher |
| Galoob | 1957 | Toy company |
| Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd | 1798 | Scottish publishing firm, now part of HarperCollins |
| Chronicle Books | 1967 | American independent book publisher |
| Baen Books | 1983 | Publisher |
| Black Sparrow Books | 1966 | Book publisher |
| CrossGen | 1998 | Company |
| Top Cow Productions | 1992 | American comics publisher |
| Funk & Wagnalls | 1875 | American publisher |
| Avon | 1941 | American paperback book and comic book publisher |
| Eclipse Comics | 1977 | American comic book publisher |
| RR Donnelley | 1864 | American printing and communications company |
| D. Appleton & Company | 1831 | American publishing company |
| Grosset & Dunlap | 1898 | New York publisher |
| Icon Comics | 2004 | Imprint of Marvel Comics |
| New Directions Publishing | 1936 | Independent book publishing company |
| Antarctic Press | 1984 | American comic publishing company |
| Bella Books | 2001 | American publishing house specializing in lesbian literature |
| Berghahn Books | 1994 | Academic publisher |
| Deseret Book | 1866 | American publishing company |
| Prometheus Books | 1969 | American publishing company |
| Malibu Comics | 1986 | Former comic book company now part of Marvel Comics |
| Topps | 1938 | American manufacturer of chewing gum, candy and collectibles |
| Stratemeyer Syndicate | — | Book packager in the USA responsible for many young adult series |
| Pacific Comics | 1971 | Former comic book publisher |
| DAW Books | 1971 | American book publisher |
| Western Publishing | 1900 | Western Publishing, also known as Western Printing and Lithography Company, was a… |
| Fawcett Publications | 1919 | American publishing company founded in 1919 |
| Experimenter Publishing | 1915 | American media company |
| Warren Publishing | 1957 | Publisher |
| Kessinger Publishing | 1988 | American print-on-demand publishing company in Whitefish, Montana |
| Tuttle Publishing | 1948 | Book publisher |
| University Press of America | 1975 | Academic publisher in US |
| Infobase Publishing | 2005 | American publisher |
| Kitchen Sink Press | 1969 | American comic book publisher |
| SLG Publishing | 1986 | Company |
| First Comics | 1983 | American comic book publisher (1983-1991) |
| Alyson Books | 1980 | Book publishing house |
| Begell House | 1991 | Academic publisher |
| Fodor's | 1949 | Publisher of travel guide books |
| Edward Elgar Publishing | 1986 | Academic publishing company |
| Haymarket Books | 2001 | American Chicago-based non-profit publisher of books about socialism |
| Arcadia Publishing | 1993 | American publisher |
| Edwin Mellen Press | 1972 | Publisher |
| Syracuse University Press | 1943 | American university press |
| Grolier | 1895 | Publisher of educational and reference books |
| Kehot Publication Society | 1942 | Publication society of the Chabad Lubavitch hasidic movement. |
| Boni & Liveright | 1917 | Publisher |
| Northwestern University Press | 1893 | American publishing house |
| Krause Publications | 1952 | American publisher of hobby magazines and books |
| University of Nebraska Press | 1941 | American university press |
| Beacon Press | 1854 | American non-profit book publisher |
| J. B. Lippincott & Co. | 1836 | American publishing house founded in 1836 |
| Del Rey Manga | 2004 | American publishing company |
| New American Library | 1948 | American publisher |
| Farrar & Rinehart | 1929 | American publisher, renamed Rinehart & Co. 1946, succeeded by Holt, Rinehart & Winston… |
| George H. Doran Company | 1908 | American publisher active between 1908 to 1927, later merged with what's called… |
| Riverhead Books | 1994 | Imprint of Penguin Group (USA) founded in 1993 by Susan Petersen Kennedy |
| Arbor House | 1969 | American publisher |
| Westminster John Knox | 1838 | Religion books publisher based in Louisville, KY, United States |
| Ticknor and Fields | 1854 | American publishing company based in Boston, Massachusetts; named for William D. Ticknor… |
| Transaction Publishers | 1962 | American publishing house |
| Two Plus Two Publishing | — | Publisher |
| Pantheon Books | 1942 | American book publishing imprint |
| Naiad Press | 1973 | Defunct American publishing company (1973 - 2003) |
| IGI Global Scientific Publishing | 1988 | American publishing company |
| Grove Press | 1951 | American publishing house |
| Amazon Publishing | 2009 | Amazon's book publishing unit launched in 2009 |
| American Book Company | 1890 | Defunct US educational book publisher; onetime general interest publishing conglomerate |
| Schocken Books | 1931 | Publishing house founded by Salman Schocken |
| Sightline Media Group | 1940 | American publishing company |
