Literary Publishers, Publishing, Literary Agents,

Web Publishing, Literary Agents, Book Fairs

A Web Directory



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Accent Press.
an award-winning independent publisher.
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Adobe Ebboks. PDF Ebooks
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Agents . Literary agents and service

Advice
Publishing advice for poets and writers.
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Agents, literary agents.
A web directory from Writers Webs
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Agent Research and Evaluation
Provides complete information on literary agents and their track record of sales for authors, often including dollar figures in the US, Canada and the UK.
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A P Watt, U.K.
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Association of Authors Representatives (AAR), U.S,
a not-for-profit organization of independent literary and dramatic agents.
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Authorlink
The award-winning marketplace for the publishing industry, where editors and agents buy and sell unpublished and published manuscripts and screenplays. Providing serious writers with access and exposure to the broadest range of legitimate publishing professionals.Through a brief evaluation process, the work is placed by experience level in the right category and environment to be seen online by editors and agents who do frequently browse Authorlink specifically looking for material to buy or represent.

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Curtis Agency.com/Richard Curtis Associates
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The Friday Project
Friday Books is the main publishing imprint of The Friday Project - a new breed of publishing house, launched in 2005, and specialising in turning the Internet’s best-known brands into the world’s finest books.
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John Hawkins & Associates
Representing a wide array of authors and domestic and foreign book publishing rights, audio, video, film, etc.
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Literary Agents, from Writers.Net.
A directory of agents, publishers and editors, with advice on finding the right agent and publisher.
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Literary Agents, org.
An online list of agents and publishers.
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Literary agents web directory.
The Open Directory Project
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Literary Leaps. List of agents, publishers and retailers.
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Literary Market Place
Listings of publishers, agents, trade services and international resources.A searchable database of the book publishing industry. Find publishers of a particular subject and/or type of publication.

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PFD
A leading European literary and talent agency.
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Robert E. Shepard Agency
An agency representing authors of serious non-fiction books.

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Sandra Goroff-Mailly & Associates
For Authors, Experts, Business Leaders, and Other Creative Individuals. Sandra Goroff-Mailly & Associates focuses on long term professional relationships that produce results. Chosen as one of the top hundred marketers in the U.S. by Advertising Age Magazine and profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Goroff is a highly regarded, award winning veteran publicist.
For Sandra Goroff's blog see: Sandra Goroff
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Society of Authors, U.K.
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Strachan Literary Agency
Fiction and narraitive non-fiction,
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Submit.
A DVD that guides writers through the process of submitting short prose to various markets. A DVD to assist emerging writers - in fact, all writers - in writing and publishing. Elephant Rock Productions
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Ted Weinstein Literary Management

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Warwick Associates - Publishing Consultants, Publicity Services, Literary Agents.
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Writers Digest
Advice and news for writers.
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UK literary agents
UK Literary agents, from Writer Services.
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Literaryagent.uk. UK agents, advice, critiques.
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Writers Sevices, UK.
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Association of Authors' Agents, UK
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Author.co.uk
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Author.co UK Literary Agents
Alfred A. Knopf. Borzoi Reader Online.
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American Booksellers Association
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Anvil Press Poetry,
a long-standing, UK-based poetry journal.
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Arc Publications
For over 30 years, Arc has been publishing contemporary poetry from new and established writers from the UK and abroad, specialising in the work of international poets writing in English and the work of overseas poets in translation,
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Arrowhead Press
Arrowhead Press publishes books and pamphlets of contemporary poetry.Their main aim is to provide a platform for poets to cross the difficult gap between magazine publication and first pamphlet or full collection, but this does not however preclude publication of more established authors.
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Autonomedia/Semiotext(e)

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Barque Press
Barque Press specializes in chapbooks and  has published poets from the UK, US, France and Canada.
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Black Sparrow Books
A backlist of American literary treasures.
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Book fairs

Book fairs, an international web directory from The Library of Congress, US
 
Book Expo America, Los Angeles.
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Book Pitch.com
A 24/7 literary convention and publishing portal serving writers, authors, agents, publishers and associated talent and industry professionals.
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Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
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Leipzig Book Fair
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London Book Fair
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Salon du Livre, Paris

Bookwire Publishing industry news
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Bowkerlink publisher access system.
An automated tool to update or add to their listings in Bowker’s databases. Publishers may also view and update their publisher contact information.
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Canongate
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Children's book publishers

Colossal Directory of Children's Publishers Submission Guidelines.
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Children's Book Publishers and Information on Getting Published
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Open Directory Project directory of children's publishers websites.

