Perseus Books Group was an American

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company founded in 1996 by investor Frank Pearl. Perseus acquired the trade publishing division of Addison-Wesley (including the Merloyd Lawrence imprint) in 1997. It was named Publisher of the Year in 2007 by '' Publishers Weekly'' magazine for its role in taking on publishers formerly distributed by Publishers Group West and acquiring Avalon Publishing Group. After the death of Frank Pearl, Perseus was sold to Centre Lane Partners in 2015, a private equity firm. In April 2016, its name and publishing business was acquired by Hachette Book Group and its distribution business by Ingram Content Group. In January 2007, the Perseus Books Group purchased Avalon Publishing Group, the parent company of Carroll & Graf and Thunder's Mouth Press; the purchaser folded both imprints and stopped publishing books under those names in May 2007. In December 2018, Hachette Books became an imprint of Perseus Books Group. Concurrently,

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and Da Capo's Lifelong became part of Hachette.

Imprints

The Perseus Books Group currently has the following imprints: *Avalon Travel ** Moon Publications ** Rick Steves (formerly John Muir Publications) *

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**Basic Civitas **Seal Press *

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*Hachette Books *

Running Press Running Press is an American publishing company and member of the Perseus Books Group. The publisher's offices are located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with many of the corporate functions taking place in Perseus' New York City headquarters. I ...

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** Nation Books

Former imprints

Before Avalon Publishing Group was integrated into the Perseus Books Group, it published on 14 imprint presses. In 2007, some of these imprints were integrated into the Perseus Books Group, while others folded or were sold to other companies. Perseus also sold one of their imprints in the restructuring process.

Avalon Publishing Group

*Axoplasm * Black Square Editions *Blue Moon Books *

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— acquired in 1998, folded in 2007 * Four Walls Eight Windows — absorbed into Thunder's Mouth Press in 2004 * Marlowe & Company — absorbed into the DaCapo imprint *No Exit Press *

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*Shoemaker & Hoard Publishers — sold to Counterpoint LLC *Thunder's Mouth Press — folded in 2007

Perseus Books Group

* Counterpoint Press — sold to Counterpoint LLC *Vanguard Press started in 2007, closed in 2012 *

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- closed in 2017 * Westview - sold to Taylor & Francis and absorbed into Routledge

Distribution

Perseus previously owned separate book distribution companies. *Publishers Group West (PGW), founded in 1976, based in Berkeley, California. *Consortium Book Sales and Distribution, founded in 1985, based in St. Paul, Minnesota. *Perseus Distribution, founded in 1999, based in New York City. *Legato Publishers Group, founded in 2013, based in Chicago.

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