Chronicle Books

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Chronicle Books
Jonathan Ball Publishers (South Africa)
Abrams & Chronicle Books (UK)[2]
Publication typesBooks, calendars
ImprintsChronicle Prism

Chronicle Chroma

Handprint Books
Official websitewww.chroniclebooks.com

Chronicle Books is a San Francisco–based American publisher of books for adults and children.

History

The company was established in 1967 by Phelps Dewey, an executive with Chronicle Publishing Company, then-publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.[3] In 1999 it was bought by Nion McEvoy, great-grandson of M. H. de Young, founder of the Chronicle, from other family members who were selling off the company's assets.[3] At the time Chronicle Books had a staff of 130 and published 300 books per year, with a catalog of more than 1,000 books.

In 2000, McEvoy set up the McEvoy Group as a holding company.[4] In 2008, Chronicle acquired Handprint Books.[5]

Publications

Chronicle Books publishes books in subjects such as architecture, art, culture, interior design, cooking, children's books, gardening, pop culture, fiction, food, travel, and photography.[3]

It has published a number of New York Times Best Sellers; the Griffin and Sabine series by Nick Bantock, Me Without You by Lisa Swerling and Ralph Lazar, Duck! Rabbit! by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Olive, the Other Reindeer by Vivian Walsh.

Other best sellers have included

Ivy and Bean by Annie Barrows, All My Friends Are Dead, and Papa, Do You Love Me and Golden Kite Award winner Mama, Do You Love Me by Barbara M. Joosse. In March 2006 the company published Between the Bridge and the River, a novel by Craig Ferguson
.

Chronicle Books has published at least 25 books in

.

The company also sells

AT&T Park
.

In 2017 and 2018, Chronicle published Star Trek Cats and Star Trek: The Next Generation Cats by Jey Parks.

McEvoy Group

In addition to Chronicle Books, McEvoy Group also owns:

In 2006 the McEvoy Group purchased

7x7 magazine and California Home+Design.[4]
McEvoy sold off the magazines by 2014.

See also

References

  1. ^ Hachette – Our Clients
  2. ^ "International Accounts". Retrieved February 12, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Fost, Dan (November 16, 1999). "Chron Books Remains All In the Family". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  4. ^ a b Raine, George (March 1, 2006). "S.F. group buys 20-year-old rock music magazine Spin / Nion McEvoy leads company created for the acquisition". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved June 6, 2013.
  5. ^ "Handprint to Become Chronicle Imprint". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved June 23, 2020.
  6. ^ "McEvoy Group Acquires GMG Publishing Corp". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved November 11, 2020.
  7. ^ "McEvoy Group Buys I See Me!". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved November 11, 2020.

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