Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG) has a knack for publishing prize winners. FSG has published Pulitzer prize winners Doug Wright (I Am My Own Wife), Jeffrey Eugenides (Middlesex), and Paul Muldoon (Moy Sand and Gravel). In addition, the firm boasts more than 20 Nobel Prize recipients and more than 20 National Book Award winners. FSG also publishes audio books, and operates imprints Drawn and Quarterly (art and literary comics), Hill and Wang (non-fiction titles), Enchanted Lion (books for children and young adults), and Faber and Faber (arts and culture-related publications). FSG was founded in 1946 by Roger W. Straus. (Straus died in 2004 at age 87.) The firm is a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings.

Feral House has been publishing innovative and celebrated non-fiction books since 1989. Movies have been made, cultural trends influenced and political crimes exposed by our small, independent press. Headquartered in Port Townsend, WA, Feral House publisher Adam Parfrey has also co-founded the new imprint, Process Media, with Jodi Wille, formerly of Dilettante Press.

Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad, former employees of textbook publisher Prentice Hall, formed Flat World Knowledge in 2007. College students who don't want to get knocked flat by the cost of textbooks should learn about Flat World Knowledge. The online publisher offers students the ability to read texts online for free at its Web site, which also offers full-color printouts and audio books for about a third of the usual cost. In addition, professors can adopt books as they are, or customize texts by pulling from other sources and their own work. Students can use the site to take and share digital notes, pose questions, and order a variety of study aids.

Fodor's helps you unleash the possibilities of travel by providing the insights and tools you need to experience the trips you want. While you're always at the helm, Fodor's offers the assurance of our expertise, the guarantee of selectivity, and the choice details that truly define a destination. It's like having a friend wherever you travel. Resources that you'll want to read as well as reference, our guide books and website offer current and discerning shopping, dining, hotel, and culture recommendations, as well as compelling features and articles that convey the essence of each destination. And we are confident that we're giving you the best information because our products are written by people who live there. We seek to hire local writers who know their destinations better than anyone else. Our worldwide team of over 700 travel writers bring you the latest, most accurate coverage, and like trusted companions, reveal local treasures and everything you need to know before you arrive. More than an online resource, Fodors.com connects you to a like-minded community of selective travelers-living, learning, and traveling on their terms. Together, our books, our website, and you make it possible for every trip to be a trip of a lifetime.

Gale®, part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform. The Gale family of publishing imprints includes such noted reference brands as Macmillan Reference USA™, Charles Scribner's Sons® and Primary Source Media™. Gale also serves the K-12 market with its U·X·L®, Greenhaven Press®, Lucent Books®, KidHaven Press and Sleeping Bear Press™ imprints. Thorndike Press®, Christian Large Print™, Wheeler Publishing™, Five Star™ and Large Print Press™ serve libraries' large print collections. Major brands include InfoTrac, Gale Virtual Reference Library — the company's eBook platform — and the unparalleled Gale Digital Collections such as Eighteenth Century Collections Online. In addition to serving the school and library communities, Gale also licenses its proprietary content for integration within Web-based information services. Nearly 100 organizations — including Looksmart, Borders, Dow Jones and Thomson Financial — presently enjoy strategic business distribution partnerships with Gale. Gale is based in Farmington Hills, Michigan, with additional offices in the U.S., and in the following international regions: Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, New Zealand and Latin America.

GIA Publications is on a spiritual high. GIA Publications company publishes hymnals and religious music books. It also produces and distributes music education materials (guides for teachers, college and professional texts, music aptitude tests) and releases music recordings and other related content on compact discs, cassettes, DVDs, and videotapes. In addition, GIA Publications company publishes the GIA Quarterly magazine for pastoral musicians, and produces events such as new music seminars. Formerly the Gregorian Institute of America, GIA also stays true to its roots, offering music, books, and other resources on Gregorian chants.

Grove/Atlantic is a small literary fiction publishing house made up of three divisions: Grove Press, Atlantic Monthly Press, and Canongate US. Additionally, Grove/Atlantic, Inc. company distributes Open City Books and Magazine. Grove/Atlantic can trace its roots back to 1917 with the founding of Atlantic Monthly Press as an imprint of Little, Brown. Atlantic Monthly published such classics as Mutiny on the Bounty and Goodbye Mr. Chips, and became independent in 1985. Grove/Atlantic, Inc. company merged with Grove Press, publisher of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and William Burroughs's Naked Lunch, to form Grove/Atlantic in 1993.

Hachette UK is the largest and one of the most diversified book publishers in the UK. The Group is made up of several publishing companies and imprints including Headline Publishing Group, Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray, Orion Publishing Group, Octopus Publishing Group, Little, Brown Book Group, Hodder Education Group, and Chambers. Hachette UK is owned by Hachette Livre, the global publishing group based in France, which is in turn a wholly owned subsidiary of Lagardère, a company that is active worldwide in the areas of communications and media (books, press, audiovisual and distribution/retailing of cultural products). Our Companies and the individual publishers within them, have long and proud histories of publishing excellence.

As the #1 producer of warm fuzzies, Hallmark Cards is the Goliath of greeting cards. The company's cards are sold under brand names such as Hallmark, Shoebox, and Ambassador and can be found in more than 41,000 US retail stores. (About 3,300 stores bear the Hallmark Gold Crown name; the majority of these stores are independently owned.) Hallmark also offers electronic greeting cards, gifts, and flowers through its website. In addition to greeting cards, the company owns crayon manufacturer Crayola (formerly Binney & Smith), a majority of cable broadcaster Crown Media, and Kansas City's Crown Center real estate development firm. Members of the founding Hall family own two-thirds of Hallmark.

Harlequin Enterprises Limited is the global leader in series romance and one of the world's leading publishers of books for women. The Toronto-based company publishes over 110 titles a month in 28 languages in 114 international markets on six continents. These books are written by over 1,100 talented authors worldwide, offering women a broad range of reading from romance to psychological thrillers to relationship novels. With 130 million books sold in 2008–half overseas and a tremendous 95% outside Canada–it is both the country's most successful publisher and one of its most international businesses. Harlequin promotes its global presence through principal offices in Toronto, New York, London, Tokyo, Milan, Sydney, Paris, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Athens, Budapest, Granges-Paccot, Warsaw, Rio de Janeiro and Mumbai. Harlequin Enterprises Limited company also has licensing agreements with businesses in another nine countries. Harlequin's worldwide level of recognition and appeal provides the publisher with the unique opportunity of promoting and selling its authors around the world, wherever and whenever women shop.Harlequin's success in 2008 confirms that Harlequin Enterprises Limited company is moving toward its stated goal of being the world's leading publisher of books for women. Harlequin titles enjoyed a total of 252 weeks on the New York Times bestseller lists in 2008, up from the 230 weeks achieved in 2007. Since its inception, Harlequin has sold approximately 5.8 billion books. Harlequin Enterprises is unique in the women's fiction market, combining highly recognizable imprints–Harlequin, Silhouette, MIRA Books, LUNA Books, HQN Books, Steeple Hill Books, Harlequin Teen, Kimani Press, Spice, Harlequin Nonfiction, Gold Eagle; a global reach, a highly successful reader service and an innovative Web site (eHarlequin.com) and forward-looking technology (eBooks, downloadable audio, mobile phone applications) that not only allows Harlequin Enterprises Limited company to move further and further into the forefront of women's fiction but continues to position Harlequin for growth. In 2009 Harlequin celebrates 60 years of providing women with pure reading pleasure. New programs and initiatives recommit Harlequin to intensifying the breadth and reach of books for women for the next 60 years.

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