16 Facts About Skyhorse Publishing

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Skyhorse Publishing, Inc is an American independent book publishing company founded in 2006 and headquartered in New York City, with a satellite office in Brattleboro, Vermont.

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In 2010, Skyhorse acquired Arcade Publishing with its portfolio of 500 titles, as well as another 300 titles through the acquisition of Allworth Press.

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Skyhorse Publishing added 250 new titles to its catalog with its acquisition of science-fiction and fantasy publisher Night Shade Books in 2013.

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In 2014, Skyhorse Publishing partnered with Perseus Books Group to acquire the assets of Good Books.

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5.

Skyhorse Publishing launched the new imprint Arcade CrimeWise to publish crime fiction, mysteries, noir, thrillers, and spy novels.

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Skyhorse Publishing had revenue of more than $43 million in 2015 and a backlist of 6,000 titles.

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In June 2017, a group of Skyhorse Publishing employees announced intentions to hold a union election in order to join United Auto Workers Local 2110.

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On March 23,2020, Skyhorse Publishing announced that it had acquired and released the memoir Apropos of Nothing by Woody Allen through its Arcade imprint.

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On September 16,2016, Skyhorse Publishing released the official motion picture tie-in book Snowden, timed to the release of the Oliver Stone film by the same name.

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Sky Pony, the children's book imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a line of unofficial Hacks for Minecrafters books, and a series of original, unofficial novels.

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On May 17,2021, Skyhorse Publishing announced that it would release Blake Bailey's biography of Philip Roth, Philip Roth: The Biography.

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On November 16,2021, Skyhorse published the New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and Amazon bestseller The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health by Robert F Kennedy Jr.

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Skyhorse Publishing was reported to have invested $1 million on acquisition, printing and marketing for the publication of eight new books on the subject in 2013; as well as $300,000 to $400,000 on the reprints of seventeen others.

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Authors on the subject published or re-published by Skyhorse Publishing include Richard Belzer, Gaeton Fonzi, Jim Garrison Mark Lane, Peter Dale Scott, Roger Stone, Jesse Ventura, and Harold Weisberg.

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Skyhorse Publishing has been criticised as a toxic workplace, and for printing books containing conspiracy theories.

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In 2013, the Southern Poverty Law Center chided Skyhorse Publishing for allowing the American Free Press, whom they described as "an anti-Semitic periodical run by long-time Holocaust denier Willis Carto", to sell two of Belzer's books co-written with journalist David Wayne, Dead Wrong and Hit List.

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