Norton Publishers, officially known as W.W. Norton & Company, is the oldest and largest publishing house owned wholly by its employees. It strives to carry out the imperative of its founder to "publish books not for a single season, but for the years" in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, college textbooks, cookbooks, art books and professional books. The website for Norton publishing is www.wwnorton.com.
Founded in 1923 and based in New York City , the Norton organization is most well known for its distinguished publishing programs in both the trade and the college textbook areas. Over the decades, the Norton company has made its mark in the publishing world by publishing bestselling books and textbooks written by economists, paleontologists, physicists, Pulitzer Prize winners, sociologists, historians, and psychologists, to name a few. Norton also developed a book series that would change the teaching of literature: the Norton Anthologies. Collectively, these anthologies have sold over 20 million copies.
In the last two decades, Norton expanded its publishing program with Norton Professional Books, specializing in books on psychotherapy and, more recently, neuroscience. The Professional Books program has also moved into the fields of architecture and design. Also, Norton acquired the distinguished Vermont firm The Countryman Press and added well-respected nature, history, and outdoor recreation titles to its publishing group.
WW Norton has emerged as a prominent international player with the creation of agencies in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, and Latin America. W.W. Norton now publishes about 400 books annually in hardcover and paperback.
