Publisher in the United States

Publisher Definition

One who, by himself or his agent, makes a thing publicly known, one engaged in the circulation of books, pamphlets, and other papers.

Finding Publishers

You can find publishers web sites (and their online catalogs) using any good search engine.

Legal: There are four major legal publishing conglomerates: Thomson Reuters (includes West), Reed Elsivier (includes LexisNexis and Matthew Bender), Wolters Kluwer (includes Aspen and CCH) and Bloomberg (includes BNA). There are still a fair number of independents, but they are comparatively small.

If you are just looking for legal publisher Web sites, links are posted by FindLaw, CRIV and the Social Law Library. See also a list of legal Publishers in the American Legal Encyclopedia in this entry. Or just use a good search engine. You can find a printed list of legal publishers, with addresses and phone numbers, at the end of Law Books in Print (Bowker).

Unsolicited Materials: Publishers often send unsolicited materials in the hopes that you will pay for them. Federal law says that the practice of sending “unordered merchandise” is illegal and authorizes you to treat the merchandise as a gift that you can choose to keep, sell or throw away (39 U.S.C. 3009). If you do this, you might want to send a letter to the publisher. Check out the Sample Letters posted by the AALL Committee on Relations with Information Vendors (CRIV).

List of Publishers:

• ABC-CLIO (Includes Greenwood, Libraries Unlimited, Praeger) (Website of the Publisher here)American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) (Website of the Publisher here)
• A.M. Best Company (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Arbitration Association (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Bankers Association (Website of the Publisher here)
• The American Bar (Forster-Long, LLC) (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Bar Association (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Bar Foundation (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Law Institute (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Lawyer Media (ALM) (ALM Website of the Publisher here) (Law.com Website of the Publisher here)
• LawCatalog (LawCatalog.com Website of the Publisher here) (LawCatalog.com)
• American Legal Publishing Corp. (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Maritime Cases, Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• American Society of International Law (ASIL) (Website of the Publisher here)
• ALI CLE (formerly ALI-ABA) (Website of the Publisher here)
• Aspen Publishers/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (Website of the Publisher here)
• A.S. Pratt & Sons (now part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional) (Webpage)
• Atlantic Law Book Co. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Banks & Jordan Law Publishing Co. (Website of the Publisher here)
• BarristerBooks (Website of the Publisher here)
• Berkeley Electronic Press (Website of the Publisher here)
• Bernan (Website of the Publisher here)
• Bloomberg BNA (Website of the Publisher here)
• Bloomberg BNA Books (Website of the Publisher here)
• Bloomberg Law (Website of the Publisher here)
• Bowker – See R.R. Bowker LLC
• Cameron May Ltd (Website of the Publisher here)
• Canada Law Book, Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Carroll Publishing Company (Website of the Publisher here)
• Carswell Legal Publications (Website of the Publisher here)
• CCH/Wolters Kluwer Law & Business (Website of the Publisher here)
• CCH Canadian Limited (Website of the Publisher here)
• Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) (Website of the Publisher here)
• Claitor’s Law Books and Publishing Division (Website of the Publisher here)
• Congressional Information Service – See Proquest
• CQ Press (Website of the Publisher here)
• Daily Journal Corp. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Data Trace Publishing Co. (Website of the Publisher here)
• EBSCO (Website of the Publisher here)
• Environmental Law Institute (Website of the Publisher here)
• Euromoney Institutional Investor plc (Website of the Publisher here)
• Executive Press, Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) (Website of the Publisher here) (Store here)
