Talk:List of publishers
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Please dab. this page when possible -- Simonides 07:00, 23 Jun 2004 (UTC)
This page doesn't currently make clear: is this intended as a list only of present-day publishers? (Really should say one way or the other) Is there any interest in tracking the history of mergers? Should that go somewhere else? I just sort of randomly hit this article; it's an area I know a lot about, but I'm not sure I understand where someone is trying to take this. -- Jmabel 06:49, Jul 21, 2004 (UTC)
- This is an introductory list of major contemporary English language literary/ humanities publishers, though anyone is welcome to go into the history of publishing and add some major names from the past, or broaden into scientific/other publishing, or specify the current parent companies (ex. Harvill is now owned by Random UK) and clarify which years the publishers were independent for, etc etc. Like with any other page, if you know how it can be improved, go ahead and improve it. -- Simonides 07:03, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Free Publishing
What the heck is Free Publishing? Does it belong here? (I suspect not.) Never heard of it; it's a redlink so I can't follow that way and, being a common phrase, almost impossible to search for online. If no one explains in the next few days, I will probably delete. -- Jmabel | Talk 19:30, May 7, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] W. H. Allen
Does anybody know the publisher "W. H. Allen"? If so please give information about him/it. 80.139.231.193 16:52, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
- Apparently a longstanding UK publisher. A quick web search easily turns up references going clear back to the 19th century. There also seem to recent imprints with this name; no idea how each was affiliated. http://www.locusmag.com/index/j9.html gives W.H. Allen Star, W.H. Allen Target, and W.H. Allen/Planet each turning out some titles in 1988, mostly in the fantasy/sf realm, and W.H. Allen turning out numerous titles in the 1980s. Our article on Virgin Books says Virgin bought out W.H. Allen. Hope that helps; I'm sure that you could get any reasonable query answered by Virgin. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:55, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Springer-Verlag
Why was Springer-Verlag dropped? Yes, I understand that it has now been merged, but it is a historically very important publisher, and someone could easily be looking for it in this list. - Jmabel | Talk 18:00, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
- Good point. I've now added the former name and also Kulwer who were also part of the merger. --Salix alba (talk) 18:53, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] What is the point of this list?
Lists are usually created when you need more than a category, information in addition to the title itself. Here, that information seems minimal. Couldn't we just keep this as a category and leave it at that? Fagstein 17:02, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
