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'{{Infobox publisher | image = | parent = [[Bertelsmann]] | founded = 1933 | founder = Nat Wartels & Bob Simon | status = Active | distribution = Worldwide | topics = | genre = | country = United States | headquarters = | url = [http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/ www.randomhouse.com/crown] | imprints = }} The '''Crown Publishing Group''' is a [[subsidiary]] of [[Random House]], the world's largest book publisher, and publishes across several categories including fiction, non-fiction, biography, autobiography and memoir, cooking, health, business, and lifestyle. Its imprints include Crown, Crown Archetype, Crown Business, Crown Forum, [[Three Rivers Press]], Clarkson Potter, Potter Craft, Potter Style, [[Broadway Books]], Broadway Paperbacks, Doubleday Religion, WaterBrook/Multnomah, [[Harmony Books]], [[Watson-Guptill]], Amphoto Books, and [[Ten Speed Press]]. Formerly, the company also used the Bell Tower Press, Orion Books (unconnected to Orion Publishing in the United Kingdom), and related imprints, although these have now either been discontinued or transferred to other Random House units. Crown authors<ref name="Authors" /> include [[Jean Auel]], [[Max Brooks]], [[George W. Bush]], [[Deepak Chopra]], [[Ann Coulter]], [[Ina Garten]], [[Giada De Laurentiis]], [[Barack Obama]], [[Martha Stewart]], [[Rebecca Skloot]], [[Theresa Rebeck]] and many others. ==History== ===Outlet Book Company=== The company was founded in 1933 as the Outlet Book Company by Nat Wartels and Bob Simon.<ref name="Wartels" /><ref name="History" /> Outlet Book Company began by featuring overstock and [[remaindered book]]s, but soon moved into reprints of [[backlist]], out-of-print, largely non-fiction titles, then into reprints of best-selling fiction and non-fiction, and eventually into original titles. Under the direction of Wartels,<ref name="Wartels" /> Alan Mirken,<ref name="Anderson" /> Joseph Reiner<ref name="Reiner" /> and others, Crown became one of the Outlet Book Company's lead [[imprint]]s for original publishing which included such [[landmark]] fiction and non-fiction as [[Judith Krantz]]'s ''[[Princess Daisy (novel)|Princess Daisy]],'' [[Jean M. Auel]]'s ''[[The Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' and [[Alex Comfort]]'s ''[[The Joy of Sex]]'' in its early high-profile years. ===Random House=== The Outlet Book Company's Crown Books remained an independent company until 1988<ref name="Anderson" /><ref name="Profile" /> when it was purchased by [[Random House]]. ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name="Authors">{{cite web |url= http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/authors.html |title= Crown Publishing Group: Authors |work= RandomHouse.com}}</ref> <ref name="Wartels">{{cite web |url= http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n1_v17/ai_6244119 |title= Ten inducted into Publishing Hall of Fame |author= Diane Cyr |work= Folio: The Magazine for Magazine Management |date= January 1988 |quote= Nat Wartels, founder, Crown Publishers, inducted for outstanding contributions to book publishing. Wartels' philosophy has been "to perceive what people in the marketplace want, and find the right author, art director and whoever else is needed to shape the book for the audience." With that, Wartels organized the bankrupt Outlet Book Company—which he bought for a few hundred dollars during the Depression—into highly successful Crown Publishing.}}</ref> <ref name="History">{{cite web |url= http://www.randomhouse.com/valuepublishing/about_us.html |title= History |work= RandomHouse.com |quote= In 1933, inspired [[entrepreneur]]s Nat Wartels and Bob Simon founded a book company named Outlet Book Company. With the goal of providing quality books at inexpensive prices, Wartels and Simon used innovative techniques to create new markets for the books, bringing Outlet to the forefront of bargain book publishing. Outlet Book Company also introduced the concept of reprinting bestselling books to sell at bargain prices.}}</ref> <ref name="Anderson">{{cite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE5D8133CF930A25752C0A966958260 |title= Chronicle |author= Susan Heller Anderson |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= January 13, 1990 |quote= Mr. Mirken joined Crown in 1951. He developed Publishers Central Bureau, a leading mail-order book and video distributor, and the Outlet Book Company, which markets promotional books. Crown also publishes trade books, including those of the best-selling authors [[Judith Krantz]], [[Jean Auel]] and [[William Caunitz|William J. Caunitz]].}}</ref> <ref name="Reiner">{{cite web |url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D05E5DC173BF935A35753C1A965948260 |title= Joseph H. Reiner Dead at 71; Crown Publishers Executive |work= [[The New York Times]] |date= October 6, 1983 |quote= Mr. Reiner originated the Bonanza division of Outlet, which brought books back into print in quality hardcover editions. These included [[Bruce Catton]]'s ''American Heritage Picture History of the Civil War,'' the original water-color paintings by [[John James Audubon]] and works by such authors as [[Frank Lloyd Wright]] and [[P. G. Wodehouse]].}}</ref> <ref name="Profile">{{cite web |url= http://www1.iwon.com/home/careers/company_profile/0,15623,175,00.html |title= Random House: The Scoop |work= Company Profile on the [[iWon]] website}}</ref> }} ==External links== * [http://www.randomhouse.com/crown Crown Publishing Group website] {{Bertelsmann}} {{US-publish-company-stub}} [[Category:Book publishing companies of the United States]] [[Category:Random House]]'