Browse by publisher
141 publishers and imprints, as the archived publisher page listed them in August 2003.
The list is a good map of the romance market just before e-books arrived. The big New York houses are there, Avon, Bantam, Berkley, Dell, Pocket, Warner, each split into its romance imprints. So are the Christian publishers, Bethany House, Steeple Hill, Tyndale's HeartQuest, Zondervan, and the small presses that served readers the majors ignored, Genesis Press, ImaJinn, Hard Shell Word Factory, Red Sage. Harlequin and Silhouette take up 21 lines on their own, because readers picked category romance by line, not by publisher. Our article on category lines explains what each of those names promised.
most frequent in the restored booklists
Counting only the author booklists we were able to restore, these are the publisher names that come up most often. It is a small sample weighted toward the authors the crawler happened to save, so treat it as colour, not statistics.
| Publisher as listed | Titles in restored booklists |
|---|---|
| Harlequin Historical | 198 |
| Zebra | 103 |
| Silhouette Special Edition | 82 |
| Silhouette | 75 |
| Harlequin HQN Books | 63 |
| Berkley Jove | 62 |
| Mills & Boon | 62 |
| Silhouette Intimate Moments | 60 |
| Steeple Hill Love Inspired | 59 |
| Leisure Books | 57 |
| Avon Books | 51 |
| Penguin Group | 51 |
the full list, A to Z
17th Street Press
Ace Books · Amereon Ltd · Arabesque Pinnacle Books · Atria · Avalon Books · Avid Press · Avon Books · Avon Historical Romance · Avon True Romance
Baker Book House · Ballad · Ballantine Books · Ballantine Ivy Books · Bantam - Laurel Leaf · Bantam Books · Bantam Books - Love Stories · Bantam Books Sweet Dreams · Bantam, Loveswept · Barbour Publishing · Barron's · BelleBooks · Berkley Diamond · Berkley Publishing · Berkley Sensation · BET Books · Bethany House · Bouquet · Brava · Brilliance AudioBooks · Broadman & Holman
Chariot Victor · Crossings Book Club · Crown Publishing · Crown Shaye Areheart Books
Del Rey · Delacorte Books for Young Readers · Delacorte Press · Dell Historical Romance · Dell Publishing · Dorchester Publishing · Doubleday · Dunne · Dutton
Fanfare · Fawcett Crest · Five Star Publishing · Fleming H Revell Co
G.P. Putnam's Sons · Genesis Press · Granite Publishing & Distribution
Harcourt, Brace · Hard Shell Word Factory · Harlequin · Harlequin American Romance · Harlequin Blaze · Harlequin Duets · Harlequin Historical · Harlequin Intrigue · Harlequin Love and Laughter · Harlequin Medical Romance · Harlequin Presents · Harlequin Romance · Harlequin Special Releases · Harlequin Superromance · Harlequin Temptation · Harper Mass Market Paperbacks · Harper Monogram · Harper Torch · HarperCollins Mass Market · HarperCollins Trophy · Harvest House · Hawk Publishing Group
ImaJinn Books · Infinity Publishing · Island
Jove Publishing
Kensington Publishing Corp.
Leisure Books · LionHearted Publishing · Literary Guild/Doubleday Book Club · Little Brown & Company · Love Spell
MacFadden · Macmillan Publishing Company · Mills & Boon · MIRA Books · Multnomah Publishing
NAL / New American Library
Onyx · Oxford University Press
Palisades Publishers · Penguin/Putnam · Pinnacle · Plume · Pocket Books · Pocket Star Books · Popular Library · Precious Gems · Pulse/Simon Pulse
Rainbow Books · Random House · Red Dress Ink · Red Sage Publishing · Revell Publishing · ROC
Severn House · Signet · Silhouette Books · Silhouette Desire · Silhouette Intimate Moments · Silhouette Romance · Silhouette Shadows · Silhouette Special Edition · Silhouette Special Releases · Silhouette Time Twist · Simon & Schuster · Skylark · Sonnet Books · St. Martin's Press · Steeple Hill
Thorndike Press · Topaz · Tor/Forge · Treble Heart Books · Tyndale House HeartQuest · Tyndale House Publishers
Ulverscroft Large Print Books
Viking Press
W Publishing Group · Walker & Co · Warner Books · Warner Forever · WaterBrook Press · William Morrow Company
Zebra Books · Zebra Heartfire · Zebra Historical Romance · Zebra Regency · Zebra Romantic Suspense · Zondervan
Questions readers ask
What does this list show?
The publishers and imprints that books in the database were filed under, as listed on the archived publishers page in 2003.
Why are Harlequin and Silhouette listed so many times?
Each category line, such as Harlequin Intrigue or Silhouette Desire, was filed separately, because readers chose books by line. The line told you the length, the heat level and the tone.
Do these imprints still exist?
Many do not. Silhouette's lines were folded into Harlequin in 2011, and several smaller presses in the list closed. The list is a picture of the market around 2003.