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Owner and president Tim O'Reilly founded O'Reilly Media as a technical writing firm in 1978. O'Reilly Media aims to be an advocate for computer professionals. O'Reilly Media, Inc. company is known worldwide for its computer books (featuring illustrations of animals on the cover), technical conferences, and Web sites. O'Reilly publishes books and software on UNIX, Linux, Perl, Java, Oracle, Windows, and a slew of other operating systems and Internet programming languages. It also has books devoted to topics in business and culture. In addition, O'Reilly Media, Inc. company operates Web sites such as perl.com, xml.com, and OpenP2P.com.

Oxford University Press, Inc. (OUP USA) is linked to Oxford University Press in Oxford, England (OUP UK), which is a department of Oxford University and is the oldest and largest continuously operating university press in the world. The first book to be printed in Oxford—the Commentary on the Apostles’ Creed, attributed to St. Jerome, by Theodoric Rood—was printed in 1478, only two years after Caxton set up the first printing press in England, following the invention of the printing press by Johann Gutenberg in 1450. The printing industry in Oxford developed in a somewhat haphazard fashion over the following century. It consisted of a number of short-lived private businesses, some patronized by Oxford University. But in 1586, the University itself obtained a decree from the Star Chamber confirming its privilege to print books. In the same year, Oxford University lent £100—a small fortune at that time—to a local bookseller, Joseph Barnes, to set up a press. Barnes produced many books now prized by collectors, including the first books printed at Oxford in Greek (1586) and Hebrew (1596), and Captain John Smith's Map of Virginia (1612). The Great Charter, secured by Archbishop Laud from King Charles I in 1632, increased the independence and latitude of the press, entitling the University to print "all manner of books," and approximately 300 books were printed before Mr. Barnes retired in 1617. In 1633, the University first appointed Delegates to oversee this privilege. Minute books recording their deliberations date back to1668, and OUP UK as it exists today began to develop in a recognizable form from that time. To this day, the worldwide Press’s activities are overseen by Delegates. In the UK, the Delegates are appointed from the academic staff of Oxford University to "have charge of the affairs of the Press" and to govern it under the University statutes. The Delegates are actively involved in OUP UK’s publishing program, including that all books are referred to them for approval prior to publication and individual Delegates maintain an active dialogue with editors in their specialist subject areas. The operations of OUP UK are overseen by a board that includes the Vice Chancellor of the University and other University administrators, as well as a number of Delegates and officers of the Press. The University established its right to print the King James Authorized Version of the Bible in the seventeenth century. This Bible Privilege formed the basis of a successful publishing business throughout the next two centuries and was the spur of OUP’s expansion. A Bible warehouse was set up in London, which later grew into a major publisher of books with educational and cultural content aimed at the general reader. Then, OUP began to expand internationally, starting with the opening of an American office in 1896.

Panini America, formerly Donruss Playoff, publishes sports trading cards under the names Donruss, Playoff, and Score. The company makes basketball cards as the official licensed trading card publisher for the NBA; it offers NFL cards through shared rights with rival Upper Deck. (It lost its Major League Baseball license in 2006.) The second oldest US card company, Donruss was founded in 1954 by brothers Donald and Russel Weiner (the company's name is a combination of their first names -- Don and Russ). In 2009 the company was acquired by Italian firm Panini Group, a leading publisher of collectibles. Donruss was subsequently renamed Panini America. For football and basketball fans, it's all in the cards.

Panini S.p.A. (known as the Panini Group) is a major publisher and distributor of trading cards, stickers, collectibles, comic books, anime, manga, children's magazines, activity books, and animated DVDs in Europe and Latin America. The group publishes more than 4,000 titles under its Panini Comics imprint and distributes about 1 billion packs of stickers and DVDs every year through PAN Distribuzione. It offers web content through Panini Digital and Panini Interactive and publishes Japanese-style comics through Planet Manga. The group entered the US market in 2009 when it purchased Donruss Playoff and renamed it Panini America.

Peachpit Press company was founded in 1986 and is a unit of Pearson Education. It operates as part of that unit's Professional education business. Don't worry about chipping a tooth biting into titles from Peachpit Press. The book publisher specializes in topics such as graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, and general computing. Imprints include flagship Peachpit Press, as well as New Riders (instructional books), Apple Certified (designed to help master Apple products such as Final Cut Pro and GarageBand), and Adobe Press (the official source of training materials for Adobe software). Its Visual QuickStart Guides feature step-by-step instructions for topics such as HTML and Google.

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