Publisher Lists
Changes – Spring 2008


UNIVERSITY PRESS ADDITIONS:

AU PRESS.
10 New Titles / year. www.aupress.ca/
Publications from Athabasca University, Canada’s Open University, will focus geographically on Canada, the North American West, and the Circumpolar North. Subject areas will include history, gender, distance education, heritage resource management, memoirs, and visual art.

COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
10 new titles/year. http://cup.columbia.edu/
Columbia University Press has joined forces with Columbia Business School to create Columbia Business School Publishing. The imprint will publish works of practical importance in finance, economics, and other areas of business scholarship.

RICE UNIVERSITY PRESS
5 new titles/year. LIST PRICING, NON-RETURNABLE. http://ricepress.rice.edu/
The newly reconstituted Rice University Press will publish in a variety of fields, with an initial focus on art history.


TRADE ADDITIONS:

ATLAS & CO.
15 new titles/year. www.wwnorton.com
Atlas & Co. will publish memoirs, books on social issues, history, and biography.

DEO PUBLISHING
20 new titles/year. www.deopublishing.com/
Deo Publishing is an independent academic publisher specializing in Biblical Studies for academic and religious communities.

EMERALD GROUP PUBLISHING LIMITED
100+ new titles/year. www.emeraldinsight.com
U.K.-based Emerald Group has acquired Elsevier’s entire Social Sciences Book Portfolio and will continue to publish in this area.

ESS ESS PUBLICATIONS
10 new titles/year. LIST PRICING. http://www.isbscatalog.com/acatalog/News.html
Ess Ess is India’s largest publisher of works on Library and Information Science.

G.W. MEDICAL PUBLISHING
15 new titles/ year. http://www.gwmedical.com/
This publisher is the leading clinical and forensic publisher for books on child abuse and sexual assault.

INFINITY SCIENCE PRESS
20 new titles/year. www.infinitysciencepress.com
Infinity Science is a new publisher focusing on works in engineering, physics, and mathematics.

LIFELONG BOOKS
15 new titles/year. www.perseusbooksgroup.com
Lifelong Books features a wide array of authors and books on pregnancy, parenting, health, fitness, relationships, and more.

MEDICAL INFORMATION SCIENCE PUBLISHING
15 new titles/year. www.igi-global.com
IGI Global’s newest imprint will focus on works related to the role of technology in biomedical and healthcare research and practice.

NATIONAL ARCHIVES
25 new titles/year. http://www.internationalpubmarket.com/Books/Features.aspx
The National Archives Publications program includes general history, military history, and genealogy.

ORBIT U.S.
40 new titles/year. www.hachettebookgroupusa.com/
Orbit is a publisher of Science Fiction and Fantasy titles.

PEGASUS BOOKS
30 new titles/year. www.wwnorton.com
Pegasus Books is a new imprint publishing fiction and non-fiction in subjects including history, philosophy, memoir/biography, literary and noir fiction.

SMITHERS RAPRA
20 new titles/year. www.polymer-books.com
Formerly Rapra Technology and now with U.S. distribution, Smithers Rapra publishes handbooks, practical guides, market reports, review reports and conference proceedings relating to the polymer sciences.

THOROGOOD PUBLISHING
20 new titles/year. http://styluspub.com/books/publishers.aspx
Thorogood Publishing offers books for business and the professions, specializing in leadership, personal development, sales, marketing , public relations, financial management, and law.

VANDEPLAS PUBLISHING
50 number of titles/year. http://vandeplaspublishing.com/store/product.php?cat=0&productid=44
Vandeplas is a publisher of law and law-related books.

VANGUARD
10 titles/year. www.perseusbooksgroup.com
Vanguard is a new imprint from the Perseus Books Group focusing on fiction and non-fiction from well established authors.

WEINSTEIN BOOKS
15 titles/year. www.hachettebookgroupusa.com
A new imprint of Bob and Harvey Weinstein (founders of Mirimax books) which will publish in high quality trade fiction and non-fiction titles.


The following distributed presses will now be handled as an independent imprint by YBP. Previous book and slip instructions have been modified to reflect these changes.

GREENWOOD WORLD PUBLISHING -- LIST PRICING
INTERPHARM/CRC -- LIST PRICING
PRAEGER SECURITY INTERNATIONAL -- LIST PRICING
ROUTLEDGE CAVENDISH

Several of the imprints distributed by UNIVERSITY PRESS OF NEW ENGLAND will now be handled under their own imprint number, although they remain distributed by UPNE. These include: BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY PRESS; DARTMOUTH COLLEGE PRESS; TUFTS UNIVERSITY PRESS; UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT PRESS; UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE PRESS.


DROPS:

ACM PRESS: Distribution change.
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL: Low book output.
ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION LONDON: No U.S. distribution.
AUSTRALIAN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY: Low output and distribution change.
BROKEN JAW PRESS: Low output.
BROOKLINE BOOKS: Low output.
BYU STUDIES: Low output and operational issues.
CLARK ATLANTA UNIVERSITY PRESS: Ceased publishing.
DELL/DELACORTE: Inactive imprint.
FOUNDATION FOR ANCIENT RESEARCH & MORMON STUDIES: Low output and operational issues.
HUGH LAUTER LEVIN: Inactive imprint, merged into Rizzoli.
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH: Low book output.
INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARS: Inactive imprint.
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITIES PRESS: Low output.
LOCUST HILL PRESS: Ceased publishing.
MADISON HOUSE: Inactive imprint.
MARCEL DEKKER: Inactive imprint.
MOSAIC PRESS: Operational issues.
NATIONAL LEAGUE FOR NURSING: Operational issues.
NOYES PUBLICATIONS: Inactive imprint.
PANDANUS: No longer publishing print books.
PHI DELTA KAPPA: has ceased publishing operations.
PIPPEN PUBLISHING: Distribution change.
SAUR/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN: Distribution change.
SHOEMAKER & HOARD: Inactive imprint, merged into Counterpoint.
SR BOOKS: Inactive imprint.
TRINITY PRESS INTERNATIONAL: Imprint inactive, merged into Continuum.
VGM: Imprint inactive, merged into McGraw-Hill.
WILEY-ACADEMY: Inactive imprint.
WINGATE PRESS: Ceased publishing.
WORLD CONSERVATION UNION: Operational issues.
WORLD TRADE PRESS: Low output.


NOTES:

ACORN PRESS is now a LIST PRICE publisher.
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING is now WILEY BLACKWELL PUBLISHING.
CHINESE UNIVERSITY PRESS is NO LONGER LIST PRICING.
CSIRO is now RETURNABLE and DOMESTIC PRICING.
HAMBLEDON & LONDON is renamed HAMBLEDON CONTINUUM.
HARVILL PRESS is renamed HARVILL SECKER.
INFORMATION AGE is now RETURNABLE.
ITDG is renamed PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING.
LIBERTY FUND is now RETURNABLE.
OWL/HENRY HOLT is renamed HOLT PAPERBACKS.
SINGAPORE UNIVERSITY PRESS is renamed NUS PRESS (NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE).
TOTEM PRESS LTD. is renamed TOTEM PRESS NZ LTD.
THOMSON LEARNING is renamed CENGAGE LEARNING.
UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND PRESS is NO LONGER LIST PRICING.
ZEBRA PRESS is now STRUICK PUBLISHERS.