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ROMANCE PUBLISHERS
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PUBLISHERS are the companies that employ editors, produce books, have books printed, arrange to distribute books, market books, and ultimately ensure that the works of your favorite writers end up in your hands. For other key definitions in the romance industry, see: Romance Definitions. Collectively, publishers in the North American market (USA plus Canada) published 2,523 Romance book titles in 1999 (originals plus reprints); 2,289 titles in 2000; and 2,143 titles in 2001. I'll add the numbers for 2002 and 2003 when I confirm them. Romance Writers of America, Inc., is the primary source of the data on this web page. Not all publishers are created equal. Romance Writers of America, for instance, focusses on those publishers whose books and authors are eligible for RITA Awards. "A RITA-eligible publisher is defined as a non-subsidy, non-vanity publisher that has released books on a regular basis via national distribution for a minimum of one year and has sold a minimum of 1,500 hardcover/trade paperback copies or 5,000 copies of any other format of a single fiction book or a novella or collection of novellas in book form." The 11 major publishing houses and their imprints [with number of titles released in 2000/2001] include:Additionally, these 3 medium-sized publishing houses each released between 1 and 9 Romance titles in 2001:
- Bertlesmann: 139/107: Ballantine, Bantam, Dell, Delacorte, Doubleday, Fawcett, Ivy, Westerbrook
- BET: 59/60: BET, Arabesque
- Bethany: 10/21
- Dorchester: 116/111: Leisure, Lovespell
- Kensington: 274/204: Kensington, Pinnacle, Bouquet, Brava, Precious Gems, Zebra
- Pearson: 161/138: Berkley, NAL, Dutton, Jove, Onyx, Putnam, Signet, Topaz, Viking
- Pocket: 57/56: Pocket, Sonnet
- Questar Multnomah: Not Applicable/13
- St.Martins: 30/54
- Torstar: 982/1067: Harlequin, Mills & Boon, MIRA, Red Dress, Silhouette, Steeple Hill
- Warner: 15/25
As of August 2003, these publishers [number of Romance releases in 2000/ number of Romance releases in 2001] and their imprints are RITA-Eligible:
- GenesisPress/Indigo
- Tor/Forge
- FiveStar
{to be done}: * add number of releases in 2000,2002,2003 * indicate membership in groups
- Avalon Books: 36/33
- Avon Books: combined with HarperCollins 108/100
(Avon and Harper merged in 2000)- Baker Book House
- Ballantine Books
- Bantam Books
- Barbour Publishing
- BelleBooks
- Berkley
- BET Books
- Bethany House
- Brilliance AudioBooks
- Broadman & Holman
- Chariot Victor
- Crossings Book Club
- Dell
- Delacorte
- Dorchester Publishing
- Doubleday
- Dutton
- Fawcett
- Five Star Publishing
- Genesis Press
- G.P. Putnam’s Sons
- Granite Publishing & Distribution, L.L.C.
- Harlequin Books
- Harper
- HarperCollins Children's Books/Avon
- Harvest House
- Hawk Publishing Group
- HeartQuest
- ImaJinn Books
- Jove
- Kensington Publishing Corp.
- Leisure
- Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club
- Macmillan
- Mills & Boon LTD
- MIRA Books
- Multnomah Publishing Inc.
- NAL [New American Library]
- Onyx
- Palisades Publishers
- Penguin/Putnam
- Pocket Books
- Rainbow Books, Inc.
- Red Sage Publishing, Inc.
- Revell Publishing
- Severn House
- Signet
- Silhouette Books
- St. Martin’s Press
- Simon & Schuster
- Steeple Hill
- Thorndike Press
- Topaz
- Tor/Forge
- Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
- Viking
- W Publishing Group
- Warner Books
- WaterBrook Press
- Zebra
- Zondervan
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