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Perseus Books Group

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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$35.0M

Private
US

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Since joining the Perseus Books Group in 1999, Da Capo Press has been publishing quality hardcovers and paperbacks in American and world history, biography, music, especially jazz, film, art, photography, sports, humor,.and more recently, popular culture. Some of our recent bestselling highlights, include Sport's Illustrated's #1 football book of all time, H.G. Bissinger's Friday Night Lights, Alex Kershaw's The Bedford Boys: One American Town's Ultimate D-Day Sacrifice, Toby Young's How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, Pier Paul Read's The Templars, Michael Flocker's The Metrosexual Guide to Style and The Hedonism Handbook, and Kind of Blue: The Making of the Mile's Davis Masterpiece. Our backlist, includes classic titles by Albert Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gary Giddins, Walker Evans, Nat Hentoff, Groucho Marx, William Nack, W.C. Heinz, Mary Oliver, and Foster Hirsch to name just a few. ...

Number of Employees 1,100

Contact Information

387 Park Ave S 12th Fl

New York, New York 10016

www.perseusbook...

(212) 340-8100

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Book Publishers: 511130

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The Perseus Books Group Selects North Plains' TeleScope Platform For Its Digital Publishing Needs

- 2008-10-16

Perseus Leverages Advanced Digital Asset Management Tools to Create One-Stop-Shop for Independent Publishers TORONTO -- North Plains Systems, Inc., the leading provider of digital asset management DAM and video asset management VAM software solutions, announced that The Perseus Books Group, the leading provider of sales, marketing and distribution services...

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Perseus Books Group to Distribute E-books through ebrary

- 2008-09-15

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- ebrary[R], a leading provider of e-content services and technology, today announced that Perseus Books Group will make thousands of digital titles available on the ebrary platform to libraries worldwide through Perseus' new innovative Constellation service. Available under subscription and perpetual access models, the new selection will...

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Pubs breathe sighs of relief Settlement saves distribution contracts

- 2007-02-20

Bay Area independent publishers are breathing a sigh of relief now that a new publisher has taken over bankrupt Berkeley-based Publishers Group West and is promising to pay most of the money the major indie distributor owed them. New York-based Perseus Books Group on Friday won its...

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Perseus Books Group to acquire Running Press

- 2002-03-19

M2 BEST BOOKS-C2000-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD The Perseus Books Group is to acquire Running Press. Running Press is known for publishing novelty and impulse-buy titles far removed from Perseus' usual non-fiction output. The terms of the acquisition remain undisclosed. Jack McKeown, chief executive of Perseus,...

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Perseus Books Group and Questia Media; Announce an Agreement to Drive Profits in Electronic Publishing

- 2000-10-18

Business Editors FRANKFURT, Germany--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 18, 2000 The Perseus Books Group and Questia Media, Inc., announced today at the Frankfurt Book Fair an agreement to distribute over 5,000 titles from Perseus Books Group's rich backlist in the humanities, history, and social science through Questia's online digital research service....

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Boulder, Colo., Publishing Company Readies On-Demand Book Printing.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

- 2000-02-17

Feb. 17--When Frederick Praeger founded Westview Press Inc., his vision was for "books that matter" to stay in print, no matter how small the demand. While publishing hundreds of new titles every year with national printers, the publisher ran small orders of new scholarly...

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