Ten Speed Press Explained

Parent:Crown Publishing Group (Random House)
Founded:1971
Founder:Phil Wood (publisher)[1] [2] [3] [4]
Country:United States
Publications:Books
Imprints:Lorena Jones, 4 Color, Watson-Guptill

Ten Speed Press is a publishing house founded in Berkeley, California, in 1971 by Phil Wood.[5] It was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division.

History

Wood worked with Barnes & Noble in 1962, Penguin Books in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press.[6] Wood died of cancer in December 2010.[7]

Ten Speed's first book was Anybody’s Bike Book,[8] [9] which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies.[9] Ten Speed's all-time best-seller is What Color is Your Parachute? A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers by Richard N. Bolles (1972). It has been reissued in new editions and, as of 2009, has sold more than ten million copies, translated into 20 languages.[10]

Ten Speed has published numerous other non-fiction titles, including Moosewood Cookbook, White Trash Cooking, Why Cats Paint, The Bread Baker's Apprentice, Vegetable Literacy, Yotam Ottolenghi's Jerusalem, Franklin Barbecue, and Marie Kondo's The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014). The books are usually colorfully designed. They are sometimes published in odd shapes to match their whimsical subjects. Ten Speed Press publishes 150 books a year under all of its imprints.[11]

In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts, (Millbrae, CA)[12] "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters",[6] from Gary Kurtz,[13] a Star Wars producer.[14] [15] [16] In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing.[14]

In February 2009, Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House and is now part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Before the takeover, it published under its four imprints, Ten Speed Press, Celestial Arts, Crossing Press, and Tricycle Press, more than 100 new hardcovers and trade paperbacks annually and had a backlist of more than 1,000 active titles.[17]

Watson-Guptill became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group.[18]

Tricycle Press

Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which published the Amelia's notebooks series,[19] among others. Tricycle also published Who's in a Family? in 1997 and King & King in 2002,[20] books that addressed different types of families, including those headed by gay parents. The imprint ceased publishing new books in 2011.[21] [22]

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Notes and References

  1. News: In memoriam: Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press . 31 July 2022 . Berkeleyside . 30 June 2011.
  2. News: Fisher . Lawrence M. . Big Books from Small Houses . 31 July 2022 . The New York Times . 23 March 1986.
  3. News: A Way With Weird : Ten Speed Press Founder Phil Wood Has Made a Small Fortune Publishing Books No One Could Imagine in Print . 31 July 2022 . . 8 December 1988.
  4. News: Lagos . Marisa . Phil Wood, founder of Ten Speed Press, dies at 72 . 31 July 2022 . . 20 December 2010.
  5. http://tenspeed.crownpublishing.com/about/ About Ten Speed Press
  6. News: Brown . Steven E. F. . Full speed ahead . 31 July 2022 . . . 26 January 2001 . https://web.archive.org/web/20021022234246/https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2001/01/29/smallb1.html . 22 October 2002 . But when they turned down a book he thought would sell, he published it on his own and watched it hit sales of 1,000 copies a day. Because the book was "Anybody's Bike Book," he called his new company Ten Speed Press..
  7. Web site: A Tribute to Phil Wood. 2010-12-14. Ten Speed Press. https://web.archive.org/web/20101218222133/http://ten-speed.crownpublishing.com/2010/12/14/a-tribute-to-phil-wood/. 2010-12-18. dead.
  8. Book: Cuthbertson . Tom . Anybody's Bike Book: An Original Manual of Bicycle Repairs . 1971 . Ten Speed Press . 978-0-913668-00-9 . en.
  9. Book: Cuthbertson . Tom . Anybody's Bike Book . 1998 . Ten Speed Press . 978-0-89815-996-7 . en . Tom Cuthbertson was Ten Speed Press's first author, and his friendly bicycle repair manual not only inspired the name of our company, it made bicycle repair accessible for the casual and serious cyclist. As the technology of bicycles has evolved, so has his classic book..
  10. http://www.randomhouse.com/book/197911/what-color-is-your-parachute-2009-by-richard-n-bolles/9781580089302/ What color is your parachute
  11. Margolin . Malcolm . Malcolm Margolin . Berkeley Publishing in the 1970s . Sisyphus . 7 October 2017 . 31 July 2022.
  12. News: Walters . Ray . PAPERBACK TALK . 31 July 2022 . The New York Times . 21 January 1979.
  13. [<!-- https://archive.org/details/Starship_35_1979-Summer_was_Algol_madmaxau -->https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/FZ/STA_1979_2.pdf Star Wars money buys Celestial Arts ]. Starship #35 . 31 July 2022 . Summer 1979 . 48 . Meredith Kurtz....
  14. Web site: Crown Publishing Group . 2010-04-02 . About Ten Speed Press & Tricycle Press.
  15. Web site: From the Vault: An interview with Gary Kurtz. Fred Entertainment. Plaume. Ken. 7 November 2011.
  16. Book: Barks, Carl . Summer, Edward . Walt Disney Productions . Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck : His Life & Times . 1981 . Celestial Arts. 978-0-89087-290-1.
  17. Web site: Random House . 2010-04-02 . Random House, Inc. Acquires Ten Speed Press For The Crown Publishing Group.
  18. Web site: Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft. PublishersWeekly.com. 2018-11-22.
  19. News: Berry . Michael . Berkeley author Marissa Moss says goodby to Amelia, a character that has delighted readers for 20 years . 16 March 2024 . Berkeleyside . 28 May 2015.
  20. Web site: LGBTQIA+ Resources for Children: A Bibliography . American Library Association . 16 March 2024.
  21. News: Rosen . Judith . Random House to Shutter Tricycle Press . 16 March 2024 . Publisher's Weekly . 17 November 2010.
  22. News: Yin . Maryann . Random House Will Shutter Tricycle Press . 16 March 2024 . GalleyCat . 18 November 2010.

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