Times Books
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| founded = 1959
2000 (relaunch)
| founder = Melvin J. Brisk
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| country = United States
| headquarters = New York City, New York, U.S.
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Times Books (previously the New York Times Book Company) is a publishing imprint owned by the New York Times Company and licensed to Henry Holt and Company.
Times Books began as the New York Times Book Company in 1969, when The New York Times Company purchased Quadrangle Books, a small publishing house in Chicago, founded in 1959 by Michael Braude. Its president was Melvin J. Brisk. Initially run entirely by The New York Times Company, the publishing arm name was changed to Times Books in 1977.
In 1984, the Times Company licensed the imprint to Random House. From 1991 through 1996, during the Random House tenure, the head of Times Books was Peter Osnos, who later founded Public Affairs Books.
Times Books was re-licensed in 2000 as an imprint of Henry Holt, which is itself an imprint of Holtzbrinck Publishers/Macmillan, the U.S. arm of the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.
Editorial directors for Times Books have included David Sobel and Paul Golob.
Times Books has had a somewhat controversial right of first refusal policy with respect to manuscripts by employees of The New York Times Company.
Times Books is headquartered at 120 Broadway in Manhattan, New York City.
References
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{{cite news |url= http://www.observer.com/node/52020 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071214112719/http://www.observer.com/node/52020 |url-status= dead |archive-date= 14 December 2007 |title= Off the Record. |author= Gabriel Sherman and Sheelah Kolhatkar |work= The New York Observer |date= 26 March 2006 |quote= Through most of its history, The Times has been reluctant, unlike The Washington Post, to serve as a veritable Yaddo for a Bob Woodward class of author-reporter. "It goes way beyond [Woodward]," said one Post reporter who recently wrote a book. "I literally tried to count—there are 25 people in the newsroom who are currently writing or going off to write books. The Post is very nurturing of that. They understand it's to its benefit."
"Nobody at The Times will get the deal Woodward has," the senior Times staffer said. Times tradition has put the newspaper above all, encouraging budding authors to get lost—so long, Gay Talese!—or to accept punishingly cheap deals from The Times' house imprint. }}
{{cite news |url= https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DA163DF933A15750C0A967958260 |title= The Media Business: Times Books Publisher |author= The New York Times |work= The New York Times |date= 20 March 1991}}
{{cite news |url= http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA220662.html |title= The Johnny Apple of Their Eye? Times Writers & Times Books May Be Getting Closer. |author= Steven Zeitchik |work= Publishers Weekly |date= 3 June 2002 }}
{{cite news |url= http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA291920.html |title= Golob to Direct Times Books. |author= Staff |work= Publishers Weekly |date= 14 April 2003 }}
{{cite news |url= http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA221534.html |title= NYT to Urge Reporters To Write for Times Books. |author= Steven Zeitchik |work= Publishers Weekly |date= 10 June 2002 }}
{{cite magazine |url= http://www.kenauletta.com/howelldoctrine.html |title= The Howell Doctrine. |author= Ken Auletta |magazine= The New Yorker profile of former The New York Times executive editor Howell Raines (reprint - abstract on [http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2002/06/10/020610fa_fact_auletta The New Yorker website]) |date= 10 June 2002 |author-link= Ken Auletta }}
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080605181926/http://us.macmillan.com/Times.aspx Times Books]
- [http://us.macmillan.com/HenryHolt.aspx Henry Holt and Company]
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