The following Internet sites have been selected for
their value as reference sources. Although reviewed by library staff
at the time of inclusion in this list, the Palm Beach County Library
System is not responsible for their contents.
Addison Wesley &
Benjamin Cummings
Science, finance and economic textbooks, course tutorials and
web based courses for students, instructors and booksellers. |
Baen Publishing
Basically science fiction. Baen offers information on current
and forthcoming books as well as author event information.
Uncorrected proofs of upcoming books are available in the Free
Samples area. |
eHarlequin
Read, talk, shop or learn to write romances on this website.
Includes these imprints: Harlequin, MIRA, Silhouette, Spice, HQN,
Kimani Press, Steeple Hill, Red Dress Ink, Luna, Worldwide
Library. |
Elsevier
Science & Technology Books
Elsevier publishes a wide range of excellent titles within the
areas of science, technology and business using many well-known
and well-respected imprints including Academic Press,
Architectural Press, Butterworth Heinemann, Digital Press, Focal
Press, Gulf Professional Publishing, Morgan Kaufmann, and Newnes
among others ---all available on this website. |
Farrar,
Straus & Giroux
Founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus, the firm is renowned for its
international list of literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry and
children’s books. Includes these imprints: Farrar, Straus and
Giroux; North Point Press; Hill and Wang; Faber and Faber. |
Grupo Planeta
This publisher is one of the premier Spanish language publishers
in the trade book world. They feature books of the week, novels
and other categories of publishing products. |
Hachette Book Group
This site offers lots of info on new books, author interviews,
and reading group guides. Formerly Time Warner Books. Includes
these imprints: Warner Books; Little, Brown & Co.; Bulfinch
Press; Hachette Audio; Faithwords; Springboard Press; Center
Street. |
HarperCollins
Jam-packed yet organized website featuring new books,
newsletters, First Look, Author Tracker, Invite the Author, and
much more. Includes these imprints: Amistad, Avon, Avon Red,
Avon Trade, Caedmon, Collins, Collins Design, Ecco, Eos, Harper
Paperbacks, Harper Perennial, Harper Perennial Modern Classics,
HarperAudio, HarperCollins, HarperCollins e-Books,
HarperEntertainment, HarperLargePrint, HarperSanFrancisco,
HarperTorch, Morrow Cookbooks, Rayo, ReganBooks, William Morrow,
plus HarperCollins Children's Books. |
Houghton Mifflin
Co.
A selective publisher that's nine divisions run the gamut from
trade to educational texts. |
Holtzbrinck Publishers
Holtzbrinck Publishers is a group of publishing companies in the
United States held by Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck, which
is based in Stuttgart, Germany. This website has information
about all their imprints, their history and the books & services
they offer. Their US publishers include Farrar Straus and
Giroux, Henry Holt & Company, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers,
Palgrave Macmillan, Bedford/St. Martin’s, Picador, Roaring Brook
Press, St. Martin’s Press, Tor Books, and Bedford Freeman &
Worth Publishing Group. |
John
Wiley and Sons, Inc.
Founded in 1807, Wiley is a leading publisher of scientific,
technical, and medical books including training books,
scientific, technical, and medical journals, encyclopedias,
educational materials and online products. |
Kensington Books
Kensington is the last remaining independent U.S. publisher of
hardcover, trade and mass market paperback books. Previews, book
clubs, author information, and chat groups can be found at this
publisher's site--mysteries, romances, African-American, Gay &
Lesbian, and a full line of books on Poker are the specialties.
Includes these imprints: Aphrodisia, Brava, Citadel, Dafina
Books, Kensington Books, Pinnacle Books, Zebra Books |
Macmillan
Macmillan publishes textbooks for primary and secondary
education; academic, scholarly and reference books & journals;
scientific, technical and medical books & journals; and fiction
and nonfiction under the Pan Macmillan, Picador and Macmillan
Children’s Books imprints. Macmillan is also the distributor for
Von Holtzbrinck Publishing Services. |
McGraw Hill Publishing Co.
Largest pre-K through 12th grade publisher in the U.S.
