A great many of the key publishers in the publishing industry are headquartered in New York City. New York City is considered the hub of the publishing world. While other areas of the country can boast publishers, such as Los Angeles and Chicago, New York publishing is still king.
The major giants of the publishing industry are based in New York City:
- Random House
- HarperCollins
- Simon & Schuster
- McGraw Hill
- Harcourt
- Dow Jones & Company
- the Penguin Group ( USA )
- Time Warner Book Group
- W.W. Norton Publishers
- Aspen Publishers
- Alfred Publishing
...and the list goes on and on.
The best way to find out who's who in NY publishing is to dive into the various publishing industry directories and look up the publisher contact information. Some excellent printed directories are:
- The Writer's Market.
- Jeff Herman's Guide to Book Editors, Publishers, and Literary Agents.
- Novel & Short Story Writer's Market.
- Google's directory of publishers
- Yahoo's directory of publishers
Also, here is a small but helpful directory of New York publishers:
