Crossing Press
Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood. It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute?
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Crossing Press
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- 1969
- Founder
- John Gill · Elaine Goldman Gill
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- Trumansburg · Freedom
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Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood. It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute?
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A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. 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, White Trash Cooking, Why Cats Paint, The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Vegetable Literacy, Yotam Ottolenghi's Jerusalem, Franklin Barbecue, and Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (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.
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• Parent — Crown Publishing Group (Random House) • Founder — Phil Wood • Country — United States • Publications — Books • Imprints — Lorena Jones, 4 Color, Watson-Guptill
History
History
Founder Phil Wood worked with Barnes & Noble in 1962, Penguin Books in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press in 1971. Ten Speed's first book was Tom Cuthbertson's Anybody's Bike Book, which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies. In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts (Millbrae, CA), "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters," from Gary Kurtz, a Star Wars producer. In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing. By 2009, the company 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. Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Founder Phil Wood died of cancer in December 2010. Watson-Guptill became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group. In 2023, a graphic imprint called Ten Speed Graphic was launched.
Tricycle Press
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 Who's in a Family? in 1997 and King & King in 2002, books that addressed different types of families, including those headed by gay parents. The imprint ceased publishing new books in 2011.
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- 1.In memoriam: Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press. Berkeleyside. 30 June 2011.
- 2.Fisher, Lawrence M. Big Books from Small Houses. The New York Times. 23 March 1986.
- 3.A Way With Weird : Ten Speed Press Founder Phil Wood Has Made a Small Fortune Publishing Books No One Could Imagine in Print. Los Angeles Times. 8 December 1988.
- 4.Lagos, Marisa. Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press, dies at 72. SFGATE. 20 December 2010.
- 5.About Ten Speed Press
- 6.What color is your parachute
- 7.Margolin, Malcolm. Berkeley Publishing in the 1970s. Sisyphus. 7 October 2017.
- 8.Brown, Steven E. F. Full speed ahead. San Francisco Business Times. American City Business Journals. 26 January 2001.
- 9.Cuthbertson, Tom. Anybody's Bike Book: An Original Manual of Bicycle Repairs. Ten Speed Press. 1971. 978-0-913668-00-9.
- 10.Cuthbertson, Tom. Anybody's Bike Book. Ten Speed Press. 1998. 978-0-89815-996-7.
- 11.Walters, Ray. PAPERBACK TALK. The New York Times. 21 January 1979.
- 12.Star Wars money buys Celestial Arts. Starship #35. 48. Summer 1979.
- 13.Crown Publishing Group. About Ten Speed Press & Tricycle Press.
- 14.Plaume, Ken. From the Vault: An interview with Gary Kurtz. Fred Entertainment.
- 15.Celestial Arts. Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times. 1981. 978-0-89087-290-1.
- 16.Random House. Random House, Inc. Acquires Ten Speed Press For The Crown Publishing Group.
- 17.Ten Speed Press. A Tribute to Phil Wood. 2010-12-14.
- 18.Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft. Publishers Weekly.
- 19.Marjolin, Nico. Introducing Ten Speed Graphic. Penguin Random House Comics Retail. 2023-06-12.
- 20.Alverson, Brigid. Ten Speed Press Launches Graphic Novel Imprint. ICv2. 2023-05-31.
- 21.Berry, Michael. Berkeley author Marissa Moss says goodby to Amelia, a character that has delighted readers for 20 years. Berkeleyside. 28 May 2015.
- 22.LGBTQIA+ Resources for Children: A Bibliography. American Library Association.
- 23.Rosen, Judith. Random House to Shutter Tricycle Press. Publishers Weekly. 17 November 2010.
- 24.Yin, Maryann. Random House Will Shutter Tricycle Press. GalleyCat. 18 November 2010.
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