McGraw-Hill's learning network gives a tour of their products
for teachers, students and parents. |
O’Reilly
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its
books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Publisher of
the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of
the first commercial website (GNN), organizer of the summit
meeting that gave the open source software movement its name,
and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make
magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect
people with the information they need. |
Penguin
Group
Visit the home of the second-largest English-language trade book
publisher in the world. Formed in 1996 as a result of the merger
between Penguin Books USA and The Putnam Berkley Group, Penguin
Group (USA) is owned by Pearson plc. Pearson is an international
media company with market-leading businesses in education,
business information, and consumer publishing. Includes these
imprints: Berkley Books, Dutton, Grosset & Dunlap, New American
Library, Penguin, Philomel, G. P. Putnam's Sons, Riverhead
Books, Viking and Frederick Warne. |
Random House
Random House, Inc. is the world's largest English-language general
trade book publisher. It is a division of Bertelsmann AG, one of the
foremost media companies in the world. Website features include new
books, author interviews, reading group discussion guides,
newsletters, catalogs and much more. Includes these imprints: Bantam
Dell; Crown; Doubleday Broadway; Fodor’s; Knopf; Random House; RH
Audio Publishing Group; Random House Children's Books; Waterbrook
Publishers (See individual imprints below.) |
Scholastic
Divided into teachers, kids and parents sections, this
award-winning educational site is an excellent resource for all
three groups. |
Simon and
Schuster--Simon Says
New releases, forthcoming books, excerpts, first chapters, a
reading club and reading guides, author interviews--a well-rounded,
interesting website. Simon & Schuster was founded in 1924 by Richard
L. (Dick) Simon and M. Lincoln (Max) Schuster. Their initial project
was a crossword puzzle book, the first ever produced, which was a
runaway bestseller. From that, the company has grown to become a
multifaceted publishing house that publishes more than 2000 titles
annually. Simon & Schuster is wholly focused on consumer publishing
and is the publishing operation of CBS corporation. Includes these
publishing groups/imprints:
Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group: Atria Books; Howard Books;
Kaplan; Pocket Books; Scribner; Simon & Schuster; Strebor; Free
Press; The Touchstone and Fireside Group
Simon & Schuster Audio: Pimsleur; Simon & Schuster Sound Ideas;
Simon & Schuster Audioworks
Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: Aladdin Paperbacks; Atheneum
Books for Young; Readers; Libros Para Niños; Little Simon®; Little
Simon Inspirations; Margaret K. McElderry Books; Simon & Schuster
Books for Young Readers; Simon Pulse; Simon Spotlight®; Simon
Spotlight Entertainment |
St. Martin's Press
At home in the Flatiron Building in New York, St. Martin's
prides itself on having the largest and broadest list of any U.S.
publisher, publishing 700 titles a year. The website features
Reading Group Gold, Read it First, author interviews, catalogs,
newsletters and more. St. Martin's is part of Holtzbrinck
Publishers. Includes these imprints: St. Martin's Press; St.
