Transaction Publishers

Workman Publishing is a publishing company that specializes in gift books, calendars and games. The company utilizes a style of publishing that incorporates bright, appealing trade paperbacks, high standards of design and production, unexpected formats, the packaging of books with objects and conscientious pricing. The company s products are sold at many retailers, including bookstores, office supply stores, mall kiosks and varied online retailers. Famous publications from Workman include B. Kliban s Cat , Patricia Schultz s 1,000 Places to See Before You Die , Heidi Murkoff s What to Expect When You re Expecting and Jim Edgar s Bad Cat . Established in 1967, Workman Publishing has headquarters in New York.

St. Martin s Press publishes more than 700 titles per year. St. Martin s operates eight separate imprints and utilizes the resources of six unique sales divisions, ensuring maximum exposure for authors in the wide variety of markets for books today. St. Martin s imprints include St. Martin s Press, St. Martin s Minotaur, Thomas Dunne Books and Picador USA. The company publishes fiction books expressing the widest possible range of the human experience. St. Martin s is part of Holtzbrinck Publishers, a group of publishing companies held by Verlagsgruppe George Von Holtzbrinck, a family owned publishing operation based in Stuttgart, Germany. The company was founded in 1952 and is located in New York City.