For immediate release October 27, 2008
The New Press To Be Distributed By Perseus
NEW YORK CITY –The Perseus Books Group and The New Press announced today that they have entered into a multi-year distribution agreement for sales and distribution services to be provided by Perseus Distribution. The agreement will start with spring 2009 titles.
“We have great admiration for The New Press and the crucial role it plays in bringing important and often under-represented voices to the marketplace of ideas,” said Perseus Books Group CEO and President, David Steinberger. “We are gratified that The New Press has chosen Perseus as its partner.”
“We are impressed by Perseus’ commitment to supporting the work of independent publishers like us and we look forward to working with them in the coming years,” said Ellen Mastromonaco Adler, Publisher of The New Press. “The new Constellation digital service offering is just one recent example of that commitment. We think this new partnership will be hugely beneficial to us, to our authors, and of course to our unique mission.”
Authors published by The New Press include the Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Studs Terkel, John Dower, and Alice Walker; the American Book Award-winning historian James R. Loewen; the Swedish mystery writer Henning Mankell; and Noam Chomsky, among many others. The New Press is a leading publisher of books on popular history, criminal justice reform, progressive education, economics and inequality, and media reform. Its books are internationally known and have been widely praised by booksellers, educators, critics and readers.
About the Perseus Books Group
The Perseus Books Group is an independent company committed to enabling independent publishers to reach their potential whether those publishers are Perseus-owned, joint ventures or owned by third parties. Member publishing programs include Avalon Travel, Basic Books, Basic Civitas, Da Capo Press, Da Capo Lifelong Books, Running Press, Seal Press, Vanguard Press and Westview Press, as well as partnerships with PublicAffairs and with Nation Books. Through Consortium, Perseus Distribution and Publishers Group West, the Perseus Books Group is the leading provider of sales, marketing, distribution, and digital services to independent publishers. For more information, visit our websites at www.perseusbooks.com, www.perseusdigital.com/constellation.
About The New Press
Established in 1990 as a major alternative to the large, commercial publishers, The New Press is a not-for-profit publishing house operated editorially in the public interest. It is committed to publishing in innovative ways works of educational, cultural, and community value that, despite their intellectual merits, are too often deemed insufficiently profitable by commercial publishers. Like the Public Broadcasting System and National Public Radio as they were originally conceived, The New Press aims to publish ideas and viewpoints that are often under-represented by the mass media. For more information, please visit www.thenewpress.com or contact New Press Publicity Director Anne Sullivan (asullivan@thenewpress.com).
