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Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young Readers, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press.
- Beginnings
- Page-A-Day Calendar Introduced in 1979
- Purchase of Algonquin Books in 1988
- Brain Quest Introduced in 1992
- Artisan Imprint Founded in 1994
- Company Perspectives
- Acquisition of Storey Publishing in 2001
- Principal Competitors
- Key Dates
- Further Reading
Workman Publishing was founded in New York City by Peter Workman, a 30-year-old Yale graduate who had previously held a number of publishing-related jobs, including working in sales at Dell Publishing, as a clerk at a bookstore, as a reader at a woman's magazine, and as a copy boy at the New York Daily News. In 1968, he decided to strike out on his...
The success of its Kliban cat calendars led the company to create calendars with other themes, and in 1979 the Page-A-Day desk calendar debuted, with 365 tear-off pages, each with a different image. Workman was the first to market a whimsical calendar of this type, and it was received enthusiastically by the public. Another Workman success of this ...
In 1988, Workman bought Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Founded in 1982, Algonquin published both non-fiction and fiction titles, including well-regarded novels by Clyde Edgerton, Jill McCorkle, and Kay Gibbons. Its president, Louis P. Rubin, Jr. would remain in charge, while Workman would take on production, sales, and distribution...
In June 1992, Workman began publishing Brain Quest, a children's knowledge card game which was licensed from Editions Play Bac, a French firm which had developed it and successfully marketed it in that country as "Les Incollables" ("Little Bits Of Knowledge"). The game, which was published in different editions for each grade from first through sev...
In March 1994, Workman founded a new division called Artisan, which would publish twelve to fifteen illustrated books and calendars each year. The high-quality books, published on heavy paper, would cover such topics as cooking, sports, and gardening. The unit would be run by former Stewart, Tabori & Chang publisher Leslie Stoker. The spring of 199...
Look at our offerings and you'll see not a company running on past successes, but one that works just as hard to launch the new idea as it does to keep the proven title selling—a company that works as hard to publish the best calendar as it does to publish the best book. In February 1999, Workman hired Bruce Harris to serve as publisher and chief o...
In June 2001, Workman bought a majority stake in the trade publishing and custom publishing units of Massachusetts-based Storey Publishing, which the firm distributed. Storey had published more than 560 books, primarily how-to titles on country living. Following the September 11 terrorist attacks, Workman published a calendar which featured images ...
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1968:
1. Peter Workman begins packaging book projects for other publishers.
1972:
1. The company publishes its first book, Yoga: 28 Day Exercise Plan.
1975:
1. B. Kliban's Catis published.
Cox, Meg, "Publishing: Workman Finds Clever, Quirky Books, Marketed with Great Care, Bring Success," Wall Street Journal, July 19, 1990, p. B1. Dahlin, Robert, "Workman, Smith & Hawken Till Common Ground," Publishers Weekly, September 18, 1995, p. 36. Donahue, Dierdre, "2002 Calendar Glorifies the Flag Every Day," USA Today, October 15, 2001, p. D1...
Workman Publishing Company, Inc., is an American publisher of trade books founded by Peter Workman. The company consists of imprints Workman, Workman Children's, Workman Calendars, Artisan, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill and Algonquin Young Readers, Storey Publishing, and Timber Press.
This little company grew and grew and is today the largest independently owned trade book publisher in the United States. Peter Workman died in 2013; his wife and long-term partner in the business, Carolan Workman, now heads the company. Peter Workman, founder of Workman Publishing
Steal Like an Artist. First edition. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative is a book on coming up with creative ideas written by Austin Kleon and published in 2012 from Workman Publishing. The book has since then become a New York Times Bestseller.
- Austin Kleom
- 2012
16 de ago. de 2021 · New York-August 16, 2021. Hachette Book Group and Workman Publishing announced today that they have entered into a binding commitment for Hachette to acquire Workman, one of the largest and most respected independently owned book publishers in the US.
Workman Publishing is part of Hachette Book Group. It includes Workman , Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , Algonquin Young Readers , Artisan , Storey Publishing, and Timber Press. We are publishers of award-winning cookbooks, parenting/pregnancy guides, books on gardening, country living, and humor, as well as children’s books, gift books ...
