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Da Capo Press, is an American publishing company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It
was founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of
Plenum Publishers. As of 2009 it had additional offices in offices
in New York
City, Philadelphia and Emeryville, California. Da Capo
Press had net sales of over $2.5 million in 2008.[1]
Da Capo Press became a general trade publisher in the mid-1970s.
It was sold to the Perseus Books Group in 1999 after
Plenum was sold to Wolters Kluwer. In the last decade, its
production has consisted of mostly nonfiction titles, both
hardcover and paperback, focusing on history, music, the performing
arts, sports, and popular culture. In 2003, Lifelong
Books was founded as a health and wellness imprint of Da
Capo Press. Lifelong Books focuses on health topics such as
pregnancy, parenting, fitness, and personal relationships. When
Marlowe & Company became part of the imprint in 2007,
Lifelong’s range was expanded to include the New Glucose Revolution
series and numerous diabetes titles, as well as books on healthful
cooking, psychology, personal growth, and sexuality.
In 2009 they placed the science portion of the book Jetpack
Dreams on the web for free.[2]
Notes
- ^
Global Duns Market Identifiers, April 28, 2009, Dun &
Bradstreet, Inc.
- ^
Staff (13 January 2009) "Jetpack Book Leaves Out
Science Part" Gawker (a Newstex publication)
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