Founder Phil Wood worked with
Barnes & Noble in 1962,
Penguin Books in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press in 1971. Ten Speed's first book was Tom Cuthbertson's ''Anybody's Bike Book'', which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies. "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters," a
Star Wars producer. In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing. Ten Speed Press was bought by
Random House in February 2009 and became part of their
Crown Publishing Group division. Founder Phil Wood died of cancer in December 2010.
Watson-Guptill became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group. ==Tricycle Press==