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This is a list of English-language book publishers.It includes imprints of larger publishing groups, which may have resulted from business mergers. Included are academic publishers, technical manual publishers, publishers for the traditional book trade (both for adults and children), religious publishers, and small press publishers, among other types.
Defunct book publishing companies of the United States (2 C, 117 P) University presses of the United States (18 C, 140 P) American speculative fiction publishers (1 C, 61 P)
Independent publishers (as defined above) made up about half of the market share of the book publishing industry in the United States in 2007. [3] The majority of small presses are independent or indie publishers, meaning that they are separate from the handful of major publishing house conglomerates, such as Random House or Hachette. [4]
Tyrant Books was created to publish books less suited to large publishing houses, often because of their non-mainstream appeal. Giancarlo DiTrapano is quoted in the Los Angeles Review of Books as saying: "It would have taken forever for me to do anything I wanted to do [working for a traditional publishing house], but I had a little money, so I started a press."
The company was founded in 2003 in Virginia by David L. Hancock. [3] In their early years, Morgan James provided a hybrid of traditional publishing and a subsidy publisher model in which entrepreneurial business nonfiction authors pre-paid fees against the publisher's royalties to be published.
Other early printer and publisher members include John Bishop Putnam, James J. Little and Benjamin Collins. The Center provides access to education and expertise in the field of independent publishing, networking opportunities, workshops, teleseminars, lectures, its annual small press book fair and exhibits.
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