Red Wheel/Weiser
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1956 |
| Founder | Samuel Weiser |
| Country of origin | United States |
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| Distribution | |
| Publication types | Books |
| Nonfiction topics | New Age, occult |
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| Official website | RedWheelWeiser.com |
Red Wheel/Weiser, also known in different periods in its history as RedWheel/Weiser/Conari and Samuel Weiser, Inc., is a book publishing company with several imprints, probably the best known of which are Conari Books, Red Wheel, and Weiser Books. It is America's second-largest[citation needed] publisher of occult and New Age books, behind Llewellyn Worldwide, and is also one of the oldest American publishers to concentrate almost exclusively on that genre and adjacent ones (e.g. spirituality, as well as cryptids, conspiracy theories, and other fringe subjects). It publishes on average 60–75 new titles per year and maintains a large backlist, partly of books that it originally published, and partly of older, public-domain but scarce occult books.
Imprints
[edit | edit source]Career Press
[edit | edit source]Career Press was founded in 1985 by Ron Fry and is focused on business books. Red Wheel/Weiser acquired Career Press in 2017.[2]
Conari Books
[edit | edit source]This imprint was acquired in 2002. Before this, Conari Books had been a separate publisher, based in Berkeley, California, dating back to 1989. This imprint focuses on books that address sociology and parenting issues through a spiritual or New Age perspective. Mango Publishing acquired Conari from Red Wheel/Weiser in 2019.[3]
Disinformation Books
[edit | edit source]Disinformation Books was founded in 1997 as the publishing division of Disinformation. It was acquired by Red Wheel/Weiser in 2012.[4]
New Page Books
[edit | edit source]New Page Books was founded in 1999 as the general nonfiction imprint of Career Press.[2]
Phanes Press
[edit | edit source]Phanes Press was an independent book publisher until acquired by Red Wheel Weiser Conari in 2004. Phanes Press was founded by David Fideler[5] in 1985 and published books concerning "the spiritual, philosophical and cultural traditions of the Western world",[6] and topics ranging from "alchemy to Sufism, from Gnosticism to Neoplatonism",[5] to the traditions of the Pythagoreans.[7] The company's publications were distributed by Words Distributing Co., which had 23 publisher clients in 2000.[8]
As a so-called "micro-publisher", the company had published only 52 titles by 2004,[9] when it was purchased by the then-named Red Wheel/Weiser/Conari.[6] Reprints of Phanes titles were slated to appear under the Weiser Books imprint after the acquisition.[6]
Among Phanes's best-selling titles were The Pythagorean Sourcebook and Awakening Osiris.[6] Other titles published by Phanes included:
- Blackfoot Physics by F. David Peat[10]
- The Manual of Harmonics by Nicomachus of Gerasa[7]
- The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance by Joscelyn Godwin[11]
- The Voice of the Earth by Theodore Roszak[12]
Red Wheel
[edit | edit source]Red Wheel was started in 2000 as a Weiser imprint for spiritually oriented and occult self-help and how-to books, and at that time the company name was changed from Samuel Weiser, Inc., to RedWheel/Weiser, with several other variations used, including Weiser, Inc.
Turning Stone Press
[edit | edit source]Turning Stone was launched in 2012. It is a self-publishing imprint, in collaboration with Hampton Roads Publishing and Hierophant Publishing.[13]
Weiser Books
[edit | edit source]This main imprint is also the oldest. It was founded as Samuel Weiser, Inc., in 1956, a time when few other publishers were willing to tackle occult subjects, and was originally an offshoot of the New York City retailer Weiser Antiquarian Books. This imprint publishes the backlist and continues to acquire books on occultism, astrology, esoteric subjects, Eastern religions, Wicca, and related topics.
Location
[edit | edit source]After New York, the company was located in Boston, Massachusetts, and then in York Beach, Maine, for most of its history. In 2006, the editorial department moved to San Francisco, California, and the sales and marketing department moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts.
Famous authors
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[edit | edit source]- ^ Red Wheel/Weiser Featuring Conari Press and Hampton Roads New Titles and Best-Selling Backlist, Fall 2017
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References
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External links
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