Dorchester Publishing

Dorchester Publishing

Founded	1971
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Publication types	Books, Magazines
Fiction genres	Romance, Horror, Western
Imprints	Leisure, Love Spell
Official website	dorchesterpub.com

Dorchester Publishing is a publisher of mass market paperback books. Although mostly known for romance, Dorchester also publishes horror, thriller and Western titles.

Publication lines

Dorchester was the original publisher of the Hard Case Crime line of pulp-style mysteries. In addition, Dorchester distributes the Family Doctor series of health guides in the U.S. and Canada. Their Love Spell imprint handles the newer types of romance, and complements their more traditional Leisure Books imprint. They also have an imprint for thrillers, the Smooch imprint for young adult literature, and Making It for trade paperback chick-lit novels.

Dorchester also publishes romance magazines such as True Confessions and True Story. Dorchester offers book clubs, fan registries, and a comprehensive website for readers. Dorchester books are featured in their "Dear Reader Book Clubs", which allows readers to read a chapter a day from the book for a week.

History

Dorchester Publishing was founded in 1971, and claim to be the oldest independent mass market publisher in America.^[1]

They added the Love Spell imprint in 1993, and new thriller and young adult imprints in 2003. In 2004, they launched their trade paperback chick-lit imprint Making It, and with Charles Ardai they co-founded the Hard Case Crime imprint.

Also in 2004, Dorchester purchased magazine publisher Sterling/MacFadden, acquiring with it several romance magazines.

In August 2010, after two years of big drops in sales, Dorchester announced a temporary shift from printing books on paper to e-books and print-on-demand services.^[1][2][3] At the same time, they announced that they would be setting new royalty rates for their authors. However, in October 2010, the Mystery Writers of America removed Dorchester from their list of Approved Publishers citing failure to pay authors their advances and royalties.^[4] In November, Dorchester's former CEO, John Prebich, resigned and was replaced by Robert Anthony; Anthony promised that his first step would be to review the publisher's royalty process.^[5] In October 2010, Dorchester announced that publication of the Hard Case Crime imprint would be transferred from Dorchester to Titan Books,^[6] and in January and February 2011, Dorchester offered to sell off the names of several of its discontinued magazines.^[7] In March 2011, horror author Brian Keene announced a boycott of Dorchester over claims that it was still not paying its authors and that it had sold books to which it did not own the sales rights; Keene was joined by dozens of other authors, editors, artists, and organizations.^[8] Dorchester responded by promising to suppress sales of reverted books and to pay its authors what they are owed.^[9]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Cheng, Jacqui (August 11, 2010), "Mass Romance Novel Publisher Going All In On E-Books", Wired, http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/08/mass-romance-novel-publisher-going-all-in-on-e-books/ .
2. ^ Milliot, Jim (August 6, 2010), "Dorchester Drops Mass Market Publishing for E-Book/POD Model", Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/44085-dorchester-drops-mass-market-publishing-for-e-book-pod-model.html .
3. ^ Deahl, Rachel (August 11, 2010), "Confusion, Backtracking at Dorchester After 'All Digital' Headlines", Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/44131-confusion-backtracking-at-dorchester-after-all-digital-headlines.html .
4. ^ Boog, Jason (October 28, 2010), Dorchester Publishing De-Listed by Mystery Writers of America, GalleyCat, http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/dorchester-publishing-de-listed-by-mystery-writers-of-america_b15390 .
5. ^ Deahl, Rachel; Milliot, Jim (November 16, 2010), "Dorchester Hires New CEO; Sets New Plan", Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/45199-dorchester-hires-new-ceo-sets-new-plan.html .
6. ^ Boog, Jason (October 20, 2010), Hard Case Crime to Relaunch with Titan Publishing, GalleyCat, http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/hard-case-crime-titan-publishing_b14592 .
7. ^ Botelho, Stefanie (February 8, 2011), "Dorchester Media Puts Entertainment, Select Romance Mag Assets on the Block", Folio, http://www.foliomag.com/2011/dorchester-media-puts-entertainment-select-romance-mag-assets-block .
8. ^ Boog, Jason (March 25, 2011), Dorchester Publishing Boycott Launched, GalleyCat, http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/dorchester-boycott-publishing-boycott-launched_b26375 .
9. ^ Milliot, Jim (March 29, 2011), "Dorchester Promises to Do Right by Authors", Publishers Weekly, http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/publisher-news/article/46657-dorchester-promises-to-do-right-by-authors.html .

External links

• Official website

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