Peter Lang (publisher)
Peter Lang is an academic publisher specializing in the humanities and social sciences. It has its headquarters in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in Berlin, Brussels, Chennai, New York, and Oxford.[4][5]
Founded
1970, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Peter Lang
- self distributed (Switzerland)
- Libri (Germany)
- Gardners (UK)
- Baker & Taylor, GOBI Library Solutions, Ingram Content Group (US)[1]
- University of Toronto Press[2]
- China Publishers Services (Hong Kong)
- Co Info (Australia)[3]
Peter Lang publishes over 1,100 academic titles annually, both in print and digital formats, with a backlist of over 40,000 books.[6] It has its complete online journals collection available on Ingentaconnect,[5] and distributes its digital textbooks globally through Kortext.[7]
History[edit]
The company was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1970 by Swiss editor Peter Lang. Since 1982 it has an American subsidiary, Peter Lang Publishing USA, specializing in textbooks for classroom use in education,[8] media and communication, and Black studies, as well as monographs in the humanities and social sciences.[9][10]