Doubleday
Sign in to saveAlso known as Doubleday, Page & Company, Doubleday & McClure, The Doubleday Publishing Group, Doubleday, Doran & Company, Doubleday & McClure Company
American publishing company
Key facts
- Parent company
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group ( Penguin Random House )
- Status
- Imprint
- Founded
- 1897 ; 129 years ago ( 1897 )
- Founders
- Frank Nelson Doubleday S. S. McClure
- Country of origin
- United States
- Headquarters location
- 1745 Broadway , New York City , U.S.
- Publication types
- Commercial fiction, literary fiction, and serious nonfiction books
- Official website
- knopfdoubleday .com /imprint /doubleday /
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Encyclopedic overview
Doubleday is an American publishing company. It was founded as the Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897. By 1947, it was the largest book publisher in the United States. It published the work of mostly U.S. authors under a number of imprints and distributed them through its own stores.
In 2009, Doubleday merged with Knopf Publishing Group to form the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, which, as of 2018, is part of Penguin Random House.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Doubleday” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.