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The National Academies Press (NAP) was created by the National Academies to publish the reports issued by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the Institute of Medicine, and the National Research Council, all operating under a charter granted by the Congress of the United States. The NAP publishes more than 200 books a year on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health, capturing the most authoritative views on important issues in science and health policy. The institutions represented by the NAP are unique in that they attract the nation's leading experts in every field to serve on their award-winning panels and committees. This is the right place for definitive information on everything from space science to animal nutrition.

Established in 1990 as a major alternative to the large, commercial publishers, The New Press is a not-for-profit publishing house operated editorially in the public interest. It is committed to publishing in innovative ways works of educational, cultural, and community value that, despite their intellectual merits, may be deemed insufficiently profitable by commercial publishers. Like the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio as they were originally conceived, The New Press aims to provide ideas and viewpoints under-represented in the mass media. Since publishing its first book in 1992, The New Press has been widely hailed as a leading trade publisher. Booksellers, educators, critics and readers have extensively praised the New Press's books, and they have been the recipients of numerous awards. The Press itself has been featured in publications from the New York Times, The Nation, Education Week and the Christian Science Monitor to The Guardian (UK), Toronto Globe and Mail (Canada), Le Monde (France), and many other international media. Underlying The Press's editorial program are three aims: to broaden the audience for serious intellectual work, especially by reaching out to audiences intellectually red-lined by commercial publishers; to bring out the work of traditionally underrepresented voices; and to address the problems of a society in transition, highlighting attempts at reform and innovation in a wide range of fields.

Pioneer of the paperback, Penguin was founded in 1935 by Allen Lane, who wanted to offer novels for the price of a pack of cigarettes and published such contemporary writers as Ernest Hemingway and Agatha Christie. Today Penguin has offices in fifteen countries. Where have "Lady Chatterley's Lover" and Salman Rushdie kept company? At The Penguin Group, one of the world's top book publishers (and no stranger to controversial titles). Owned by media giant Pearson, the publisher operates through such imprints as Viking (literary fiction and non-fiction), Puffin (children's books), Dorling Kindersley (reference works), and Rough Guides(travel). Penguin authors include Tom Clancy, Patricia Cornwell, and Nora Roberts.

The Perseus Books Group is an independent book publisher, made up of about 10 seperate imprints. Its six main publishing divisions include PublicAffairs (non-fiction), Running Press (fiction and non-fiction titles), Basic Books (non-fiction), Da Capo (non-fiction), Vanguard (fiction and non-fiction), and Avalon Travel (travel guides). In addition, its Basic Civitas imprint publishes work from African-American authors. The Perseus Books Group company also publishes academic books, including college textbooks from Westview Press, and its Consortium unit provides marketing and financial services to small independent publishers. Perseus was formed in 1996.

Quarto was established in London in 1976, and listed on the London Stock Exchange ten years later. Since then, Quarto has grown substantially, both organically and through selective acquisitions around the world. The Group now has 500 employees in 20 separate business units based in the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong. It produces books under a number of Quarto-owned imprints, as well as in co-edition, licensing its product to household-name publishers in every corner of the globe. Each year 600 new books for adults and children emerge from the Quarto ideas factory, to be sold in 35 countries and in 25 languages. Subjects range from Art and Craft 'How to', Graphic Design, and Home Improvement, to Cookbooks, Motoring, and Popular Reference – anything, in fact, that can be better explained with photographs, artwork, or illustrations.Quarto is also involved in related areas of display marketing (franchise retailing of books in Australia and New Zealand) and publishing services (print broking in Hong Kong and Singapore, and large format point-of-sales printing in the UK). The enduring quality of Quarto's publishing ensures that over 60% of the Group's income comes from a backlist of more than 9,000 titles, providing a stable revenue stream year after year after year. Quarto's proven business model has underpinned the Group's success and it remains poised to take advantage of new opportunities as they appear.

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