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| Founded | 2014 |
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| Founder | Christopher McKenney |
| Headquarters location | Miami, Florida |
| Distribution | Ingram Publisher Services Raincoast Books Booktopia [1] |
| Official website | https://mangopublishinggroup.com/ |
Mango Publishing is an American book publisher founded in 2014.
Mango Publishing was founded by Christopher McKenney in 2014 as an independent book publisher in Miami, Florida. [2] In both 2019 and 2020, Mango was named the fastest growing independent publisher in the United States by Publishers Weekly . The company has a revenue sharing model with its authors, where it provides up to 50% of net sales to its writers. [3]
The company publishes books in a variety of genres including non-fiction, young adult, children, self-help, business, science, pop-culture, social justice, LGBTQ, feminism, fiction and poetry. It publishes more than one hundred titles per year. [4] It also partners with companies like Franklin Covey to create add-on books products like themed playing card decks. [3] In 2019 the company acquired Conari Press from Red Wheel/Weiser [5] and in 2020 they acquired Yellow Pear Press. [6] Their additional imprints include Books and Books Press, FIU Business Press, D.O.P.E (Dreams on Paper Entertainment), the Tiny Press, and Reef Smart Guides. [7]
HarperCollins Publishers LLC is one of the Big Five English-language publishing companies, alongside Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, Hachette, and Macmillan. The company is headquartered in New York City and is a subsidiary of News Corp. The name is a combination of several publishing firm names: Harper & Row, an American publishing company acquired in 1987—whose own name was the result of an earlier merger of Harper & Brothers and Row, Peterson & Company—together with Scottish publishing company William Collins, Sons, acquired in 1989.
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Mango Books, known as children's imprint in English, is a subset of DC Books. Mango's publications fall into every category such as fiction, children's literature, poetry, reference, classics, folktales and biographies. Mango has also licensed content to Real Reads, UK.