Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in

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, in 1971 by Phil Wood. It was bought by

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in February 2009 and became part of their

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division.

History

Wood worked with

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in 1962,

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in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press. Wood died of cancer in December 2010. Ten Speed's first book was ''Anybody's Bike Book'', which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies. Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is '' What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers'' by Richard N. Bolles (1972). It has been reissued in new editions and, as of 2009, has sold more than ten million copies, translated into 20 languages. Ten Speed has published numerous other non-fiction titles, including ''

Moosewood Cookbook ''The Moosewood Cookbook'' (1977) is a vegetarian cookbook by Mollie Katzen that was published by Ten Speed Press. It is a revised version of a 1974 self-published cookbook by members of the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca, New York. Histor ...

'', '' White Trash Cooking,'' ''

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,'' ''The Bread Baker's Apprentice'', ''Vegetable Literacy,''

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's ''Jerusalem'', ''

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'', and

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's ''

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'' (2014). The books are usually colorfully designed. They are sometimes published in odd shapes to match their whimsical subjects. Ten Speed Press publishes 150 books a year under all of its imprints. In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts, (

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) "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters", from

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, a ''

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'' producer. In 2002, the company acquired ''Crossing Press'', a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing. In February 2009, Ten Speed Press was bought by

and is now part of their

division. Before the takeover, it published under its four imprints, Ten Speed Press, Celestial Arts, Crossing Press, and Tricycle Press, more than 100 new hardcovers and trade paperbacks annually and had a backlist of more than 1,000 active titles.

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became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group.

Tricycle Press

Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which published the '' Amelia's notebooks'' series, among others. Tricycle also published ''

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'' in 1997 and ''

King & King ''King & King'' is a children's picture book co-authored and co-illustrated by Stern Nijland and Linda De Haan. ''King & King'' tells the story of a young prince whose mother is forcing him to find his princess. However, after meeting many prince ...

'' in 2002, books that addressed different types of families, including those headed by gay parents. The imprint ceased publishing new books in 2011.

References

External links

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