Perseus Books Group

Perseus Books Group was an American publishing company founded in year 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence Books imprint) in 1997. In 2005, Perseus acquired Client Distribution Services, the former distribution arm of Random House. It was named Publisher of the Year in 2007 by Publishers Weekly magazine for its role in taking on publishers formerly distributed by the Publishers Group West and acquiring Avalon Publishing Group. In January 2007, the Perseus Books Group purchased Avalon Publishing Group, the parent company of Carroll & Graf Publishers and Thunder's Mouth Press. The purchaser folded both imprints and stopped publishing books under those names in May 2007. In 2014, after the bankruptcy auction of Good Books assets, Skyhorse Publishing sold the Mayo Clinic line to Perseus.

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