In the publishing industry, an imprint is a brand name under which a work is published. One single publishing company may have multiple imprints; the different imprints are used by the publisher to market the work to different demographic consumer segments.

Examples of imprints

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Below are a few examples of imprints, sorted by publishing company in alphabetical order, showing the diversity of imprints and how widely they are used in the publishing industry. This list is intended to show examples, not be a comprehensive list, so no more than a few imprints per publishing house are given. Notice that it is possible for imprints to be organized under a publisher that is in turn an imprint of an even larger publishing house.

• Dark Horse Comics
  • DH Press

• Devil's Due Publishing
  • Chaos! Comics

• DC Comics
  • Vertigo
  • Wildstorm
    • CMX
  • Tangent
  • All Star

• HarperCollins
  • Avon Books
  • Collins
  • Ecco Press
  • Harper & Row
  • Regan Books
  • William Morrow & Company
  • Zondervan

• Hyperion Books
  • ABC Daytime Press
  • ESPN Books
  • Miramax Books

• Llewellyn Worldwide
  • Midnight Ink
  • Flux

• Macmillan Publishers
  • Bedford
  • Farrar, Straus & Giroux
  • Pan Books
  • St. Martins Press
  • Tor Books
    • Forge
    • Orb

• Marvel Comics
  • Marvel Knights
  • Marvel Next
  • Marvel Ultimate
  • MAX
  • Icon
  • Epic
    • Shadowline

• Random House
  • Ballantine Books
  • Bantam
    • Skylark
    • Spectra
  • Chatto and Windus
  • Doubleday
  • Hutchinson
  • Knopf
  • Vintage
  • Anchor
  • Clarkson Potter

• Simon & Schuster
  • Pocket Books
  • Scribner
  • The Free Press

• St. Martin's Press
  • St. Martin's Griffin
  • St. Martin's Minotaur
  • Picador USA
  • Thomas Dunne Books
  • Truman Talley Books

• Tokyopop
  • Manga Novels

• Wharton School
  • Wharton School Publishing

See also

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Book publishing

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