The Big 5 Trade Book Publishers in the U.S

The Big 5 Trade Book Publishers in the U.SThe Big 5 Trade Book Publishers in the U.SThe Big 5 is a nickname for the majortrade book publishing companiesin the United States.Getting published by one of the Big 5 book publishers is the goal of many authors, asbeing published by a major publishing houseis perceived tohave some advantagesover smaller presses or self- publishing, as well as offering higher quality and status. Formerly known as The Big 6 (until Random House and Penguin officially merged in June 2013), all of the Big 5 book publishers have their main U.S. headquarters in the hub of book publishing, New York City. The Big 5 Book Publishers in the United States ... are now mostly U.S. divisions of publishers based in foreign countries. In alphabetical order, they are Hachette Book Group Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a division of the second-largest trade and educational book publisher in the world, Hachette Livre. Hachette Livre is based in France and is a subsidiary o f the French media company, Lagardre. Hachettes American roots trace back to 1837 the year that one of its publishers, Little, Brown, and Company, was founded. Time Warner acquired Little, Brown in 1968 and HBG was created when Hachette Livre acquired Time Warner Book Group in 2006. Hachettes publishing divisions include Grand Central Publishing Little, Brown and Company Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers Faith Words Center Street Orbit Yen Press Hachette Audio and Hachette Digital. Read about Forever, Hachettes Romance line, and about Forever Yours, their digital-first Romance line. 237 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10017(212) 364-1200hachettebookgroup.com HarperCollins HarperCollins Publishers is a subsidiary of News Corp, the global media company leuchtdiode by Australian businessman Rupert Murdoch. The Harper half of HarperCollins began in New York City in 1817 as J. and J. Harper, named after its founders, brothers James and John Harper. The company became Harper Brothers and, eventually, Harper Row, which NewsCorp acquired in 1987. In 1990, NewsCorp acquired the British publisher William Collins Sons and formed the worldwide book group. Some of HarperCollins publishers and imprints are HarperCollins William Morrow Avon Books Broadside Books Harper Business HarperCollins Childrens HarperTeen Ecco Books It Books Newmarket Press Harper One Harper Voyager US Harper Perennial HarperAcademic and Harper Audio. 195 BroadwayNew York, NY 10007(212) 207-7000harpercollins.com Macmillan Publishers Macmillan is a global trade publishing company, which is owned by the German Company Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, with imprints in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Australia, South Africa, and around the world. The Macmillan U.S. trade book publishers include Farrar, Straus and Giroux Henry Holt and Company Picador St. Martins Press Tor/Forge Macmillan Audio and Macmillan Childrens Publishing Group. Macmillan also publishes into th e college and academic book marketplace. In the many of the Macmillan U.S. publishers headquartered in New York Citys historic Flatiron Building. 175 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10010646-307-5151us.macmillan.com Penguin Random House Originally zwischenstaatlich publishing giants in their own rights, on July 1, 2013, Penguin, a Pearson company and Random House, owned by the German company Bertelsmann, combined their adult and childrens fiction and non-fiction print and digital trade book publishing divisions. As a result, Penguin Random House has nearly 250 imprints and publishing houses. Some of the most well-known Penguin Random House publishing groups are Random House Publishing Group, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Crown Publishing Group Penguin Group U.S. Dorling Kindersley Mass Market Paperbacks, Penguin Group U.S. Random House Childrens Books Penguin Young Readers Group, U.S. Random House Offices1745 BroadwayNew York, NY 10019(212) 782-9000 Penguin Offices375 Hudson StreetN ew York, NY 10014(212) 366-2000 Dorling Kindersley345 Hudson StreetNew York, NY 10014(646) 674-4000penguinrandomhouse.com Simon and Schuster Simon Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard L. (Dick) Simon and M. Lincoln (Max) Schuster with a bestselling crossword puzzle book. At various times in its history, it has been owned by Marshall Field, Gulf Western, and Viacom. Simon and Schuster is currently the publishing arm of the media company CBS Corporation, where its diverse offerings include books in the adult publishing, childrens publishing, audiobooks, and digital book arenas. Simon and Schusters publishing divisions and imprints include Atria, Folger Shakespeare Library, Free Press, Gallery Books, Howard Books, Pocket Books, Scribner, Simon Schuster, Threshold Editions, and Touchstone. 1230 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10020(212) 698-7000simonandschuster.com