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unusual facts about book publishing



BookExpo America

BookExpo America (commonly referred to within the book publishing industry as BEA) is the largest annual book trade fair in the United States.

Sunset Books

Sunset Books is a book publishing company that operates as a part of Southern Progress Corporation's Oxmoor House book publishing division.


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Bonnier Group

The Bonnier book publishing companies in Sweden that are part of book publishing house Bonnierförlagen now include Albert Bonniers förlag, Wahlström & Widstrand, Forum, and Bonnier Carlsen, as well as other book publishers and imprints in Sweden.

Brown Shoe

In the 1940s and 50s the company made a brief foray into the comic book publishing industry, producing Buster Brown Comics, which featured the character on the cover, but contained different adventure features, such as Robin Hood.

Carmen Callil

Callil left book publishing in 1994, and for some years divided her time between London and Caunes-Minervois in France.

Circumstantial Productions

Circumstantial Productions is a multimedia production and book publishing company founded by Richard Connolly in Nyack, New York.

Clément Richard

Richard was president and founder of MétéoMédia, Expotech Imax and the Quebec book publishing company Mondia.

Deutscher Fotobuchpreis

The Deutscher Fotobuchpreis or German Photobook Prize is an annual group of awards made by a selected jury, with the purpose of celebrating and honoring exemplary projects in the field of visual-led book publishing originated in Germany.

Erika Lopez

Along with James Swanson, Kamala Lopez, and Jeffrey Hicken, they started a book publishing company, Monster Girl Media to go along with Monster Girl Movies, as a part of their coalition of Do-it-Yourself businesses in charge of their own development, production, merchandising, and promotion.

Frances Pinter

Dr Frances Pinter is the founder and executive director of Knowledge Unlatched, a not-for-profit company creating a global library consortium enabling sustainable open access academic book publishing.

Frank Ching

Ching has received the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design from Nottingham Trent University; the S.Y. Chung Visiting Fellowship, New Asia College, Chinese University of Hong Kong; and a Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book Publishing.

Grupo RBS

Grupo RBS has yet other branches of operation: HSM (executive education, media and events company) – Digital Product Development unit – Kzuka (aimed at young audiences) – Events – RBS Publicações (book publishing) – Orbeat Music (record company) – Mídia Gráfica (printing) – Vialog (logistics company) – Fundação Maurício Sirotsky Sobrinho (social trust).

Harvey Aronson

He was part of a group of Newsday reporters involved in writing the bestselling hoax novel Naked Came the Stranger, initially credited to fictional author Penelope Ashe, and published as a parody of commercialized book publishing in general and of novels in the genre of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls in particular.

History of Microsoft

This expansion included Microsoft Press, a book publishing division, on July 11 the same year, which debuted with two titles: Exploring the IBM PCjr Home Computer by Peter Norton, and The Apple Macintosh Book by Cary Lu.

Jarir

Jarir: A Saudi company specializes in office retailing and book publishing.

John Penrose

He was Commercial Director of the Academic Books Division at Thomson Publishing in Andover from 1995-6, then Managing Director of Schools Book Publishing at Longman (Pearson PLC), publishing school textbooks for the UK and parts of Africa.

Laissez Faire Books

Before being taken over by ISIL, Laissez Faire Books had its own book publishing arm: Fox & Wilkes Books, named after two eighteenth-century British classical liberals, Charles James Fox and John Wilkes.

Paper doll

Book publishing companies that followed in the production of paper dolls or cut-outs were Lowe, Whitman, Saalfield and Merrill among others.

Per Meland

Norwegian book publishing company owned by polar explorer Erling Kagge.

Raymond J. Smith

Raymond Joseph Smith (1930–2008) was for more than thirty years the editor of Ontario Review, a literary magazine, and the Ontario Review Press, a literary book publisher, and for more than 45 years the husband of writer Joyce Carol Oates.

Shubhada Gogate

It was really lucky for her that she got married to Sharad Gogate in 1966, who was in the book-selling field and then got into book publishing.

Valentina Tăzlăuanu

Worked for Radio Moldova, as Senior Editor at the Committee for Book Publishing, as Chief of Arts Department at Literatura şi Arta magazine (1977–1990), Deputy Minister of Culture (1997–2000).