| Graphis Inc. | 1944 | International publishing company from NYC |
| Quirk Books | 2002 | American independent book publisher |
| Smashwords | 2008 | Ebook retailer |
| McLoughlin Brothers | 1858 | Defunct American company |
| Island Press | 1984 | American publishing company |
| Roc Books | 2002 | American fantasy publishing imprint |
| Detroit Publishing Co. | 1890 | Defunct postcard publisher based in Detroit, Michigan |
| Devil's Due Publishing | 1999 | Comic book publisher |
| Standard Comics | 1936 | Former comic book publisher |
| Stone Bridge Press | 1989 | American publisher on Japanese topics |
| Lancer Books | 1961 | American publisher |
| Hay House | 1984 | United States publishing company |
| Jessica Kingsley Publishers | 1987 | Book publisher |
| McSweeney's | 1998 | American publishing house |
| Dial Press | 1923 | Publishing house founded in 1923 by Lincoln MacVeagh |
| Abbeville Publishing Group | 1977 | Book publisher in New York, USA |
| Gulf Publishing Company | 1916 | Houston-based international publishing and events business dedicated to the global… |
| W. H. Freeman and Company | 1946 | Publishing imprint |
| Prima Games | 1990 | Company |
| Georgetown University Press | 1964 | University press |
| Chilton Company | 1896 | Former publishing company based in Boston |
| Ardis Publishing | 1971 | Publishing house dedicated in making Russian literature and English literature |
| Samuel French, Inc. | 1830 | American publishing company |
| CreateSpace | 2000 | Self-publishing service |
| Skyhorse Publishing | 2006 | American independent book publishing company |
| ReganBooks | 1994 | Closed publishing imprint of HarperCollins |
| Gladstone Publishing | 1985 | US publishing company |
| Gold Key Comics | 1962 | American comic book publisher |
| Feral House | 1989 | American publishing house |
| Philtrum Press | — | Publisher |
| Arte Público Press | 1979 | Publisher of contemporary and recovered literature by US Hispanic authors |
| Cleis Press | 1980 | American originally lesbian book publisher |
| Tyndale House | 1962 | American Christian book publishing company |
| Reynal & Hitchcock | 1933 | Publishing company in New York |
| Bedford-St. Martin's | 1981 | American publishing company |
| Papercutz | 2005 | American publisher of graphic novels for children, tweens, and teens |
| Night Shade Books | 1997 | American book publishing imprint of Skyhorse Publishing |
| No Starch Press | 1994 | American publishing company |
| TarcherPerigee | 1973 | Book publisher and imprint of Penguin Group |
| Boss Fight Books | 2013 | American book publisher |
| Sterling Publishing | 1949 | Publisher |
| WaRP Graphics | 1977 | Alternative comics publisher |
| Chaos! Comics | 1994 | Company |
| Feldheim Publishers | 1939 | American Orthodox Jewish publisher of Torah books and literature |
| BiblioBazaar | — | American publishing house |
| Washington Summit Publishers | 2006 | American white nationalist publisher |
| Westview Press | 1975 | American book publisher (1975-2020) |
| David McKay Publications | 1882 | US book & comic publisher (1882–1986) |
| David R. Godine, Publisher | 1970 | American book publishing company |
| Last Gasp | 1970 | American publisher |
| Miramax Books | 1979 | Former publishing company |
| Top Shelf Productions | 1997 | American comic publishing company |
| South End Press | 1977 | American publisher |
| Morgan Kaufmann Publishers | 1984 | Computer science imprint of Elsevier; originally an independent computer science and AI… |
| Perseus Books Group | 1996 | American publishing company |
| Parallax Press | — | Non-profit book publisher |
| Llewellyn Worldwide | 1901 | American publishing house |
| Eastern Color Printing | 1928 | Printing company and comic book publisher |
| ESPN Books | 2004 | American publishing company owned by ESPN |
| Paladin Press | 1970 | American book publisher (1970–2018) |
| Mosby | 1906 | US academic publisher of textbooks and academic journals |
| Bobbs-Merrill Company | 1850 | Former book publisher |
| Merrymount Press | 1893 | US publishing house in Boston |
| Digital Manga | 1996 | American publishing company |
| A. C. McClurg | 1844 | American publisher and bookseller |
| Fairchild Fashion Media | 1892 | American publisher |
| Holyoke Publishing | 1940 | American publishing company |
| AuthorHouse | 1997 | American publishing company |
| Crown Publishing Group | 1933 | American publishing company |
| F. A. Davis Company | 1879 | Philadelphia publisher |
| M. E. Sharpe | 1958 | American publisher |
| Henry Altemus Company | 1842 | Philadelphia publishing company |
| Nova Publishers | 1985 | American academic publishing company |
| Novelty Press | 1940 | Defunct American comic book publishing company |
