Terminology
Imprint
An imprint of a publisher is a trade name under which it publishes a work. A single publishing company may have multiple imprints, often using the different names as brands to market works to various demographic consumer segments.
Preprint
In academic publishing, a preprint is a version of a scholarly or scientific paper that precedes formal peer review and publication in a peer-reviewed scholarly or scientific journal. The preprint may be available, often as a non-typeset version available free, before or after a paper is published in a journal.
English language publishers
Penguin Random House (2013)
on July 1, 2013, from the merger of Penguin Group and Random House.
HarperCollins (1989)
Macmillan Publishers (1843)
It published two of the best-known works of Victorian era children’s literature, Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Book (1894).
Macmillan has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group with offices in 41 countries worldwide and operations in more than thirty others.
Simon & Schuster (1924)
Hachette (1826)
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Springer Science+Business Media (1842)
施普林格是最大的书籍出版者，以及第二大世界性杂志出版者
Pearson plc (1844)
培生出版集团
Elsevier (1880)
爱思唯尔
Meredith Corporation (1902)
RELX (1993)
Low-cost, affordable, printed economically
New American Library (1948)
The New American Library (also known as NAL) is an American publisher based in New York, founded in 1948. Its initial focus was affordable paperback reprints of classics and scholarly works as well as popular and pulp fiction, but it now publishes trade and hardcover titles.
NAL enjoyed great success: by 1965, its Mentor and Signet books annually sold over 50 million volumes. In 1956 NAL reported that “over 3 million copies” of the Signet Books edition of From Here to Eternity had been sold.
Wordsworth Editions (1987)
Wordsworth Editions is a British publisher known for their low-cost editions of classic literature and non-fiction works.
The firm was founded by Michael Trayler in 1987. The firm began to sell paperbacks at £1 in 1992. The firm has approximately 500 titles in print. The firm is family-owned and based in Ware, Hertfordshire, England.
Dover Thrift Edition
Dover Thrift Editions are a series of paperback books published by Dover Publications starting in the 1990s. Thrift editions are printed economically and sold to consumers at a low price such as $1.00 to $2.50 in the United States, and £1.99 to £3.50 in the United Kingdom.