• Gaunt, Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• GPO – See United States Government Printing Office
• Greenwood Publishing Group – See ABC-CLIO
• Haworth Press, Inc. (Routledge and Taylor & Francis) (Books here) (Journals here)
• Hein – See William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
• H.W. Wilson Databases (EBSCO) (Website of the Publisher here)
• IndexMaster (Website of the Publisher here)
• Informa PLC (Website of the Publisher here)
• Infosources Publishing (Website of the Publisher here)
• Irwin Law Inc.(Website of the Publisher here)
• Institutional Investor(Website of the Publisher here)
• James Publishing(Website of the Publisher here)
• John Wiley & Sons., Inc. – See Wiley
• Jones McClure Publishing (Website of the Publisher here) (Support FAQ)
• Jossey-Bass – See Wiley
• Juris Publishing (Website of the Publisher here)
• Kiplinger Washington Editors, Inc.(Website of the Publisher here)
• Kluwer Law International(Website of the Publisher here)
• Knowles Publishing(Website of the Publisher here)
• Law Journal Press (ALM)(Website of the Publisher here)
• Law360 (Website of the Publisher here)
• Law.com – See American Lawyer MediaLawCatalog.com – See American Lawyer MediaLawpress Corporation (Website of the Publisher here)
• Lawyers USA (Website of the Publisher here)
• Leadership Directories Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Legal Directories Publishing Co., Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Lexis Law Publishing(Lexis Law School Website of the Publisher here)
• LRP Publications Lexis (Jury Verdict Research)(Website of the Publisher here)
• M. Lee Smith Publishers, LLC (Website of the Publisher here)
• Martindale-Hubbell (Website of the Publisher here)
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) (Website of the Publisher here)
• National Consumer Law Center(Website of the Publisher here)
• Netsol (Bookstore)
• New England LawPress (Legal Information Buyer’s Guide & Reference Manual) (Website of the Publisher here)
• NOLO Press (Website of the Publisher here)
• O’Connor’s – See Jones McClure PublishingOceana Publications, Inc. (part of Oxford University Press)(Website of the Publisher here)
• Oxford University Press (includes Oceana Publications) (Website of the Publisher here)
• Practising Law Institute (PLI) (Website of the Publisher here)
• Practitioners Publishing Company (Thomson Reuters PPC) (Webpage here)
• Proquest LLC (Includes Chadwyck-Healey, CIS, Dialog, eLibrary, Serials Solutions, SIRS, UMI Dissertations Publishing, UMI Microfilm) (Website of the Publisher here)
• Quinlan Publishing Group (now part of Thomson West)(Website of the Publisher here)
• RIA Group (part of Thomson Reuters)(Website of the Publisher here)
• R.R. Bowker LLC(Website of the Publisher here)
• Sage Publications(Website of the Publisher here)
• Sheshunoff Information Services (now part of LexisNexis Legal & Professional)(Website of the Publisher here)
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)(Website of the Publisher here)
• (FAQSpecialty Technical Publishers(Website of the Publisher here)
• Springer Publishing Corporation(Website of the Publisher here)
• State Net (part of LexisNexis)(Website of the Publisher here)
• Strafford Publications, Inc.(Website of the Publisher here)
• Sweet & Maxwell (A Thomson Company)(Website of the Publisher here)
• Tax Analysts(Website of the Publisher here)
• Taylor and Francis Group(Website of the Publisher here)
• Thompson Publishing Group, Inc. (not affiliated with Thomson Reuters / West)(Website of the Publisher here) (Order Missing Pages or Newsletters Form
• Thomson Reuters(Website of the Publisher here) (Law Librarian Resource Center
• United Nations Publications(Website of the Publisher here) (FAQ for Librarians available here)
• United States Government Printing Office (Website of the GPO here) (Bookstore Website of the Publisher here) (Bookstore Index here)
• WG&L (part of Thomson Reuters)(Webpage
• William S. Hein & Co., Inc. (Website of the Publisher here)
• Wiley(Website of the Publisher here)
• Wolters Kluwer Law & Business(Website of the Publisher here)
• World Intellectual Property Organization(Website of the Publisher here))(Electronic Bookstore)

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See Also

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• Copyrights
• Legal Treatises
• Newspapers
• Magazines
• Periodicals
• Used Books