| Penn State University Press | 1956 | American university press |
| Popular Library | 1942 | American publisher |
| Regal Crest Enterprises | 1999 | American gay/lesbian publisher |
| The Reilly & Britton Co. | 1904 | American publishing company |
| Harmony Books | 1972 | Imprint of the Crown Publishing Group |
| Third Woman Press | 1979 | Queer and feminist-of-color publisher forum |
| Semiotext(e) | 1974 | American independent publisher of literature |
| Shambhala Publications | 1969 | American publishing company |
| Watson-Guptill | 1937 | American publisher |
| Way and Williams Publishers | 1895 | American publishing house |
| Times Books | 2000 | Publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company |
| Thomas Y. Crowell Co. | 1876 | American publishing company |
| Vertical | 2001 | American publishing company |
| Villard | 1983 | Publishing imprint of Random House |
| American Tract Society | — | American evangelical organization |
| KTAV Publishing House | 1924 | American publisher |
| Iron Circus Comics | 2007 | American graphic novel publisher |
| Daughters, Inc. | — | American feminist publishing company |
| J-Novel Club LLC | 2016 | American publishing company |
| Mad Cave Studios | 2014 | Comic book publisher from Miami |
| Encounter Books | 1997 | American book publisher |
| Europa Editions | 2005 | Independent book publisher based in New York |
| Harvest House | 1974 | American Christian publishing company |
| HarperOne | — | Publisher |
| L. C. Page & Company | — | US book publisher (Boston) from 1897, successor to the Joseph Knight Company; as The… |
| Appleton-Century-Crofts | 1948 | Former division of the Meredith Publishing Company |
| Workman Publishing Company | 1968 | American book publishing company |
| International Publishers | 1924 | Book publishing firm |
| OR Books | 2009 | American publisher |
| Orbis Books | 1970 | American publisher |
| Other Press | 1998 | American independent publisher |
| Hermes Press | 2000 | American book publisher |
| Zenescope Entertainment | 2005 | Comic book and graphic novel publisher |
| Sasquatch Books | 1986 | American book publisher |
| Seven Stories Press | 1995 | American independent book publisher |
| Tachyon Publications | 1995 | American book publisher |
| Ten Speed Press | 1971 | American book publisher |
| Three Rivers Press | 1992 | Imprint of Crown Publishing Group |
| Studio Ironcat | 1997 | Company |
| Princeton Architectural Press | 1981 | Publisher |
| St. John Publications | 1947 | Defunct American publishing company |
| Lee & Shepard | 1862 | Publishing and bookselling firm in Boston, Massachusetts, USA |
| International Universities Press | 1944 | Academic publishing company |
| Tower Comics | 1965 | American comic book publisher |
| Johnson Publishing Company | 1942 | American publishing company based in Chicago, Illinois |
| I. W. Publications | 1958 | American publishing company |
| Allyn & Bacon | 1868 | Academic publisher |
| Andrews McMeel Publishing | 1975 | American publishing company |
| Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. | 1980 | Publishing company in New Rochelle, United States |
| Aqueduct Press | 2004 | American book publisher |
| BenBella Books | 2001 | Independent publishing house based in Dallas |
| Binford & Mort | 1930 | Book publisher in Hillsboro, Oregon, United States |
| Bloch Publishing Company | — | Jewish publisher in the U.S. |
| Allen Press | 1935 | Company in Lawrence, United States |
| Necronomicon Press | 1976 | American small press publisher |
| D. C. Heath and Company | 1885 | Publisher, USA |
| Dalkey Archive Press | 1984 | American publisher of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism |
| Dorchester Publishing | 1971 | American publishing company |
| Dorrance Publishing Co. | 1920 | Subsidy publisher of printed and ebooks |
| Dramatists Play Service | 1936 | American publisher of plays |
| Ecco | 1971 | New York–based publishing imprint of HarperCollins |
| Braided River | — | |
| Advent:Publishers | 1956 | American publishing house |
| Broadway Books | 1996 | U.S. publishing house |
| Evening News Association | — | |
| Avalon Books | 1950 | Former New York-based book publishing imprint |
| Donald M. Grant, Publisher | 1964 | American book publisher |
| G. K. Hall & Co. | 1970 | American book publisher based in Boston |
| Hill & Wang | 1956 | American publisher |
| Hippocrene Books | 1970 | US publishing press |
| Humana Press | 1976 | Defunct American academic publisher |
| Marcel Dekker | 1963 | Publishing company |
| Chicago Review Press | 1973 | U.S. book publisher |
| Lethe Press | 2001 | American small press |
| Pacific Press Publishing Association | 1874 | Seventh-day Adventist publishing house |