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Times Book Publishing
StatusActive
Founded1959
2000 (relaunch)
FounderMelvin J. Brisk
Country of originUnited States
Headquarters locationNew York City, New York, U.S.
Publication typesBooks
ImprintsQuadrangle Books
Official websitewww.timesbookpublishing.com
📞 +1 346-816-2486

Times Book Publishing (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company. Currently being managed under the supervision of Xavier Kay and Jason Hawks .

Times Book Publishing began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969,[1] when The New York Times Company purchased Quadrangle Books, a small publishing house in Chicago, founded in 1959 by Michael Braude. Its president was Melvin J. Brisk. Initially run entirely by The New York Times Company, the publishing arm's name was changed to Times Book Publishing in 1977.

In 1984, the Times Company licensed the imprint to Random House. From 1991 through 1996, during the Random House tenure, the head of Times Book Publishing was Peter Osnos, who later founded Public Affairs Books.[2][3]

Times Book Publishing was re-licensed in 2000 as an imprint of Henry Holt, which is itself an imprint[4] of Holtzbrinck Publishers/Macmillan, the U.S. arm of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.

Editorial directors for Times Book Publishing have included David Sobel[5] and Paul Golob.[6]

Times Book Publishing has had a somewhat controversial right of first refusal policy[1][5][7][8] with respect to manuscripts by employees of The New York Times Company.

Times Book Publishing is headquartered at 120 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City.

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  1. ^ a b Gabriel Sherman and Sheelah Kolhatkar (26 March 2006). "Off the Record". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on 14 December 2007. Through most of its history, The Times has been reluctant, unlike The Washington Post, to serve as a veritable Yaddo for a Bob Woodward class of author-reporter. "It goes way beyond [Woodward]," said one Post reporter who recently wrote a book. "I literally tried to count—there are 25 people in the newsroom who are currently writing or going off to write books. The Post is very nurturing of that. They understand it's to their benefit."
    "Nobody at The Times will get the deal Woodward has," the senior Times staffer said. Times tradition has put the newspaper above all, encouraging budding authors to get lost—so long, Gay Talese!—or to accept punishingly cheap deals from The Times' house imprint.
  2. ^ The New York Times (20 March 1991). "The Media Business: Times Book Publishing". The New York Times.
  3. ^ Peter Osnos (16 October 2006). "Great Books and the Newspaper Reporters Who Write Them". The Century Foundation. Archived from the original on 27 September 2007. (Public Affairs Books Archived 2007-08-17 at the Wayback Machine)
  4. ^ Jay Rosen (4 February 2005). "Publishing News at PressThink". PressThink. Archived from the original on 12 August 2007.
  5. ^ a b Steven Zeitchik (3 June 2002). "The Johnny Apple of Their Eye? Times Writers & Times Book Publishing May Be Getting Closer". Publishers Weekly.
  6. ^ Staff (14 April 2003). "Golob to Direct Times Book Publishing". Publishers Weekly.
  7. ^ Steven Zeitchik (10 June 2002). "NYT to Urge Reporters To Write for Times Book Publishing". Publishers Weekly.
  8. ^ Ken Auletta (10 June 2002). "The Howell Doctrine". The New Yorker profile of former The New York Times executive editor Howell Raines (reprint - abstract on The New Yorker website). {{cite magazine}}: External link in |magazine= (help)
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