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Perseus Books Group
USINFO | 2013-08-02 13:06
| Perseus Books Group | |
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| Parent company | Perseus LLC |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Founder | Frank Pearl |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | New York City |
| Key people | David Steinberger (President and CEO) |
| Imprints | 12 |
| Official website | perseusbooksgroup.com |
Perseus Books Group is an Americanpublishing company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. It was named Publisher of the Year in 2007 by Publishers Weekly magazine for its role in taking on publishers formerly distributed by Publishers Group West and acquiring Avalon Publishing Group.
In January 2007, Perseus Book Group purchased Avalon Publishing Group, the parent company of Carroll & Graf and Thunder's Mouth Press; the purchaser folded both imprints and stopped publishing books under those names in May 2007.
Imprints
The Perseus Books Group currently has 12 imprints:
• Avalon Travel
• Basic Books
• Basic Civitas
• Beast Books
• DaCapo
• Nation Books
• Running Press
• PublicAffairs
• Seal Press
• Weinstein Books
• Westview
• Vanguard Press
Former imprints
Before Avalon Publishing Group was integrated into the Perseus Books Group, it published on 14 imprint presses.[5] In 2007, some of these imprints were integrated into the Perseus Books Group, while others folded or were sold to other companies. Perseus also sold one of their imprints in the restructuring process.
Avalon Publishing Group:
• Avalon Travel Publishing
• Axoplasm
• Black Square Editions
• Blue Moon Books
• Carroll & Graf Publishers - folded in 2007
• Four Walls Eight Windows
• Marlowe & Company - absorbed into the DaCapo imprint
• No Exit Press
• Seal Press
• Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers - sold to Counterpoint LLC
• Thunder's Mouth Press - folded in 2007
Perseus Books Group:
• Counterpoint Press - sold to Counterpoint LLC
