Macmillan US

Farrar, Straus & Giroux, founded in 1946, is famous for its international literary range. Its authors include 21 Nobel prizewinners for literature and numerous winners of the National Book Award. Henry Holt is one of the oldest publishing houses in the United States, founded back in 1866. The main components of its range today are narrative works by American and international writers, biographies and textbooks. Palgrave Macmillan is one of the leading publishing houses for academic works in the world. The successful paperbacks of the Holtzbrinck publishing house are marketed in the USA under the name Picador. Tor Books is one of the most successful publishing houses for science fiction books in the world and has won numerous awards. Roaring Brook Press, a publishing house for books for children and young people, has been part of the US portfolio of Holtzbrinck since April 2004. St. Martin’s Press has been established for decades: the company was founded in 1952, is today is one of the seven largest publishing houses for popular publishing in the USA and is known for the extraordinary breadth of its range. Macmillan Audio became part of the Holtzbrinck publishing house for popular publishing in the USA in 2001. The most popular works of the US publishing houses for printed works are, in addition to works from other companies, supplied as audio-cassettes and CDs to a wide audience. The publishing group Bedford, Freeman & Worth, a merger of the three highly-regarded college and university publishing houses Bedford/St. Martin’s, W.H. Freeman and Worth Publishers, has become a dynamic new force in the education market in the USA.