Disney Publishing Worldwide

Disney Publishing Worldwide
Disney Publishing Worldwide
Type Subsidiary of Walt Disney Consumer Products (Disney)
Industry Publishing
Headquarters White Plains, New York, Glendale, California,
Key people R. Russell Hampton, Jr., President, Walt Disney Publishing Worldwide
Parent The Walt Disney Company
Website disneybooks.disney.go.com

Disney Publishing Worldwide is the publishing group controlled by The Walt Disney Company. Its imprints include Disney Editions, Hyperion Books for Children and Disney Press. Through this group, Disney gets the royalties for any kind of licensed publication. The current President is R. Russell Hampton Jr..

DPW's five areas of revenue are Global Magazines, Global Books, Disney Digital Books, U.S. Magazines and Disney English.[1]

Disney Book Group (DBG) is a leading U.S. publisher of children's books. With an extensive catalog that encompasses both in-house and licensed publishing imprints, DBG offers a variety of formats including novelty, story, reader, chapter, sound, graphic novel and coloring/activity books. Moreover, DBG publishes fiction, non-fiction, bilingual, educational and direct-to-mail titles.

DBG is part of Disney Publishing Worldwide (DPW), the world's largest publisher of children’s books and magazines with 441 children's magazines published and 120 million children's books sold each year. Headquartered in New York, DPW publishes books and magazines in 85 languages in 75 countries, reaching more than 100 million readers each month.

Disney Publishing Worldwide is also responsible for publishing FamilyFun magazine, which was started in 1991, and Wondertime magazine, which launched in 2006. Wondertime was shut down in March 2009.

There will be a new manga distributing arm of Disney Publishing Worldwide which will be called Disney Hyperion Manga that will be the next to publish and distribute Disney manga as well as Cine-manga adaptations in the United States after Tokyopop and publish and distribute Studio Ghibli books, manga and ani-manga after Viz Media.

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