Cumulus Press
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E-books (Ebooks)

Adobe Ebbooks. PDF Ebooks
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Cybereditions.com
An online publisher focusing on the highest quality nonfiction  and scholarly writing. Making available out-of-print books as e-books, downloadable on the internet.
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Diffusion eBooks
PDF files for readers to download, print out and make into booklets - a simple and effective mode of publishing that bypasses typical distribution problems encountered by small presses and specialist publishers. 
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iUniverse.com
Online publishers of downloabable books. ePublishing, on-demand printing, independent publishing.
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The Friday Project
Friday Books is the main publishing imprint of The Friday Project - a new breed of publishing house, launched in 2005, and specialising in turning the Internet’s best-known brands into the world’s finest books.

Editions Grasset

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Faber and Faber
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Farrar Straus and Giroux
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Fiction, publishers of fiction.
A web directory from  The Open Directory Project.
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Fire and Water
The Harper Collins book website.
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Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany.

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Gallimard
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Google Print
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Grasset. Les Éditions Bernard Grasset
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Harper Collins
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Holtzbrinck Publishers
Educational, academic and literary publishers. Companies and imprints include: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux, Hill & Wang, North Point Press, Faber & Faber, Henry Holt, Metropolitan Books, Times Books, Owl Books, Picador, St. Martin's Press Trade, St. Martin's Griffin, Tor/Forge, and Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press.
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Independent publishers

Independent publishers. New Pages.com
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Independent Publishers Guild, U.K.
iUniverse.com
Online publishers of downloabable books. ePublishing, on-demand printing, independent publishing.

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London Book Fair
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Markets for writers

WriterFind
Marketplaces for writing and communications professionals

MacMillan
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McGraw-Hill
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MPH Online
Chinese digital books, books on demand.
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Oxford University Press

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Penguin Books
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Penguin Classics
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Peter Lang Academic Publishing Group
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Picador
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Poetry publishers

Publishers of poetry.
The Open Directory Project
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Bloodaxe Books
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Carcanet.co.uk

Publishers web directories
Publishers of fiction.
A highly comprehensive webpage index  from the Open Directory Project. Academic and Technical,  Audio, Children, Electronic, Fiction, Music, Newspapers, Nonfiction, Poetry,Women's publishers.
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Publishers of poetry.
Open Directory Project
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Publishers web directory. The Open Directory Project
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Publishers Marketplace
A website for professional publishers.
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Publishers Weekly
Reviews and news; an international source for book publishing and book selling.
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PulpBits
promotes the best authors, not on marketability and popularity, but on literary value and writing quality. Authors are encouraged to submit their work for all genres.
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Random House
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Rightscenter.com
A marketplace where agents, scouts and publishers can meet to buy and sell rights.

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Self-publishing

Lulu.com
Lulu gives you the power to publish and sell books, e-books, calendars, and more. Lulu prints and ships each book as it's bought. The buyer pays the cost, not you. Lulu only makes money if you do.
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Self-publishing web directory from The Open Directory Project.
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Publish and be Damned (PABD)
Self-publishing made fast and easy.

Small presses, alternative periodicals

Small Press Source
Dustbooks. A web directory of little mgazines and small presses.
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New Pages
Alternative periodicals.
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The Pushcart Prize
Best of the Small Presses series, published every year since 1976,  one of the most honored literary projects in America.
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Scribe Publicatuons, Australia.
Specialises in quality fiction and serious non-fiction, with a particular emphasis on politics and current affairs.
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Small Press Source
Dustbooks. A web directory of little mgazines and small presses.
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New Pages.
Alternative periodicals.
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The Small Press Centre, Suhrkamp, Germany
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Simon and Schuster
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St Martin's Press
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Troubadour Publishing, U.K. Poetry and cinema.

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University presses
American University Presses. (AAUP)
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Oxford University Press
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University of California Press
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University presses around the world. Business.com
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University of Chicago Press
Excerpts, reviews from recent UCP books.