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9.2 Terry Pratchett: Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs.




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This article is from the Terry Pratchett Bibliography FAQ, by p.pinto ppint@lspace.org with numerous contributions by others.

9.2 Terry Pratchett: Note on merkin publishers & ISBNs.

Merkin publishers of Terry's books, and of anthologies containing his stories.

0-06- HarperCollins_Publishers_, inc. (formerly Harper & Row, before that
truly fine merkin citizen, Rupert Murdoch, added them to his swagbag): in-
cluded are the imprints HarperCollins, HarperPrism, etc;

0-312- and 0-812- identify St. Martins Press (h/cvr & tp/b) and Tor Books
(mmp/b) respectively, Tor was formerly an independent publisher, though
the former prefix is now used on Tor h/cvr editions; i don't recall what
the St. Martins' isbns of Terry's early novels were, but they did not pro-
duce their own editions, iirc; rather, they re-dust-jacketed, and St. Mar-
tins-stickered, (run-ons of) Colin Smythe's editions for merkin distribn.
they were owned by Macmillan uk [not associated with Collier-Macmillan]
until february '98; all are now parts of Holtzbrinck Publishing Holdings;

0-425- and 0-441- are both identifiers of the Berkley Publishing Group,
until recently owned by Matsushita of Japan, were then sold off to the
canadadadian drinks giant, Seagram, and are currently being absorbed by
the merkin wing of Penguin, which has been renamed Putnam-Penguin, iirc.
0-441- indicates use of the Ace imprint, once an independent publisher;

0-451- indicates merkin imprints of New American Library (- originally
set up as merkin Penguin by Ian Ballantine and others; at the time they
started to publish merkin editions of Terry's books, they were owned by
Times-Mirror group of Los Angeles, and were the mother, or a sister, com-
pany of the british publisher, New English Library), Signet & Roc. They
are now imprints of Penguin, inc., or Putnam-Penguin (or whatever the
Great Penguin in darkest Harmondsworth has decided to call its merkin
publishing wing this week - possibly, "Dutton-Penguin"...). has also been
used by Penguin for Signet imprint in the uk - where, rather confusingly,
the Roc imprint borrowed from merkia uses the isbn prefix 0-140-. happily,
for booksellers, bibliographers and librarians ("ooook !"), no Signet/Roc
uk book contains aught by Terry - leastways, not *yet*...

0-5521- and 0-55214- both indicate Prima Publishing, a division of Prima
Communications, Inc. - the former, in merkia, and the latter, in the uk;

0-7867- is the prefix for books published by Carroll and Graf;

0-894- identifies Workman Publishing, while

0-9630944- identifies Dreamhaven Books, and

1-55634- publications of Steve Jackson Games.

 

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