Omnibus Press

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Omnibus Press
Parent company
Wise Music Group
Founded1972
Headquarters locationLondon, United Kingdom
DistributionWorldwide
Publication typesBooks
Official websiteomnibuspress.com

Omnibus Press is a publisher of music-related books.[1] It publishes around 30[2] new titles a year to add to a backlist of over 300 titles currently in print.[3]

History

Omnibus Press was launched in 1972 as a general non-fiction publisher to complement the sheet music published and distributed by its parent company

Music Sales Group.[4]
Music Sales had launched a separate company called Book Sales Ltd and the earliest Book Sales catalogue, issued in the early 70s, included compilations of underground comic strips, art and photography titles and one of the earliest books on the then newly discovered art of video.

After former

BBC TV series. Over the succeeding decades Omnibus has published many biographies on most of rock musicians. These include Morrissey & Marr: The Severed Alliance by Johnny Rogan, Dear Boy: The Life of Keith Moon by Tony Fletcher, Uptight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris
and Catch A Fire: The Life of Bob Marley by Timothy White.

Among the rock and pop writers whose work has been published by Omnibus over the years are Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Peter Dogget, Patrick Humphries, David Sinclair and Everett True (UK) and Dave Marsh, Paul Williams, Nelson George, Jerry Hopkins, David Ritz and Danny Sugerman (US).

Wise Music Group has published

Colin Larkin's Encyclopedia of Popular Music (Concise Edition). At 1,600 pages, this is the abridged version of Larkin's 10-volume encyclopedia, a biographical listing of rock, pop and jazz artists.[6]

In 2006, Music Sales acquired Sanctuary Books which added a significant number of additional music books to the Omnibus list, as well as a number of sports, travel and novelty & gift books.[citation needed]

In February 2020, parent company Wise Music Group changed its name from The Music Sales Group.[7]

References

  1. ^ "graal.com". Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 8 January 2015.
  2. ^ "ingramcontent.com". Archived from the original on 8 January 2015.
  3. ^ "About Omnibus Press". omnibuspress.com. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
  4. ^ "Book Publishing – Wise Music Group". wisemusic.com.
  5. ^ "Interview: Chris Charlesworth, music journalist and publisher". Hippocampus Magazine. 1 July 2012.
  6. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195313734.001.0001/acref-9780195313734
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  7. ^ "The Music Sales Group is now Wise Music Group". WiseMusic.com.
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