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Below is a brief description of each of these renowned audio book publishers:
BBC Audiobooks Ltd
BBC Audiobooks is the leading audio publisher in the UK. They are part of BBC Worldwide Audio & Music, which in turn is part of the commercial arm of the BBC. BBC Audiobooks was formed in 2001, with the integration of three leading audio businesses: BBC Radio Collection, BBC Cover to Cover children's titles and the Chivers Press range of audio and large print especially for libraries. BBC has its main offices in the beautiful UK city of Bath, as well as an American business, BBC Audiobooks America, based in Rhode Island USA. As well as audio, BBC also have a thriving Large Print Books business, which provides titles to UK and international libraries and a direct mail business, the Audiobook Collection.
BBC Audiobooks provide a unique world of entertainment and education, with classic drama, modern fiction, comedy and poetry audio book titles. Immerse yourself in an Agatha Christie murder mystery or Doctor Who adventure, explore the brilliance, beauty and depth of a Shakespeare play, laugh along with the comedy team of 'I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue' and enjoy the magic of BBC Audiobooks and the BBC Radio Collection.
Blackstone Audio Inc
Blackstone Audio of Ashland, Oregon was established in 1987 and is one of the largest independent audio producers in the country. The Blackstone catalog includes the hottest new titles with bestselling fiction, history, mysteries, movie tie-ins, science fiction, children's literature, classics and more, professionally read and expertly recorded by award-winning narrators.
Brilliance Audio Inc
Brilliance Audio, Inc, is currently the largest independent audio book publisher in the United States. The company, founded by its current President and Publisher R. Michael Snodgrass in 1984, began with a mission to provide a quality listening experience at an affordable price, and continues to deliver on that very same philosophy today.
Harper Collins US
Harper Collins Publishers is one of the world's leading English-language publishers with headquarters in New York. HarperCollins is a subsidiary of News Corporation. The publishing house of Mark Twain, the Brontë sisters, Thackeray, Dickens, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein, and Margaret Wise Brown, Harper Collins was founded in New York City in 1817 by the brothers James and John Harper.
In 1987, News Corporation acquired Harper & Row. The worldwide book publishing group was formed following News Corporation's 1990 acquisition of the British publisher William Collins & Sons. Founded in 1819, William Collins & Sons published a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics, expanding over the years to include legendary authors such as H. G. Wells, Agatha Christie, J. R. R. Tolkien, and C. S. Lewis. HarperCollins has publishing groups in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia/New Zealand and India.
Harper Collins UK
HarperCollins UK is part of HarperCollins Worldwide, one of the leading English-language book publishers in the world, with operations in the US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. It is a wholly-owned division of News Corporation, the media conglomerate and parent of Times Newspapers Ltd, British Sky Broadcasting and Twentieth Century Fox.
Harper Collins UK is one of the top book publishing groups in the United Kingdom. It publishes a wider range of books than any other publishing company, from cutting-edge contemporary fiction, to block-busting thrillers and fantasy, from prize-winning literature and children’s stories to enduring classics. It also publishes an impressive selection of non-fiction titles, including history, celebrity memoirs, biographies, popular science, plus mind, body and spirit, downloadable dictionaries, maps, reference titles and education and school text books.
Hachette Digital
Hachette Digital, formerly Hachette Audio, is the imprint responsible for publishing in electronic formats. The change of name from January 2008 reflects the widening nature of its digital operations. Hachette Book Group USA (HBG) was created when Hachette Livre, a French publishing company, acquired Time Warner Book Group from Time Warner in 2006.
Naxos Audio Books
Naxos Audiobooks is an award-winning audiobook label offering a wide range of abridged and unabridged digital recordings of the world's greatest literature. There are Junior Classics and numerous non-fiction titles focusing on the arts. The Naxos Audiobooks label also offers classic and contemporary plays, from the plays of William Shakespeare to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's popular and ever-loved hero Sherlock Holmes; from Sophocles, Dante, Dickens, Beckett and James Joyce to children's favorites, Naxos AudioBooks offers a selection of over 350 titles from the world's greatest literature for adults and younger listeners. Each selection is presented in the distinctive Naxos style - digitally-recorded, enhanced with classical music and entertaining sound effects, and affordably priced.
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster, Inc. is a publisher founded in New York in 1924 by Richard L. Simon and M. Lincoln ("Max") Schuster. It is the publishing operation of CBS Corporation, one of the world’s premier media companies and one of the four largest English language publishers, alongside Random House, Penguin, and HarperCollins.
Simon & Schuster, Inc. is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, providing consumers worldwide with a diverse range of quality books across a wide variety of genres and printed and digital formats. |