Publisher

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

Major publishing companies include

• Time Warner, including subsidiaries Warner Books and Little, Brown and Company
• ASCII
• Baen Books
• Carlin America, major independent music publisher
• Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Hachette Filipacchi Media
• Harlequin Mills & Boon
• Harper Collins, including William Morrow and Avon
• Hearst Corporation
• Henry Holt
• Kodansha, notable for manga
• Longman
• McGraw-Hill
• Penguin Group (USA), imprints include Riverhead, Berkley Books, Viking.
• Random House, imprints Bantam/Doubleday/Dell, Delacorte, Delta, Alfred A. Knopf
• Reed Elsevier, a major publisher of scientific literature
• Rodale Press
• Scholastic Press
• Simon & Schuster, a division of Viacom, including Scribner
• Shogakukan, notable for manga
• Shueisha, notable for manga
• St. Martin's Press
• Thames & Hudson
• W. H. Freeman and Company