Urban Books is a
book publisher
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
specializing in
African-American
African Americans, also known as Black Americans and formerly also called Afro-Americans, are an American racial and ethnic group that consists of Americans who have total or partial ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa. ...
topics, founded and published by
Carl Weber in 2002.
Imprints
* Urban Soul (women's fiction, a joint venture with
Kensington Books
Kensington Publishing Corp. is an American, New Yorkbased publishing house founded in 1974 by Walter Zacharius (1923–2011)Grimes, William''New York Times'' (MARCH 7, 2011). and Roberta Bender Grossman (1946–1992). Kensington is known as "Am ...
)
* Urban Renaissance Books (2010)
* Urban Christian Books (2007)
References
''King Carl: Publisher, bookseller, novelist, family man and—oh, yeah—ladies' man'' Felicia Pride, ''
Publishers Weekly
''Publishers Weekly'' (''PW'') is an American weekly trade news magazine targeted at publishers, librarians, booksellers, and literary agents. Published continuously since 1872, it has carried the tagline, "The International News Magazine of ...
'', January 9, 2006
''Carl Weber Interview''at AuthorsDen, ''Conversations Magazine'', April 26, 2006
External links
Official websiteUrban ChristianQ-Boro BooksStreetfiction.org - Book Reviews and Author Interviews
{{Authority control
Small press publishing companies
Book publishing companies of the United States
Publishing companies established in 2002
2002 establishments in the United States