Three Rivers Press is the
trade paperback imprint
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of the
Crown Publishing Group, a division of
Random House
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. It publishes original paperback titles as well as paperback reprints of books issued initially in
hardcover
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by the other Crown imprints.
History
The Crown Publishing Group launched its first paperback imprint, Crown Trade Paperbacks, in 1992. Five years later, the imprint decided to re-brand itself as Three Rivers Press, named for the
Harlem
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,
East and
Hudson rivers that border
Manhattan
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, as well as the three hardcover imprints (Crown, Harmony, and Clarkson Potter) that initially fed the list. In 2010, Three Rivers began the paperback publisher for Crown Archetype and
Harmony Books.
References
Crown restructuring complete''Dreams from My Father'': A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
External links
Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
Publishing companies established in 1992
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