Publisher

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

Major publishing companies include:

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

Noted Small Presses:

• Arkham House
• Black Classic Press
• City Lights Publishers
• Dalkey Archive Press
• Gregg Press
• Les Éditions de Minuit
• Underwood-Miller

See also

• Publishing
• List of publishers