Disney Publishing Worldwide

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Disney Publishing Worldwide is the publishing group controlled by The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Press. Through this group, Disney gets the royalties for any kind of licensed publication. The current President is R. Russell Hampton Jr..

Disney Book Group (DBG) is a leading U.S. publisher of children's books. With an extensive catalog that encompasses both in-house and licensed publishing imprints, DBG offers a variety of formats including novelty, story, reader, chapter, sound, graphic novel and coloring/activity books. Moreover, DBG publishes fiction, non-fiction, bilingual, educational and direct-to-mail titles.

DBG is part of Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), the world's largest publisher of children’s books and magazines with 441 children's magazines published and 120 million children's books sold each year. Headquartered in New York, DPW publishes books and magazines in 85 languages in 75 countries, reaching more than 100 million readers each month.