Ten Speed Press
| Parent company | Crown Publishing Group (Random House) |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1970 |
| Founder | Philip Wood |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Publication types | Books |
| Official website | www.randomhouse.com/crown/tenspeed/ |
Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California in 1970. Philip Wood, founder and publisher, began his career with Barnes & Noble in 1962 and in 1965 at Penguin books. He was in charge of Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York in 1969 before founding Ten Speed Press.
Ten Speed started with Anybody’s Bike Book which is still in print and has sold nearly a million copies. Its all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles. The book, first published in 1972, and now revised annually, has sold over nine million copies, and exists in 14 languages. In addition to these two books, Ten Speed has published a number of other famous titles: Moosewood Cookbook, White Trash Cooking, Why Cats Paint, Bears' Guide to Earning Degrees by Distance Learning, Who Cut the Cheese? and Flattened Fauna. The books are usually colorfully designed and sometimes come in odd shapes to match their whimsical subjects. Ten Speed Press currently publishes 150 books a year under all of its imprints.
In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts, a New Age book publisher.[1] In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing.[1] Ten Speed Press itself was bought by Random House in February 2009 and is now part of their Crown Publishing Group division.[2]
[edit] Tricycle Press
Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which has published the controversial children's book King & King and the Amelia series with American Girl. The imprint will cease publishing new books in 2011.
[edit] References
- ^ a b "About Ten Speed Press & Tricycle Press". Crown Publishing Group. http://tenspeed.crownpublishing.com/about/. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
- ^ "Random House, Inc. Acquires Ten Speed Press For The Crown Publishing Group". Random House. http://www.randomhouse.biz/media/pdfs/TenSpeedPress.pdf. Retrieved 2010-04-02.
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