Martin's Griffin; St. Martin's Minotaur; Picador USA; Thomas Dunne
Books; Truman Talley Books |
Tyndale
House Publishers
Spiritual, religious and evangelical books including the Living
Bible and the Left Behind series. |
W. W. Norton & Company Inc.
The oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its
employees, W. W. Norton's mission is "to publish books not for a
single season, but for the years." Trade titles and college
textbooks. This web site could benefit from more graphics for a
better visual design. |
Workman
Publishing
Books, calendars, trends. Workman is a publisher that's always
around big ideas. Includes these imprints: Algonquin Books;
Artisan Books; Black Dog & Leventhal; Storey Publishing; Timber
Press; BRAIN QUEST; Page-A-Day Calendars. |
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Bantam Dell Publishing Group
One of the many Random House groups. Includes these imprints: Bantam
Dell Hardcover, Bantam Dell Mass Market, Bantam Dell Trade
Paperback, Crimeline, Delacorte, Dell, Delta, The Dial Press,
Domain, DTP, Fanfare, Island, Spectra. |
Crown Publishing
Group
One of the many Random House groups. Includes these imprints:
Bell Tower, Clarkson Potter, Crown Business, Crown Publishers,
Inc., Harmony Books, Prima Health, Shaye Areheart Books, Three
Rivers Press |
Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group
One of the many Random House groups. Includes these imprints: Broadway Books,
Harlem Moon, Currency, Doubleday,
Doubleday Image, Doubleday Religious Publishing, Main Street Books,
Morgan Road Books, Nan A. Talese |
Fodor's
A complete list of Fodor's travel guides can be found at
www.fodors.com, along with up-to-the minute trip planning
information, bargains, and advice from the most knowledgeable
travel community on the web. Founder Eugene Fodor pioneered the
concept of the modern guidebook in 1936, when he created a new
travel guide that travelers found more inspiring than the
existing collections of facts and figures other guidebooks
offered. Includes these imprints: Around the City with Kids,
Fodor's Gold Guides, Cityguides, Citypacks, Compass American
Guides, Exploring Guides, Flashmaps, Languages for Travelers,
Pocket Guides, Travel Historic America, Where to Weekend |
Knopf
Publishing Group
Founded in 1915 by Alfred A. Knopf and his wife Blanche W. Knopf,
the house of Knopf has long been one of America's foremost book
publishers—known for both the quality of its authors and for the
high level of its book design and production. In 1960 Alfred A.
Knopf became part of Random House, Inc., Knopf is one of the
country's foremost publishers of poetry, cookbooks, and the vastly
successful National Audubon Society Field Guides. Includes these
imprints: Alfred A. Knopf, Anchor Books, Everyman's Library,
Pantheon Books, Schocken Books, Vintage |
Random House
Information Group
One of the many Random House groups. Includes these imprints:
House Collectibles, Kovels', Living Language, Princeton Review,
Random House Puzzles & Games, Random House Reference |
Random
House Trade Publishing Group
One of the many Random House groups. Publishes fiction, nonfiction
and classics. Includes these imprints: Ballantine Books, Ballantine
Wellspring, David McKay, Del Rey, Fawcett, Ivy, The Modern Library,
One World/Strivers Row, Presidio Press, Random House Adult Trade,
Random House Trade Paperbacks, Reader's Circle, Villard Books,
Wellspring |
Random
House Value Publishing
A division of Random House Inc. and a full line promotional book
publisher dedicated to general interest books of high quality
and great value, across a wide range of categories. Priced for
value but designed to the highest of standards, Random House
Value Publishing books can be found on both bargain tables and
in regular category sections. Includes these imprints:
Children's Classics, Crescent Books, Derrydale, Gramercy Books,
Testament Books, Wings Books |
Random
House Audio Publishing Group
The Random House Audio Publishing Group is foremost in audio
publishing. The group's imprints publish works in conjunction with
Random House books, as well as acquiring titles from other
publishers. Random House Audio Publishing Group is a full-line audio
publisher offering titles in both abridged and unabridged formats
and on cassettes and compact discs. Includes these imprints: Bantam
Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing; Listening Library; Random House
Audio Books |
Random
House Children's Books
Random House Children’s Books is the world’s largest
English-language children's trade book publisher. Creating books
for preschool children through young adult readers, in all
formats from board books to activity books to picture books and
novels, Random House Children’s Books brings together
world-famous franchise characters, multimillion-copy series, and
top-flight, award-winning authors and illustrators. Includes
these imprints: Knopf Delacorte Dell Young Readers Group: Alfred
A. Knopf
Bantam; Crown; David Fickling Books; Delacorte Press; Doubleday;
Dragonfly Books; Laurel-Leaf Books; Schwartz & Wade Books; Wendy
Lamb Books & Yearling Books & Random House/Golden Books Young
Readers Group: Beginner Books; Disney Books for Young Readers;
First Time Books; Landmark Books; Picturebacks; Sesame Workshop;
Step into Reading; Stepping Stone Books |
Waterbrook Publishers
As a division of Random House, Inc.--the largest publisher in the
world--WaterBrook's task is to build a major presence in the
Christian Booksellers Association, competing with the top Christian
publishers in our market today. Includes these imprints: Fisherman
Bible Study Guides, Shaw Books, Waterbrook Press. |
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