Ten Speed Press

History

Founder Phil Wood worked with Barnes & Noble in 1962, Penguin Books in 1965, and had a senior sales position at Penguin Books in Baltimore and New York before founding Ten Speed Press in 1971.

Ten Speed's first book was Tom Cuthbertson's Anybody's Bike Book, which is still in print. It inspired the publisher's name and has sold more than a million copies.

In 1983, Ten Speed acquired Celestial Arts (Millbrae, CA), "founded in the late 1960s as a printer of rock music posters," from Gary Kurtz, a Star Wars producer.

In 2002, the company acquired Crossing Press, a publisher specializing in metaphysics, alternative lifestyles, and healing.

By 2009, the company published under its four imprints — Ten Speed Press, Celestial Arts, Crossing Press, and Tricycle Press — more than 100 new hardcovers and trade paperbacks annually, and had a backlist of more than 1,000 active titles.

Ten Speed Press was bought by Random House in February 2009 and became part of their Crown Publishing Group division. Founder Phil Wood died of cancer in December 2010.

Watson-Guptill became an imprint of Ten Speed Press under Random House in 2013, part of their Crown Publishing Group.

Tricycle Press

Tricycle Press was the children's imprint of Ten Speed Press, which published the Amelia's Notebooks series, among others. Tricycle also published Who's in a Family? in 1997 and King & King in 2002, books that addressed different types of families, including those headed by gay parents. The imprint ceased publishing new books in 2011.

References

References

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2. (23 March 1986). "Big Books from Small Houses". The New York Times.
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10. (1998). "Anybody's Bike Book". Ten Speed Press.
11. (21 January 1979). "PAPERBACK TALK". The New York Times.
12. (Summer 1979). ["Star Wars money buys Celestial Arts"](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/luminist/FZ/STA_1979_2.pdf).
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14. Plaume, Ken. "From the Vault: An interview with Gary Kurtz". Fred Entertainment.
15. (1981). "Walt Disney's Uncle Scrooge McDuck: His Life & Times". Celestial Arts.
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17. (2010-12-14). "A Tribute to Phil Wood". Ten Speed Press.
18. "Crown Shifts Watson-Guptill, Amphoto, Potter Craft". Publishers Weekly.
19. (28 May 2015). "Berkeley author Marissa Moss says goodby to Amelia, a character that has delighted readers for 20 years". Berkeleyside.
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21. (17 November 2010). "Random House to Shutter Tricycle Press". Publishers Weekly.
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