Da Capo Press is an American
publishing company with headquarters in
Boston, Massachusetts. It is now an imprint of
Hachette Books.
History
Founded in 1964 as a publisher of music books, as a division of Plenum Publishers, it had additional offices in
New York City
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,
Philadelphia
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,
Los Angeles
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, and
Emeryville, California
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. The year prior, Da Capo Press had net sales of over $2.5 million.
Da Capo Press became a general trade publisher in the mid-1970s. It was sold to the
Perseus Books Group in 1999 after Plenum was sold to
Wolters Kluwer. In the last decade, its production has consisted of mostly nonfiction titles, both hardcover and paperback, focusing on history, music, the performing arts, sports, and popular culture. In 2003, Lifelong Books was founded as a health and wellness imprint. When
Marlowe & Company became part of the imprint in 2007, Lifelong's range was expanded to include the New Glucose Revolution series and numerous
diabetes
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titles, as well as books on healthful cooking, psychology, personal growth, and sexuality. In 2009 the company placed the science portion of the book ''Jetpack Dreams'' on the web for free.
In April 2016, Da Capo Press was acquired by the
Hachette Book Group as part of Hachette's purchase of the Perseus Books Group. After the sale, sister imprint Seal Press became a Da Capo imprint. In 2018, Da Capo became an imprint of Hachette Books and Seal became an imprint of
Basic Books.
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Book publishing companies based in Massachusetts
Companies based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Publishing companies established in 1964
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