The Globe Pequot Publishing Group


The Globe Pequot Publishing Group is an American independent book publishing company founded in 1949. Under several imprints, the company offers various regional and interest books in the trade books publishing. The company also owns the book distributor National Book Network based in Lanham, Maryland.

History

The current company took shape when the University Press of America acquired Rowman & Littlefield in 1988 and took the Rowman & Littlefield name for the holding company.
Since 2013, there has also been an affiliated company based in London called Rowman & Littlefield International. It is editorially independent and publishes only academic books in Philosophy, Politics & International Relations and Cultural Studies.
Rowman & Littlefield acquired Globe Pequot Press in 2014.
The company sponsors the Rowman & Littlefield Award in Innovative Teaching, the only national teaching award in political science given in the United States. It is awarded annually by the American Political Science Association for people whose innovations have advanced political science pedagogy.
On May 29, 2024, Rowman & Littlefield sold its academic and professional publishing business to Bloomsbury Publishing. The sale excluded most of trade publishing business under Globe Pequot, school publishing business Sundance Newbridge, and book distributor National Book Network. As the Rowman & Littlefield name and trademark were included in the sale, the holding company subsequently changed its name to The Globe Pequot Publishing Group, taking its name from one of its trade publishing imprints which the company retained.
The Globe Pequot Publishing Group later sold Sundance Newbridge to Lerner Publishing in September 2024. The company announced that National Book Network will be closed down, with distribution of titles moved to Simon & Schuster Distribution Services in the second half of 2025.

Imprints

Current imprints

  • Astragal Press
  • Globe Pequot Press
  • Down East Books
  • Eclipse Press
  • Falcon Guides
  • Gooseberry Patch
  • Lyons Press
  • Muddy Boots
  • North Country Press
  • Pineapple Press
  • Riverbend Publishing
  • Sheridan House
  • Stackpole Books
  • Union Park Press
  • Waterford Press
  • Northland Publishing backlist
  • including Rising Moon and Luna Rising imprints
  • TwoDot Books
  • Prometheus Books

    Former imprints

Imprints formerly published by Rowman & Littlefield include:
  • Lexington Books
  • Applause Books
  • Applause Theatre & Cinema Books
  • Backbeat Books
  • Bernan Press
  • Hal Leonard Books
  • Amadeus Books
  • Limelight Editions
  • Jason Aronson
  • Rowman & Littlefield Education or R&L Education
  • Rowman & Littlefield
  • Philip Turner Books
  • Alban
  • AltaMira Press
  • Ardsley House Publishers, Inc.
  • Bonus Books
  • Bridge Works
  • Cooper Square Press
  • Cowley Publications
  • The Derrydale Press
  • General Hall
  • Government Institutes
  • Hamilton Books
  • Ivan R. Dee
  • M. Evans
  • Madison Books
  • Madison House Publishers
  • Newbridge Educational Publishing
  • Northword Books for Young Readers
  • Roberts Rinehart
  • Scarecrow Press
  • Sheed & Ward
  • SR Books
  • Sundance Publishing
  • Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Two-Can Publishing
  • University Press of America
  • The World Today Series

    Distribution

  • Bucknell University Press
  • Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
  • Lehigh University Press
  • University of Delaware Press
  • Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
  • C&T Publishing