Crown Publishing Group

Outlet Book Company The company was founded in 1933 as the Outlet Book Company by Nat Wartels and Bob Simon. Crown acquired bankrupt publishers such as Covici-Friede, Henkle-Yewdale, and Robert M. McBride in the 1940s. Other publishers acquired by Crown include Arcadia House; Howell, Soskin; and Julian Press. Clarkson Potter became affiliated with Crown in 1963. Under the direction of Wartels, occupying of space. Random House received the space when it acquired the company. In 1990 Random House signaled intentions to sublease the space. Random House The Outlet Book Company's Crown Books remained an independent company until 1988 Doubleday Religion was replaced with the Catholic imprint Image in 2011. In 2018, Crown was combined with the main Random House Publishing Group. ==Imprints==

Following the 2018 reorganization, the imprints that constitute Crown Publishing continued to be tied together into three imprint groups within Random House. The "trade" group includes the imprints Crown, Crown Archetype, Broadway Books, Hogarth, Three Rivers Press, and Tim Duggan Books. An illustrated and prescriptive nonfiction group comprises Clarkson Potter, Harmony Books, Rodale Books, and Ten Speed Press (which includes sub-imprints Lorena Jones Books and Watson-Guptill). A third group collects the business, conservative politics, and Christianity imprints Currency (formerly Doubleday/Crown Business), Crown Forum, Convergent, Image (formerly Doubleday Religion), Multnomah, and WaterBrook. Former imprints of the Crown Publishing Group included Amphoto Books, Bell Tower Press, Orion Books (unconnected to Orion Publishing), Shaye Areheart, and some related subsidiaries like Gramercy Publishing Company. These have either been discontinued or transferred to other Random House units. ==References==